Amazing organizational culture. In Poland this sort of work would take 3 years, with trains running only 1 line, or completely diverted, or bus communication replacement on the rail segment. And it would require being shut down for renovation/repair work 3 years later.
The historical value of videos like this and the coal boat video is outstanding for future generations to watch. Recording tomorrows history today. Well done that man.
There are a lot of restoration projects that people talk about for decades and decades and nothing ever happens. It's lovely to see actual major progress being made on such a major restoration.
it's not for lack of enthusiasm that these qrojects are slow - it's usually difficulties getting the land back. when some canals were abandoned the land was offered back to the farmer who originally owned it so that can be a lot of owners even over a mile in length.
It's nice to hear of a project that actually takes care of the wild life in and around the site. It'll be cool to see another update once this has watter in it and plant life has returned to the area.
"Cruising the Cut" is the first RUclips channel I just lock on to a mix and let it run. In a world going mad, this is a wonderful rabbit hole to escape to for a bit of sanctuary. More significantly, it was you who first brought "gin and tonic" to my attention. What a lovely world of flavor combinations to explore. This is multicultural diversity and inclusion at it's finest !!! ;)
The time lapse was brilliant. Thank you for another informative video. Really excited that we are still building / restoring this type of infrastructure.
Well done to all the crew at Network rail. Giving up their Christmas to get this project completed, great dedication. A much undervalued team who keep this country’s railways running.
I see 450 Comments in 7 hours. David does something many are enthused about, but nobody can reproduce. The videos are a technical marvel with the imprint of David's character, which is one of a kind. 4.7K likes, 32656 views!
A very neat project. Good to see plenty of layers of geotextile fabric going down in the foundation works. I would say that this project should easily exceed its 125 year life cycle design period. Mark from Melbourne Australia
Sunday afternoon. Just had huge meal and a wander around the shops. Back home, get this on the notification, cast this on the screen. There is no comfier plane of existence than the one I'm on right now :-)
Im in the US. We had a few canals back east, then the trains took over. I think of we were older as a country, we may have had more canals . I am fascinated by this old level of logistics. I would like to spend an entire summer on a boat with my dog.
@@MrThorp1 I'm an idiot. We do have canals. There are 3 main ones in my area. The Rediversion Canal (AKA the Santee Canal) that connects Lake Moultrie to the Santee River, the Diversion Canal that connects Lake Moultrie to Lake Marion, and the Tail Race Canal that connects Lake Moultrie to the Cooper River. I don't call them canals. I think of them as rivers. They are on a whole other scale than the ones in the UK and the old canals we have here in the US. Mainly because they are 150 years newer. The oldest one was dug in 1943. Two of them actually have a hydroelectric dam spanning across them. You really cannot compare them. We used to have a historic canal here called the Old Santee Canal that was dug in 1793 but unfortunately it was flooded and lost with the construction of Lake Moultrie. There's some rice field canals that supplied rice plantations with water but they are not recognized as canals. They are extremely small and they permanently flooded the rice fields a while back. They re just part of the Cooper River. Fortunately the plantations are still around. We have some beautiful plantations here. It's just the rice fields that are gone. Anyways you're right. Trains have taken over. None of these canals are used to transport anything. They are used specifically for hydroelectric energy. Neither is the Cooper River. At least the parts of it that were used in the 1700s. There are still big shipping channels that go up the first 15 miles of this river. They mainly supply the Bushy Park Industrial Complex and Nucor Steel Berkeley along with occasional deliveries to other places.
As a citizen of a country that basically abandoned its massive canal network (usa) it makes me happy to see people who actually care making sure the canals are cared for.
@@Арсенал-ф8ъ Washington D.C. has the eastern section of the 184.5 mile C&O Canal National Historic Park that goes along the northern side of the Potomac River with its western terminus being in Cumberland MD. Only few miles at the Washington D.C. end of the canal is significantly watered. I've been told by National Park administrators back in the early 1990s the idea is to water the entire canal, but there is no current advertised program to do that project. There are no private leisure canal boats using it except for small boats such as row boats and canoes. There does not appear to have ever been any branches from the main C&O Canal. There were two main marinas where canal boats would moor at the ends of the canal both now filled in. In Cumberland MD the marina was huge and it appears a medium size marina could be recreated. At the Washington D.C. end the marina is now prime real-estate with expensive buildings on it such as the Watergate, but for modern engined canal boats that don't require a towpath there is an option to reimplement a connection between the C&O Canal and Potomac River about 1 mile west of Georgetown to allow canal boats to transition to the Potomac River. Once on the tidal Potomac River canal boats can dock at Georgetown Harbor or other places along the Potomac River. Large boats with large wakes are a hazard to smaller craft that use the Potomac River from Georgetown D.C. going east. Because the C&O canal was built to except canal boats able to carry 100 tons of coal it is large enough to except most pleasure boats and not just canal boats. A UK narrowboat I think would do just fine on it as well as being able to go the short section on the Potomac River to get to Georgetown Harbor. The C&O Canal doesn't really go through towns like the UK canals do. It could act as a waterway to bring pleasure boats to impounded Potomac River water sections made to supply the C&O Canal with water. That could become very popular. The Potomac River has impounding dams in it for creating the C&O Canal's water supply. Those dams appear to still be working even though water is no longer being supplied to the canal except at the Washington D.C. end. By far the main use of the C&O Canal today is the use of its towpath as a gravel like path for a continuation of the Great Allegheny Passage that goes between Pittsburg PA and Cumberland MD mainly using a railroad corridor sometimes as a rail-with -trail and in a few places as a rail-trail. Most places where a rail-with-trail the bicycle path has almost the same quality of alignment as the rail alignment.
That bridge should outlast the use of trains and I'm sure the neighborhood appreciates seeing such a well built structure too. Well put together David, informational documentaries certainly is your forte'.
Well, given the flat roof I'm assuming its reinforced concrete so it will have only a life of a hundred or so years. Those old 18th century bridges will be standing long after this one has to be replaced.
I really can listen to your narrations all day. My favorites are of course the barely restrained rants. But these gentle narrations are wonderful. Plus the details of the subject are fascinating. Thank you
Wow! A serious project in just a week with minimum disruption. This canal restoration is to me, an American of Scottish and English decent is wonderful. I’ve donated to this project in a small way knowing I’ll never have a chance to even see the canal system. But see it as part of my families heritage. Thank you David. And thank you to all the volunteers. Anyone notice their obvious age? Who says the old are useless?
TV production values in that report, not lost the touch! It's a very exciting project and restoration of access opens up quite a decent length of canal to the next obstruction - 2025 final completion seems ambitious, but this bridge is hugely reassuring that it can be done.
It was nice to see that another business was so willing to do more than just say sorry we will have to fill in this waterway to up grade our system .and by doing this , going the extra mile have helped improve the canal system and enhance the quality of life of the local community and the canal system for many decades to come .Thank you for the update .
WoW, I am astounded by the atatude of the "works projects manager". Very up-lifting to see so much pasion for the construction as well as the resteration.
The technical name for the 'corrugated iron tube' is 'culvert'. What an amazing bit of civil engineering. Thanks for sharing the time-lapse and interview with the site manager.
The tunnel looks simple but the engineering/ecology work/investigation behind what we see is amazing. David, thanks for documenting this work. Hope there will be another one when it's completed. Before - during - after trilogy!
Nancy's guy Frank here, WONDERFUL video! Loved watching all that took place. Thanks for putting in the effort to tell the story so thoroughly, it was worth it. Also wanted to say how much I appreciate that you put out several videos in a short span recently, that was an effort I'm sure. The great content is making up for fewer videos. I watch everything you put out on all of your channels, and I must say your work and content gets better ALL the time. Thank you for the effort your work IS appreciated more than you could possibly know!
That was just incredible David! Brilliant to see the whole construction in quick time. It restores faith in British engineering and construction. Best wishes
Fascinating, thank you David. How lovely to hear project manager Deborah so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about this challenge. Very informative and enjoyable, so good, I watched it twice 😀 x
And that massive crane. Ooh, they'd be so jealous. (Woe betide the navvies who dug the Standedge Tunnel by hand if they get their hands on a tunnel boring machine...!)
Fantastic "ballet" they performed, and such coordination with the CTC, environmentalists etc.!. The level of cooperation that must be achieved to pull these projects off without a hitch boggles the mind, and very encouraging I'm sure, for all stakeholders to see. Great presentation David! These canal-improvement posts are extremely interesting. Cheers.
A new viewer from Canada, your bread making video from the past was the funniest I have ever seen. You are truly a talented communicator. Benny Hill must have been watching and guiding you through. You are very pleasant to watch. 👍👍👍
I've walked under the railway there many thousands of times (I used to live in Stonehouse) before the works, It will be very strange to go under it when it reopens! Its been fascinating to watch the work on the canal over the years
Well done, David, the Cotswold Canals Trust, and especially the wonderfully clever folks at the Special Projects section of Network Rail. A great solution and another part of a "lost canal will be back "in water" soon. So good to see progress like this, David. Thank you for keeping us updated when there is such good news to share.
I'm impressed with the dedication of all involved. What's even more impressive is the work of bringing a 200+ year old canal back to life so that it can be enjoyed and used for many more years.
I watched this and found it interesting. Then decided to look and see when it was done. To my astonishment it was today and has over 44,000 views and almost 500 comments. I had to read the stats several times ... wow you made it in the video world, congrats. And deserving.
There were pretty much 30+ people stood on the swing bridge every day watching it happen 'live' over the holidays. Not too surprising the the videos are popular too!
Good to see you're still providing such wonderful material, I will look forward to your next presentation whatever it is. You are a true professional and find such interesting topics.
From one unrequested viewpoint, again, sorry, the larger picture is that for all practical purposes, there was agreement to simply make the task happen. Someone actually cared enough to push this through - and - convince everyone else involved to buy in to the project. This seems as if it is unheard of anymore. The canal supporters will likely always be there but for Network Rail to buy into this.. amazing. Transport groups can be very challenging for projects that do not directly benefit their bottom lines. What a gift for sustaining and becoming an active part of British history. You were able to be part of it too David. Good on you lad, and raise a pint to Network for us. Amzaing.
What a wonderful piece of engineering--great to see the speeded up version of the construction. Great work on everyone's part, including the Canal Trust. Thanks for the update, David.
Fantastic all very cool and thank you David for bringing all that to the attention of the public, very well produced and great footage. Thanks Roger Mc
nice up-date and great to see yet another section of the canals moving towards boating. I wish the USA would restore and add canals in such a fashion. all countries would benefit from the use of these highways of water.
As a Stroudie myself I can't wait until I get the opportunity to bring my boat back to my home town. Thanks for sharing the fantastic efforts of the cotswold canal Trust and well done network rail for a fantastic job 👍
Kudos to Networkrail for a job well planned and well done. Casting the sections in place is no small feat in itself. I've worked with concrete, making and pumping it on-site here in Canada in -15C winter weather for an 18-story apartment building and I can imagine what it was like in October plus for their crews. And thanks to you David for a very interesting video. Here's hoping the Trust is able to make the plans happen by 2025.
Thank you David. I’ve just spent most of my Sunday (it’s too hot outside, 36c) catching up on your vlogs I’ve missed over the last 6 months or more. So professionally produced, educational and pleasant to watch. We had planned 5 weeks on the cut back in May 2020 but COVID-19 put an end to that. I doubt we’ll get the opportunity again for a while so your vlogs help fill the yearning. Thank you so much. Cheers from Perth, Western Australia.
“With water comes life”. With David comes proper script drafting and a bit of fine “wordsmithing” to polish it off. You should be a guest lecturer in journalism schools. 👍🇨🇦
What a fascinating video! Modern engineering and technology are really something! Engineers and highly technical heavy equipment operators make a lot of money, but this is one of the few jobs where they actually deserve it. You can't just get a regular construction Apprentice to go in there and complete a job like this. I don't know how they do it, it is so far beyond my scope of knowledge. What a pleasure it was to watch these highly intelligent professionals do their thing.
I liked that they looked after the fish and duck life, although the pools seem tiny, till canal is fully restored., 2025? Kudos to David for this breaking news story and well researched and written, I might add, as a retired newspaper librarian..
An excellent video. To Anthony Lee I would say that prior to health and safety and the orange jackets etc lots of people got hurt or killed on sites like this.
That was brilliant David, thanks very much. Nice to see the canals and railway working together 👍 really impressive bit of engineering and exciting that we may have a new stretch of waterway in 2026
Fantastic work from the Orange Arm there. All of you railway maintenance staff are massively undervalued including by your own management who are trying to make a third of you redundant. Seeing a project like that executed so well and so quickly is a credit to you all. It makes me proud to say I work on the railway.
Prefabricated structures go together quicker on site but there is a lot of off site time. The advantage as was demonstrated less disruption. Neat project.
The nighttime portions of sped up footage provided by the Cotswold Canals Trust made me think of the scene at Calvius Base in "2001: A Space Odyssey" where they approach the monolith in the excavation. On a serious note: That was a feat, completing work on the tunnel-stroke-bridge in such a timely manner. I look forward to further updates when the CCT are finally able to connect the tunnel to the canal. Thank you for another entertaining and educational vlog entry.
Thanks for putting together this vlog David. I was very pleased to show you around the site.
Thank you Deborah, it was extremely interesting and, as you have seen from the comments, much appreciated by everyone who watches these videos 😀👍
Thank you for working with our beloved host on this very interesting project!
Can't wait to see your next project!! And yes, so great fully appreciated it hurts!
Awesome interview! Thanks for all the great information!
Amazing organizational culture. In Poland this sort of work would take 3 years, with trains running only 1 line, or completely diverted, or bus communication replacement on the rail segment. And it would require being shut down for renovation/repair work 3 years later.
The historical value of videos like this and the coal boat video is outstanding for future generations to watch. Recording tomorrows history today. Well done that man.
There are a lot of restoration projects that people talk about for decades and decades and nothing ever happens. It's lovely to see actual major progress being made on such a major restoration.
it's not for lack of enthusiasm that these qrojects are slow - it's usually difficulties getting the land back. when some canals were abandoned the land was offered back to the farmer who originally owned it so that can be a lot of owners even over a mile in length.
@@MsVanorak It usually money through.
As an engineer, that was a very impressive project. Done quickly and effectively is rarely something said in the same sentence. Thanks for the vid.
It's nice to hear of a project that actually takes care of the wild life in and around the site.
It'll be cool to see another update once this has watter in it and plant life has returned to the area.
"Cruising the Cut" is the first RUclips channel I just lock on to a mix and let it run.
In a world going mad, this is a wonderful rabbit hole to escape to for a bit of sanctuary.
More significantly, it was you who first brought "gin and tonic" to my attention.
What a lovely world of flavor combinations to explore.
This is multicultural diversity and inclusion at it's finest !!!
;)
Who needs TV reporters when David can do it on his own, good move David nice to see you can still do it, very professional. 👍
The time lapse was brilliant. Thank you for another informative video. Really excited that we are still building / restoring this type of infrastructure.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A pleasant and intelligent woman modestly enjoying her success.
Well done to all the crew at Network rail.
Giving up their Christmas to get this project completed, great dedication.
A much undervalued team who keep this country’s railways running.
Thank you.
I see 450 Comments in 7 hours. David does something many are enthused about, but nobody can reproduce. The videos are a technical marvel with the imprint of David's character, which is one of a kind. 4.7K likes, 32656 views!
Thank you
I really like the new "InvestigatingTheCut". Whenever i miss your cruising videos i just rewatch older episodes. The new content is great.
Thank you :-)
A very neat project. Good to see plenty of layers of geotextile fabric going down in the foundation works. I would say that this project should easily exceed its 125 year life cycle design period.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
what is that fabric used for?
Sunday afternoon. Just had huge meal and a wander around the shops. Back home, get this on the notification, cast this on the screen.
There is no comfier plane of existence than the one I'm on right now :-)
I can tell you once worked for the BBC. Very well put together.
I’m not from the UK. We do not have canals or narrow boats where I’m from. I find this kind of stuff to be very interesting. Keep up the good work.
Same here.
Im in the US. We had a few canals back east, then the trains took over. I think of we were older as a country, we may have had more canals .
I am fascinated by this old level of logistics. I would like to spend an entire summer on a boat with my dog.
@@MrThorp1 I'm an idiot. We do have canals. There are 3 main ones in my area. The Rediversion Canal (AKA the Santee Canal) that connects Lake Moultrie to the Santee River, the Diversion Canal that connects Lake Moultrie to Lake Marion, and the Tail Race Canal that connects Lake Moultrie to the Cooper River. I don't call them canals. I think of them as rivers. They are on a whole other scale than the ones in the UK and the old canals we have here in the US. Mainly because they are 150 years newer. The oldest one was dug in 1943. Two of them actually have a hydroelectric dam spanning across them. You really cannot compare them. We used to have a historic canal here called the Old Santee Canal that was dug in 1793 but unfortunately it was flooded and lost with the construction of Lake Moultrie. There's some rice field canals that supplied rice plantations with water but they are not recognized as canals. They are extremely small and they permanently flooded the rice fields a while back. They re just part of the Cooper River. Fortunately the plantations are still around. We have some beautiful plantations here. It's just the rice fields that are gone. Anyways you're right. Trains have taken over. None of these canals are used to transport anything. They are used specifically for hydroelectric energy. Neither is the Cooper River. At least the parts of it that were used in the 1700s. There are still big shipping channels that go up the first 15 miles of this river. They mainly supply the Bushy Park Industrial Complex and Nucor Steel Berkeley along with occasional deliveries to other places.
I love that she seems to totally love her work.
As a citizen of a country that basically abandoned its massive canal network (usa) it makes me happy to see people who actually care making sure the canals are cared for.
Agreed, seems the Brits embraced their Canal Heritage in a way that the Yanks didn't.
US had canals?
@@Арсенал-ф8ъ Still does in some places - the Erie Canal for one.
@@Арсенал-ф8ъ Washington D.C. has the eastern section of the 184.5 mile C&O Canal National Historic Park that goes along the northern side of the Potomac River with its western terminus being in Cumberland MD. Only few miles at the Washington D.C. end of the canal is significantly watered. I've been told by National Park administrators back in the early 1990s the idea is to water the entire canal, but there is no current advertised program to do that project. There are no private leisure canal boats using it except for small boats such as row boats and canoes.
There does not appear to have ever been any branches from the main C&O Canal. There were two main marinas where canal boats would moor at the ends of the canal both now filled in. In Cumberland MD the marina was huge and it appears a medium size marina could be recreated. At the Washington D.C. end the marina is now prime real-estate with expensive buildings on it such as the Watergate, but for modern engined canal boats that don't require a towpath there is an option to reimplement a connection between the C&O Canal and Potomac River about 1 mile west of Georgetown to allow canal boats to transition to the Potomac River. Once on the tidal Potomac River canal boats can dock at Georgetown Harbor or other places along the Potomac River. Large boats with large wakes are a hazard to smaller craft that use the Potomac River from Georgetown D.C. going east.
Because the C&O canal was built to except canal boats able to carry 100 tons of coal it is large enough to except most pleasure boats and not just canal boats. A UK narrowboat I think would do just fine on it as well as being able to go the short section on the Potomac River to get to Georgetown Harbor.
The C&O Canal doesn't really go through towns like the UK canals do. It could act as a waterway to bring pleasure boats to impounded Potomac River water sections made to supply the C&O Canal with water. That could become very popular.
The Potomac River has impounding dams in it for creating the C&O Canal's water supply. Those dams appear to still be working even though water is no longer being supplied to the canal except at the Washington D.C. end. By far the main use of the C&O Canal today is the use of its towpath as a gravel like path for a continuation of the Great Allegheny Passage that goes between Pittsburg PA and Cumberland MD mainly using a railroad corridor sometimes as a rail-with -trail and in a few places as a rail-trail. Most places where a rail-with-trail the bicycle path has almost the same quality of alignment as the rail alignment.
Nice to see Cruising the Cut has gone back to it's roots and started posting videos containing swans again. :)
I am in awe of the project management on display here. Bravo to the team!
Thank you
That bridge should outlast the use of trains and I'm sure the neighborhood appreciates seeing such a well built structure too. Well put together David, informational documentaries certainly is your forte'.
Well, given the flat roof I'm assuming its reinforced concrete so it will have only a life of a hundred or so years. Those old 18th century bridges will be standing long after this one has to be replaced.
@@AndyM_323YYY Nothing lasts forever, but at least we got to see it without any tags.
I really can listen to your narrations all day. My favorites are of course the barely restrained rants. But these gentle narrations are wonderful. Plus the details of the subject are fascinating. Thank you
Wow! A serious project in just a week with minimum disruption. This canal restoration is to me, an American of Scottish and English decent is wonderful. I’ve donated to this project in a small way knowing I’ll never have a chance to even see the canal system. But see it as part of my families heritage. Thank you David. And thank you to all the volunteers. Anyone notice their obvious age? Who says the old are useless?
TV production values in that report, not lost the touch!
It's a very exciting project and restoration of access opens up quite a decent length of canal to the next obstruction - 2025 final completion seems ambitious, but this bridge is hugely reassuring that it can be done.
Hello David
It’s great to see positive minded and focused people in action. Congratulations to all on that mammoth achievement.
Keep smiling mate
JD
Well managed project. As a retired project manager its so satisfying to seeing good planning, design and site management pay off to completion.
It was nice to see that another business was so willing to do more than just say sorry we will have to fill in this waterway to up grade our system .and by doing this , going the extra mile have helped improve the canal system and enhance the quality of life of the local community and the canal system for many decades to come .Thank you for the update .
I've always wanted to see a dry canal get filled again that would be satisfying.
WoW, I am astounded by the atatude of the "works projects manager". Very up-lifting to see so much pasion for the construction as well as the resteration.
Thank you.
The technical name for the 'corrugated iron tube' is 'culvert'. What an amazing bit of civil engineering. Thanks for sharing the time-lapse and interview with the site manager.
My audience, however, is not necessarily technical so the fewer technical words, the better! Glad you enjoyed it.
Fab! I get the feeling Deborah and her team enjoy their job - look at all the toys they get to play with.
I certainly do!
I greatly admire the dedication to the Canal system over there!! Fantastic!
It goes to show what can be done, when everyone works together, very nice video David
Great to see your take on this. Epic engineering, makes one proud to be British!
Please do a quick update in the summer when this small section is complete!
I love your pieces on canal refurbishing. I don't think we'd see anything like this anywhere else. Thanks!
katefF Finally, the mystery of Stonehenge solved! Giant slabs of stone to form underpass for prehistory canal!
Good to see canal restoration coming along!
Props to Network Rail. That underpass was pure genius.
Thank you
The tunnel looks simple but the engineering/ecology work/investigation behind what we see is amazing. David, thanks for documenting this work. Hope there will be another one when it's completed. Before - during - after trilogy!
Nancy's guy Frank here, WONDERFUL video! Loved watching all that took place. Thanks for putting in the effort to tell the story so thoroughly, it was worth it. Also wanted to say how much I appreciate that you put out several videos in a short span recently, that was an effort I'm sure. The great content is making up for fewer videos. I watch everything you put out on all of your channels, and I must say your work and content gets better ALL the time. Thank you for the effort your work IS appreciated more than you could possibly know!
Thank you
This canal restoration series is very interesting
Been member of this great trust for years, here in New York. Up the Cotswolds!
That was just incredible David! Brilliant to see the whole construction in quick time. It restores faith in British engineering and construction. Best wishes
David this is a very good example of the detail and thoroughness you input to a episode, your the best.
Fascinating, thank you David. How lovely to hear project manager Deborah so knowledgeable and enthusiastic about this challenge. Very informative and enjoyable, so good, I watched it twice 😀 x
Thank you
Another great video where you did some research to make us all a little more enlightened.
Glad you liked it
That is the kind of special ops I like! Hope to see you cruising under it in a few years.
It's amazing how when you speed up the sound of construction work it sounds like an acoustic guitar
🤣🤣
Imagine a Victorian Navi seeing all those machines and trucks. They’d absolutely love it.
And that massive crane. Ooh, they'd be so jealous.
(Woe betide the navvies who dug the Standedge Tunnel by hand if they get their hands on a tunnel boring machine...!)
I'm always a fan of time-lapse excavation and construction! Thank you for bringing this to us.
Fantastic "ballet" they performed, and such coordination with the CTC, environmentalists etc.!. The level of cooperation that must be achieved to pull these projects off without a hitch boggles the mind, and very encouraging I'm sure, for all stakeholders to see. Great presentation David! These canal-improvement posts are extremely interesting. Cheers.
Wow , just goes to show what can be done when worker's get on with the job & not just looking at it ,well done to that team 👏
A new viewer from Canada, your bread making video from the past was the funniest I have ever seen. You are truly a talented communicator. Benny Hill must have been watching and guiding you through. You are very pleasant to watch. 👍👍👍
Thank you
Excellent by everyone...that includes you David!!
Wow! I mean ….. WOW! What an amazing piece of engineering and project management. Thx David, that was very cool to watch
Thank you
I've walked under the railway there many thousands of times (I used to live in Stonehouse) before the works, It will be very strange to go under it when it reopens! Its been fascinating to watch the work on the canal over the years
Hopefully it will be a much nicer open space for your walks in the future.
Well done, David, the Cotswold Canals Trust, and especially the wonderfully clever folks at the Special Projects section of Network Rail. A great solution and another part of a "lost canal will be back "in water" soon. So good to see progress like this, David. Thank you for keeping us updated when there is such good news to share.
I'm impressed with the dedication of all involved. What's even more impressive is the work of bringing a 200+ year old canal back to life so that it can be enjoyed and used for many more years.
Your titles alone are worth the thumbs up
I watched this and found it interesting. Then decided to look and see when it was done. To my astonishment it was today and has over 44,000 views and almost 500 comments. I had to read the stats several times ... wow you made it in the video world, congrats. And deserving.
There were pretty much 30+ people stood on the swing bridge every day watching it happen 'live' over the holidays. Not too surprising the the videos are popular too!
Its cool they gave you access to be so close to it.
That mobile crane looks like an impressive piece of equipment.
Just needed a Geoff Marshall cameo.
Hats off to all those involved to continue the restoration of canals and as always thank you David for covering this on your channel.
David, thanks for this vlog. What an awesome presentation. And a hearty congratulations and thank you to all involved in a massive undertaking.
Well done Network Rail, for doing the ‘right thing’.
Thank you.
Good to see you're still providing such wonderful material, I will look forward to your next presentation whatever it is. You are a true professional and find such interesting topics.
Many thanks!
From one unrequested viewpoint, again, sorry, the larger picture is that for all practical purposes, there was agreement to simply make the task happen.
Someone actually cared enough to push this through - and - convince everyone else involved to buy in to the project. This seems as if it is unheard of anymore.
The canal supporters will likely always be there but for Network Rail to buy into this.. amazing. Transport groups can be very challenging for projects that do not directly benefit their bottom lines.
What a gift for sustaining and becoming an active part of British history. You were able to be part of it too David. Good on you lad, and raise a pint to Network for us. Amzaing.
What a fantastic job. Loved the time-lapse footage.x
Glad you enjoyed it
What a wonderful piece of engineering--great to see the speeded up version of the construction. Great work on everyone's part, including the Canal Trust. Thanks for the update, David.
Fantastic all very cool and thank you David for bringing all that to the attention of the public, very well produced and great footage. Thanks Roger Mc
nice up-date and great to see yet another section of the canals moving towards boating.
I wish the USA would restore and add canals in such a fashion.
all countries would benefit from the use of these highways of water.
Yeah! Davids back with news. Exceptional Work, impressive planning ... Thanks David.
he is very informative. I wish for New England to have a canal system.
Brilliant! That gives us hope for Britains, as long as that spirit exists..Greetings from Germany, and a deeply felt "Well Done, Chaps!" as well ;-)
RealMash: We are experts at it, we built a harbour in Normandy on 6th June 1944, taking all neccessary equipment with us by boat !! 🙂✔💯👍
@@joline2730 Sorry to have disrupted the work a little, still well done!
As a Stroudie myself I can't wait until I get the opportunity to bring my boat back to my home town. Thanks for sharing the fantastic efforts of the cotswold canal Trust and well done network rail for a fantastic job 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
What a boost to the canal system. Bravo to all involved.
Great video, and hats off to Network Rail for their great work.
Thank you
Kudos to Networkrail for a job well planned and well done. Casting the sections in place is no small feat in itself. I've worked with concrete, making and pumping it on-site here in Canada in -15C winter weather for an 18-story apartment building and I can imagine what it was like in October plus for their crews.
And thanks to you David for a very interesting video. Here's hoping the Trust is able to make the plans happen by 2025.
Thank you.
Thank you David. I’ve just spent most of my Sunday (it’s too hot outside, 36c) catching up on your vlogs I’ve missed over the last 6 months or more. So professionally produced, educational and pleasant to watch. We had planned 5 weeks on the cut back in May 2020 but COVID-19 put an end to that. I doubt we’ll get the opportunity again for a while so your vlogs help fill the yearning.
Thank you so much. Cheers from Perth, Western Australia.
“With water comes life”. With David comes proper script drafting and a bit of fine “wordsmithing” to polish it off.
You should be a guest lecturer in journalism schools. 👍🇨🇦
Seven days, incredible...now that's engineering. When people come together they can pull anything off 👍
What a fascinating video! Modern engineering and technology are really something! Engineers and highly technical heavy equipment operators make a lot of money, but this is one of the few jobs where they actually deserve it. You can't just get a regular construction Apprentice to go in there and complete a job like this. I don't know how they do it, it is so far beyond my scope of knowledge. What a pleasure it was to watch these highly intelligent professionals do their thing.
I liked that they looked after the fish and duck life, although the pools seem tiny, till canal is fully restored., 2025? Kudos to David for this breaking news story and well researched and written, I might add, as a retired newspaper librarian..
Thank you
Wow... I cannot imagine having something like this in Germany. So great. You can be very proud.
Oooh, enjoyed this. I hope you're there to record the re-watering! I'd love to see that.
Very nice to see that hurdle completed. I have been following the restoration for years.
An excellent video. To Anthony Lee I would say that prior to health and safety and the orange jackets etc lots of people got hurt or killed on sites like this.
I still get why these muppets long for the days when kids were sent up chimneys.
Always great to see the network still being upgraded and maintained , gives me great hope for the future
That was brilliant David, thanks very much. Nice to see the canals and railway working together 👍 really impressive bit of engineering and exciting that we may have a new stretch of waterway in 2026
Fantastic work from the Orange Arm there. All of you railway maintenance staff are massively undervalued including by your own management who are trying to make a third of you redundant. Seeing a project like that executed so well and so quickly is a credit to you all. It makes me proud to say I work on the railway.
Gosh David, you’ve come up trumps again, such an interesting vlog. Thank you.
Prefabricated structures go together quicker on site but there is a lot of off site time. The advantage as was demonstrated less disruption. Neat project.
Awesome project - - - very nice to see! I love that they cared for the fish!! 😎 💛
We rescued and relocated over 4000 fish
So glad that England look after the canals
Lovely good news! We could use more of these in 2022.
True!
The nighttime portions of sped up footage provided by the Cotswold Canals Trust made me think of the scene at Calvius Base in "2001: A Space Odyssey" where they approach the monolith in the excavation. On a serious note: That was a feat, completing work on the tunnel-stroke-bridge in such a timely manner. I look forward to further updates when the CCT are finally able to connect the tunnel to the canal. Thank you for another entertaining and educational vlog entry.
Cheers
Bridge over Tunneled Waters…..absolutely brilliant 😂
It’s projects like this and it’s execution in such a short time that makes one proud to be British
Wow brilliant. What a work. Well done to all involved. Loved how they took care of the wild life, thank you for sharing this with us.
Nice to see a canal reborn...almost.