Author	Message / Information
russlynch	Langley Mill Railway Crossings replied on: 2/11/2006 6:36:23 PM speaking of the crossing which i only remember as the 'duram ox crossing'.When I was about three or four years old I constantly would nag my older brother to take me to his den which was near harrys pond (just up the line behind the duram ox pub).I remember I was amazed that my bro and his mates had got an old 'pump' truck on the lines and would race it flat out up and down the track when no coal trains were running on sundays.This was all great fun til my uncle saw us crossing cromford rd on the thing one sunday afternoon,I remember my mum going mad at my brother about it saying "its a good job our russell wasn't with ya" what little did she know :-) lucky for me my uncle was a little worse for wear that day on his way home from the Top house and never saw me,only my brother.This was about 1981 shortly atfer this some sections of the track were removed near the crossing presumably as the line was no longer in use and it also helped stop my bro getting nicked for playin train drivers!!
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Langley Mill Railway Crossings replied on: 6/13/2005 1:54:03 PM Between the REC AND THE FLOUR MILL CROSSING was a set of points which turned wagons into a very small siding to deliver goods to the back of CO-OP WAREHOUSE situated on Dean Street
suzard Researcher	Langley Mill Railway Crossings replied on: 6/13/2005 10:12:33 AM Robert, the line to the Flour Mill didn't have a gate-the one to the Coal Wharf did.Thanks for info -I was talking to someone on Friday who wouldn't believe there were railway crossings on Cromford Rd-strange thing is I didn't realise they had gone until then!
Peter Chamberlain Researcher	Langley Mill Railway Crossings replied on: 6/13/2005 6:07:31 AM My next door neighbour ran the Coal Wharf for many years he opened and closed the gates and weighed the coal merchants trucks in and out of the site his name was MR E SKINNER he would be retired around 1950s he always claimed he went to school with D H Lawrence at Beauvale.
RMMee Moderator	Langley Mill Railway Crossings replied on: 6/13/2005 5:29:25 AM The line to Smith's Flour Mill (did that have a gate?) closed down some time before the colliery line. I reckon the colliery line was definitely still going in the 70's. Did it stay open till Moorgreen shut, in which case that would be mid-80's?
suzard Researcher	Langley Mill Railway Crossings replied on: 6/12/2005 7:55:01 PM On Cromford Road there used to be 2 railway crossings-one by the Flour Mill and one near the Coal Wharf-I remember on my way to Aldercar Infants school very often we had to wait for the train going by-someone used to close the crossing gate (only a gate on one side of the track)-does anyone know when theses crossings ceased to be-or any more info ?

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