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myke
22-06-2011, 08:32 PM
After the closure of Ledston Luck colliery in 1986([ url]http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/13127-Ledston-Luck-Mine-Castleford-April-11?highlight=ledston+peckfield[/url] )The light railway 2’ 6” gauge that run to Pecfield transporting the coal was no longer needed .
I can remember steam trains running there as a child and decided to see what remains of the railway which run parallel to the A656 and under the A63 roundabout.
The trackbed is easily visable as a row of trees on google earth and after scrambling through brambles found the ledston side just after the ledston industrial estate
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04141649.jpg
The trackbed gets gradually deeper until you hit the blocked tunnel portal
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04142551.jpg
Numbers on portalhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04142814.jpg
Two 6” Victaulic pipes capped off enter the tunnel base
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04142739.jpg
Tunnel portal at peckfield end
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04150455.jpg
Now theres a deep limestone cutting
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04150855.jpg
One of the two track plates found
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04160049.jpg
Wooden sleepers still buried
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04154138.jpg
Water pipes over head
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04151309.jpg
Bridge to a local farm filled with junk
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04153436.jpg
Trackplate complete with 2 dog nails
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04153048.jpg
Brick structure as trackbed disappears at peckfield
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/2011-06-04160114.jpg
After this the trackbed disappeared under piles of pit rubble more pictures on my photobucket if you can face anymore
http://feedmg.photobucket.com/albums/v153/mykey/ledston%20to%20pecfield%202%206%20railway/feed.rss

rikj
23-06-2011, 09:31 AM
That's a cracker. Bet not many people know that's there.

Suspect there are a few more colliery tramway tunnels to be unearthed.

TK421
24-06-2011, 11:29 PM
Love it, what a good find