Due to someone else walking on the line recently and a conversation we have had.  I have been bought back to this blog.

It's been an age since I wrote on here, since the last post I have done pretty much the rest of the line I needed to do.

I followed it from Langwith to Marnham where it was still in use then actually cycled rather than walked from Skellingthorpe to Marnham over the Viaduct.

I do have pictures of all the walks I have done since and will upload them next week (honest)  I will also do an overview of pictures too.

The last part of the walk was planned for this summer, Skellingthorpe to Pyewipe Inn as a family walk where I could get a pint to celebrate finishing.

If anyone is still out there reading this I'll let you know when I'm done :)

From Frithwood Farm to Creswell Station

This is the first part of the line that I attempted to walk.  Having grown up in Creswell I wanted to start here.

Distance Walked - 0.65 miles

Most of the walk was on the old trackbed with deviations where housing has been built.

Walking from Frithwood Farm towards Creswell the track has been taken over by the Sustrans Trail organisation. This and the closure of Creswell Colliery in 1991 means that the line has been filled in and mostly sanitised with new tree plantations and a nice little footpath to walk along.

Immediately after Frithwood Farm we come across possible railway sleepers, These are on the side away from the Colliery and even closer to Creswell is the remains of an old bridge facing onto the track bed.

The Sustrans Trail stops following the track bed when it reaches the housing development on Elmton Close and across the Main Road on Bank Close. On these 2 roads there is no trace of the railway at all with a signal box being lost on Elmton Close and of course more importantly Creswell Station being lost on Bank Close.

Housing now stands where the station once stood and how I regret not exploring more in my younger days when something may have lingered.