Disused Railway Walk - LD&ECR Beighton Branch Creswell to Langwith Junction

A disused railway walk down the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) from Creswell to Langwith Junction down the Archaeological Way.

The LDECR Beighton Branch opened from 1897 and was a 12 mile link from the main LDECR to Sheffield.

**Links to prev videos**
Part 1 Beighton to Killamarsh -    • Disused Railway Walk Killamarsh - Bei...  
Part 2 Killamarsh to Spinkhill -    • Disused Railway Explore - Killamarsh ...  
Part 3 Clowne -    • Clowne Derbyshire Disused Railway His...  
Part 4 Clowne to Creswell -    • Disused Railway Explore - LD&ECR Beig...  

In previous parts, we saw the sections from Beighton Junction, Killamarsh, Spinkhill Tunnel and Clowne. We start this explore from the site of the former Creswell for Welbeck station, which closed in 1939. The lost railway line headed out past Creswell Colliery towards Langwith Colliery. This section was closed in 1967 due to duplicate alignment with other lines, the coming of the M1 motorway severing the line and the poor state of the Markland Grips viaduct.

We lose the line for a while as this has been turned to private land. However we pick it up again near Langwith Colliery Junction and the new chord constructed in 1967 to divert traffic from the southern end of the line to the Robin Hood Line. This only lasted until 1974.

At Langwith Colliery Junction we can see ruins of the old trackbeds, signal box and tin hut. We take a look at the Colliery line, which ends as it crosses the Robin Hood Line due to a demolished bridge.

The LDECR Beighton Branch now disappears underneath Poulter Country Park, which was the spoil tip for Langwith Colliery. However we pick it up again at Nether Lagwith with half of a bridge still standing on one side of the road.

The final section of the former line starts on an embarkment before entering an imposing limestone cutting on the approach to Langwith Junction station.

The site of the station is now a housing estate. It opened in 1897 but closed in 1955. It was renamed Shirebrook North in 1924.

Later, the LDECR was bought by the GCR (Great Central Railway) and later LNER. The Beighton branch was closed by 1974 north of Langwith Junction.

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