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Great video James looks like you had a great day out loads of cool layouts n locos n stuff to see. 🙂👍

No expense was spared on the building of the G.C., with waterproof blue bricks being employed virtually everywhere. When I lived in Hucknall, I could see that the locals had helped themselves to the remains of an overbridge close to where Hucknall Central Station once was!!

It was a blessing that the Stanford viaduct was left intact, or the extension would have been impossible!! 🤔

I've just read an article that the bridge is scheduled to be lifted into place on Oct 10th.

Thanks Jon I now have some bucket items to see when I next go to Ontario

Interesting video Jon That wooden bridge is probably original as there is a rail base plate visible in the video That little loco doing 35 mph bet that was rough, and originally had petrol engines

The Tesco building use to be a good pub twenty years ago called the The Quay. Some great Sunday afternoons in there.

Im enjoying Jons mini series on Canadas disused railways! I watch a lot of American railroad channels but not Canada, this has peaked an interest in Canadian rsilroads. ❤😊👍

6.40 the cut in with stones at the side you said you never expected to see. I imagine this is beautiful this time of year. Where is this please??

The house at 12 minutes in was the mine bosses house with its own mine entrance.

Great video again in the series. Wasn’t it the same government in power at the time who also wanted to close the settle to Carlisle route ? Shame the same people who saved that didn’t get involved with the Woodhead.

Thank you for this Just saw it 3 years late but fascinating information to me anyway Grade 2 site turned into a right old dive Such a shame it’s so important 👍👍

The air shaft visible on the moors are for the 2 early tunnels one shaft served both tunnels i worked in the tunnels in the nineties relining the roof in the first tunnel access was from the second tunnel which had the HV cables they were cross over passages every 200 yards approx. We had a paddy train which went most of the way the tracks are still visible today I have walked the full length of both tunnels and you could see the other end from the start interesting working there the roof was still covered in soot

If I remember correctly, they used one older bore for cables and the other for maintenance access with a narrow gauge railway. I think this has vanished too. There is a cab ride video of the Woodhead route here on RUclips.

Great video me and a couple of mates walked through the new tunnel about five months after closure ,all that was then over the portals was that plastic orange fencing lol

Brick-built structure with iron door and very sturdy locks make me think it could be an explosive store, pretty sure they would have done blasting in the construction

According to British Rail - Gradient Profiles Ian Allen, Profile M18 Woodhead was 1:201

I hope people realise just how much climbing and trecking you did to bring us this superb video .

That plato near the red building is rubble from tunnel construction , we walked it's circumference with bikes looking for a place to camp , well done on getting to that surviving shaft , it looks so close but glad we didn't try to get to it.

The navigation pillars look like survaying points to get the correct line of the tunnel during construction .

If you take the path at the gate near where windle edge meets the woodhead road there is a red brick building with solid metal blast doors by the side of the path which could have been some sort of explosive store ( note to self completely watch video before commenting as its on your video lol)

The stanhope arms at dunford bridge now a private residence will soon open for food and camping pods and normal camping in 2025 it has just been announced .

Nice suprise this one , i did a cycle wild camp on top of thr new tunnel a few weeks ago , cycled from stairfoot and up the fearsome windle edge then onto the moors , could see the ventilation shafts but we stayed on the path over the new tunnel .

There’s a green portage on at Renishaw end now too so guessing they are starting on the canal soon

The old bores could be reopened and amalgamated into one double track tunnel I think. All it would take is £££ and a lot of manpower and machinery!

I still can't get over Paul this line was closed! Criminal. Trans pennine is a major link in this country for passengers & freight. It would have been viable surely in todays climate to have this tunnel open. Everytime ive got on a teain to Manchester its packed & coming home its been standing room only. Then when driving across that woodhead pass is not suitable for the amount of traffic with huge lorries & cars bombing round the country lanes then in winter its closed too often. Cant believe tunnels are now just huge cables carrying for the electricity board, im just glad ive been lucky enough & be old enough to have seen trains come out of the new tunnel befire 1981. Fab video Paul. & Jon! ❤❤😊👍

The posts early concrete stands with the metal tops would be the hill top sightline and height datums for the building of shafts (later ventilation shafts). Interesting is the concrete which looks like a roman mix with rounded river stone aggregates.(Portland cement industrial process only invented in 1824} I was thinking when you where down by the road you would be looking at the water drainage tunnel crossing under the road, tunnel 3 on the older map?

Very interesting video Paul, I last explored up there in 2003 the air shaft with the 76 mural on was still there. There was a cracking pub at Dunford Bridge back then we stayed in a motor home and they let us park overnight in carpark On your drone footage at Dunford Bridge you can see 2ft gauge track and this was put in when the cables were in the old tunnel. On our visit a train cane out of the site to meet a delivery lorry I do wonder if the stock is still on site though I can't imagine it's used anymore

You say on this vid you've got a few things in the pipeline, care to explain what they are? 😄

one of the older tunnels had a signal box inside it, about halfway through. It must have been a 'delight' to work in.

Great vid again. The surveyors would have been back and forth over the area where you walked trying to get the surveying stations on the line between the chosen ends of the tunnel in a straight line by getting them moved to be directly between the sighting points either side of them. It would have been an iterative process as each move to a more accurate location would ripple out. With the line was eventually surveyed dead straight over the three miles, they then had to take vertical levels and exactly horizontal distances to calculate the orientation and vertical angle of slope between the two ends They had to note the horizontal distances to the shafts and then had to work out the depths of the shafts to the slope of the tunnel floor and measure those down. They then had to sight both those angles horizontal and vertical from both ends to put the pilot bore through. It's quicker to just follow a pilot bore with the main bore. The first sighting point would have been on the hillside opposite so they could sight over as much moor as possible. It's a shame there is no tunneling museum allowing you to look through the instruments. You only walked it once, they must have needed a heard of mountain ponies for going back and forth. The "woodhead" reservoir chain was being constructed at a similar time - much of that project was further west in Manchester - but it was the world's biggest exercise of its kind - so that area must have been a global centre of civil engineering with many of the world's top engineers visiting.

Loved travelling on that line from Sheffield to Leeds. I believe the 7.06am train was one of the last steam services in the 60's [usually hauled by a Black 5] together with one that ran to Chinley. Visited Royston MPD, Normanton MPD and Leeds Holbeck MPD officially on a Saturday in the Sixties with a railway society. Great memories of a once beautiful line, especially around Cudworth Station which I visited took photographs of and bought tickets from. Thank You for the video, though it was rather sad!

Another fantastic watch on a Friday night just keep them coming top man👍

I can just remember trains running through there just before the line must have closed it’s a amazing area

I went from Oughtibridge to Penistone by train from 1952-59 (forms 2A-5A, Lowe 6th, Upper 6th, 3d yr 6th at PGS), so they must have been working in tunnel 5 for the early part of that. I then went to Manchester University, from 59 to 62. (Man U and Sheff. Wed had good teams back then, so two of us went to most of their home games) on the saturdays. So I went through tunnel 3 many times from Manchester to Sheffield Victoria station, now gone. I also remember the switch from steam to electric, the final shutting down of the line to passenger traffic.

Woodhead 1 and 2 were nick named the hell holes by the train crew's . thank you for the vlog

I wonder what the men who built the new tunnel thought when it was discarded in 1981 🤔

thanks for that film. just remember the electrics at Wath and Reddish but not the tunnel. caroline

I recall a proposal in the mid-2000s to build an intermodal marshaling yard near Hattersley that could've seen the line reopen, alas, National Grid scuppered that plan.

Many thanks for a brilliant vid 👍🏻

Great video, really enjoyed that, I didn’t know much about this light railway, it looks a nice afternoons cycle ride out. It looks like it served very sparsely populated villages that are still not much bigger even in 2024, I can see that once the milk traffic ended then there was very little to keep the line open. Lovely countryside and a well maintained path, I was suprised to see cars and bikes on it but I imagine that’s only on part of it. Thanks again wobbly cyclist.😁

Very enjoyable. I knew nothing about Canadian railways before this. I wonder if the engine gets moved inside in winter, as it looks in decent condition.

just found your channel, we used to swim back in the 70s in both these reservoirs there is also one that lies between these two that people still swim in today.

You want ‘insulators’ there are hundreds in the cess along the GSM’s between Kettering North and Corby.

Great video Jon I've been to Canada a few times many years ago. Great to see the roundhouse has become a museum. Last time saw it was in 92 and was derelict. The time before that was 82 and it was still working full of diesels The black object infront of the boxcar is a switch stand its their equivalent of our point lever Seeing all those level crossings or grade crossings as they call them mde me think of all the noise from horns that would have happened. They don't stop over there even when no lights . They have a sequence of blasts, two long a short then a long held until the loco clears the crossing..... fantastic!

the cuttings you went through near longcliffe were unbelievably filled top to bottom with snow in 1947 ...😮😮italian prisoners of war were sent to dig them out ..they thought they`d reached track level when they hit metal..but it was the top of a telegraph pole 😑😑🤣🤣took em weeks to dig it out

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When i was 12 to 15 i used to come to leicester via the train from malton to york to the old station in your video in the late 1950s i stayed with my aunt and uncle for 5 weeks during the school Hollidays they lived in Harding Street on frog island very near the railway line which went over a large bridge pretty close to the house. I used to walk down the canal path to filbert street to city play saw the busby babes pre munich. Loved it plus the speedway at blackbird road and Abbey Park not far away. I loved it great place then.