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In my time on the railways, we worked into the Eastern End of the MSW, eg Wath, Penistone, and the areas round Barnsely that were near to the MSW. This was Dodworth Pit, and Silkstone Jct up to Barnsley Jct. at Penistone.
Tinsley men woud have gone from one end of this line to the other doing ballast turns and sharing the electric work with Wath/Guide Bridge crews.
Alas a couple of years after I went on BR, this line was closed over the Pennines.
All the pits HM men serviced were gone and shut after 1985.
All the railway was brand new in and around Barnsley. A good judge of a fully relaid formation is a lack of rubbish in the drains adjacent to the track.
Not one supermarket trolley or bike frame did we find when pulling out this railway.
I'm told that to lay CWR and deep dig a formaton was £1m per track mile.
A crimminal waste of money.
Last edited by HM181; 7th January 2011 at 09:00.
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