MANY thanks for your excellent feature ‘Woodhead Remembered’ (July issue), which brought back many memories for me. Up to the age of 21, I lived in Worsborough Bridge and the former Great Central Worsborough branch was our railway.
The branch never had a passenger service and was a ‘coal’ railway throughout its existence. However, there was a goods shed and a couple of sidings, situated between Glasshouse and Worsborough Bridge level crossings, and there was a passenger excursion for a number of years. Barrow Colliery WMC organised an annual club trip to the seaside, which initially utilised motor coaches. This trip was very popular locally and I think they had problems sourcing enough coaches, so around the mid-1950s they changed to travelling by railway.