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The Old Penny Engine Railway near Eckington


Paolo Coopio

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A few weeks ago I investigated what remained of the Penny Engine Railway. A long gone colliery line that ran from Renishaw into the heart of Eckington Woods.

This was part of the old Plumbley colliery collection of shafts that the locals might recognise as the Seldom Seen Engine House. 

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As a sometime Eckingtonian I ( and my dog)often explored the whole of Moss  Valley. The  whole area is one of early industrialisation...Penny Engine line, I understand, eventually met up with the  mainline....but I never found the actual site.

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4 hours ago, Lysanderix said:

As a sometime Eckingtonian I ( and my dog)often explored the whole of Moss  Valley. The  whole area is one of early industrialisation...Penny Engine line, I understand, eventually met up with the  mainline....but I never found the actual site.

Yeah there's not really any obvious evidence left now. But it met the main line just north of the bridge over the railway next to the golf club. 

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5 hours ago, Paolo Coopio said:

Yeah there's not really any obvious evidence left now. But it met the main line just north of the bridge over the railway next to the golf club. 

And just south of the bridge over the River Rother. Take a look at the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced maps.

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Had a nostalgia visit to Eckington area with 3 of my brothers in 2017 and did a walk in Eckington Woods and across Renishaw Golf Course.

There's still quite a lot of evidence of the Penny Engine Line!

Bridge on Littlemoor: https://goo.gl/maps/XC7BAFhVhEh5Ba7G7

Bridge on Church Street https://goo.gl/maps/MVUzMzjhk3mNRUkj9

The Embankment from Renishaw through golf course was always very clear with the section between the path to Birley Farm and the path to Killamarsh a well used track; although I notice it is not marked as a public right of way on the map.

The embankment along the bottom of Parrow Bank from near to the mill to the mine is still a well used track.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1120796

When I was at Camms School and aged about 10 or 11 I once climbing over the wall into the cutting from Church Street with a friend or two and we tried to walk along towards Littlemoor but we were shouted at by someone from one of the houses on Peveril Road and we beat a hasty retreat.

The railway track had all been removed by then and the cutting was quite overgrown.

 

 

 

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