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The Dove Valley Trail.
Yes, it was hard and miserable working a million hours in harsh conditions as the underground miners worked the maze of mines below the cycle trail. Lucrative coal faces, lives lost and children picking away at the coalfaces, the story boards along this section tell of the devastation of some of the disasters both inside the darkened tunnels and above the coal faces. Memorials to children and older miners commemorate the people who spent part of their lives here are everywhere and we quietly respect it down the Trail.
Shortly after the Dove Valley the Trans Pennine Trail takes its leave of the many miles of disused railway lines used so far and it's kind of refreshing to leave the railways now as the route uses canals and quiet country lanes towards Doncaster and then north-eastwards to Hull.
Pollution
Link from Penistone to Silkstone Common
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Storyboard.
On 16 July 1884, the 12:30 pm express traveling from Manchester derailed at Bullhead curve just past Hazlehead. The locomotive and attached horses ground to a stand still next to the rail, but the coaches behind the horsebox broke and careered down a 40 ft embankment crashing to a halt in the field and lane at the bottom. Twenty four people were killed in the disaster.
