Dinting Railway Centre - Abandoned Railway Yard & Shed
We take a tour of the disused site including the engine shed, disused platform, old railway and the minature railway. Once a hive for railway enthusiasts and trainspotters.
The engine shed itself was built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolsnire Railway (later known as the Great Central Railway). The shed was completed in 1898. Dinting sits at the western end of the Woodhead line running from east to west over the Pennines. Dinting is on the triangle on what was well known as the Woodhead line, just at it’s junction with the spur to glossop.
The shed sat derelict after 1954, which is around the time that the Woodhead line became electrified.
It gained a new lease of life after the arrival of the Dinting Railway Centre in the late 1960s. The centre was run by the Bahamas Locomotive Society and had a tidy little set up with steam locomotives running up and down the yard giving footplate rides and trips in the guards vans. But for various reasons including disputes with the land owners, the centre closed in 1990.
We look around the abandoned station buildings from one of the former platforms at Dinting Railway Station, now in a sorry state of repair. Next door to this are the old platforms that the steam trains ran from.
Finally behind the engine shed is a raised area where we find the remains of the minature railway.
Snippets taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=posHSXTL4qE&t=424s&ab_channel=BahamasLocomotiveSociety - The Dinting Railway Centre 1976 to 1980 by Bahamas Locomotive Society
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