Welland Viaduct. The longest in the UK
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- join me as i visit the longest viaduct (over a valley) in the UK. Welland Viaduct that bridges over the Welland Valley was built by the Midland Railway and is still used for a small commuter service and freight. I visit this 82 arch monster that goes between northamptonshire and Rutland.
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What an incredible viaduct this is Middy. Looks in great condition, many thanks.
Thanks for watching. It really is a beauty and in fantastic condition
Always called it Harringworth. Have driven beneath it, have ridden above it. It's nothing less than glorious!
It's a glorious structure and has to be seen to be believed!
Remarkable structure many thanks 👍
Thank you for watching 👍
Glad to see that you have gone to see it. I knew it would blow your mind! Just a pity that there are no longer any LMS Garrats on coal empties going North over it. That was a real sight for sore eyes. I think they often had 70 odd wagons as a double load returning from London. They used to race down onto the viaduct and get a run at the bank up to Manton Tunnel. Talk about making the ground shake! It was frightening to ride under there on your bike. A sight you'd never forget. It was also the route of the Waverley Express which ran from St. Pancras to Scotland via the Corby - Melton - Nottingham cut off, avoiding Leicester and was usually a job for a Jubilee and a very rare route for Scotch Expresses.
I knew you'd be impressed when you saw the size of the viaduct! I always lost count trying to see how many arches there were. Well worth the journey to see it. Sad about the drone, but I know they don't do well in windy conditions as we lost one a few years ago when the wind blew it off course and into a tree (where it remained for nearly 2 years before falling down in pieces). Hard to imagine the work done by the navvies in harsh conditions but their workmanship was excellent to have survived all weathers and still carry the much heavier trains of today!
Thanks for the video which stirred memories of a bygone era. Keep them coming.
Thank you and thanks for watching. I didn't mention your name on the video but I am sure you knew I meant you! Thanks for the recommendation! Incredible structure that rightfully took my breath away it was great to visit
Those arches just seem to go on and on and on and on 😮 Amazing views and location.
Thanks for watching as always! It just seemed to keep stretching out before us no matter how far I walked! A truly amazing bit of architecture that is a testament to how well it was built 👍
@@MiddyExplores People live beside it what a treat middy indeed .
Excellent...cheers...
Thanks for watching 👍
Impressive viaduct, enjoyed watching this.
Thank you for watching, new videos every week 👍
Nice one middy another great video it is an amazing viaduct nice to see it in working order 👍keep them coming
Thank you for watching and I will! Plenty more coming up 👍 thanks for your support 😀
Stunning !
Thanks for watching. It really is !!
I need to go here now love places like this
Well worth a visit. If you use the what3words I gave in the video there is parking and it puts you on the footpath
I have visited the wonderful viaduct several times. It is an amazing line - tunnels at Corby, Seaton, Glaston, Wing and Manton (two of them over a mile)! Lovely video PJ - as a small favour, talk in miles, not horrid kilometers!! By the way, Morcott tunnel is worth a visit too, on the old Seaton to Morcott branch.
Thank you for watching and I have no idea why I went over to kilometers for this video! I promise it won't happen again!! I have visited Morcott and a video of it is on the channel 👍
It is a stunning piece of architecture.
There's another view of it to be had, if you stop at the Morcott petrol station on the eastbound side of the A47, you can see the viaduct down in the distance from there.
Thanks for watching Paul. Yes I saw it the other week when I did Morcott Tunnel. It's a great view of it 👍
A beautiful structure, I am in the camp of calling it Harringworth Viaduct. I have traveled over it on numerous occasions. On rail tours, and diverted MML services.
I do believe there are a couple of morning MML services that use it.
Thanks for watching. It really is a beautiful structure and thank goodness is avoided the axe all those years ago. Yes it has a daily service now and freight services. Lovely to see this old structure getting used as it should.
The numbers are quite something. 82 arches spread over 1.1 kilometres and comprising of 30 million bricks, and 3 years to build by as many as 3,000 workers. Takes your breath away just looking at it.
Thanks for watching David. Incredible in every way, the sheer size of the project is amazing. And even though it's had maintenance over the years it's in incredible condition.
Some shots from your video would be so phenomenal as B&W photo shots! It's an incredible structure.
Thank you for watching. I will Try that and see how they look!
I have been lucky enough to travel across it a couple of times. When I was at PE college in London back in the 80's I used to get the train back home from St Pancras to Leicester, however, sometimes there would be a diversion on that line which took you off the mainline just north of Kettering and round through Corby before heading over the viaduct and on to Leicester through Melton Mowbray, which in fact was my final destination, but the bloody train never stopped there, despite me asking the guard to do so!!!! That old hut was a great find too👍.
Thank you and thanks for watching. It really is a magnificent structure and one that perhaps should be more celebrated! The farmer had done everything he could to block the view off the hill!! I am going to try and find one of the specials that travel over it 👍
@@MiddyExplores I've had a good look on google maps of the area and there is so much to see. Did you get the chance to have a look at Seaton Station? It's got all-sorts there, platforms, original footbridge, station buildings etc. You can get a hell of a view from the road that runs past it too. I'm getting myself down to the area this winter to have a good old nosey believe me.
@@seamusmcevoy2011 yes I did and I am planning to go back as like you say there's loads in the area! Unfortunately on this day I was soaked to the skin and pretty much everything electrical had stopped working so a visit to the pub in Seaton was in order!
@@MiddyExplores That sounds very sensible!!!
Have only just found this, so again late to the party. I really enjoy looking at old railway infrastructure and have now got this on my bucket list. I really like to walk these places I can normally do around 8 or so miles finding that suits my mid seventy year old feet. For this one though, I might be accompanied by my wife so would like to park within a couple of miles of it, is this possible ? Thanks for posting this.
Thank you for watching. There is parking at either end of the viaduct so very easy to explore. Most of the land is easily accessible. Enjoy!
I love this....
Thank you and thanks for watching
Known as Harringworth Viaduct too from my days as a BR Civil Engineer
Thank you for watching. Tbh that's what I was told originally! That's why I mentioned every name I was given. Strangely when we visited the pub in Seaton afterwards the landlord was adamant it was Seaton Viaduct!!
What a great piece of architecture to survive the years and still get some use and admiration! 🙌🎉
Thanks for watching. A real beauty that seems to go on forever!
There's another line that runs by it, long gone, the station at Seaton is a scrap yard, if you look the other side you'll see the old line, dividing the fields banked up. There's also another bridge where this old line (to Peterborough I think) goes under the Harringworth Viaduct line, just up from the last arch (Seaton end).
Thanks for watching. I will have a look at that! Thanks for the information 👍
Cracking vid pal she is a beauty
Thanks buddy. That is some viaduct and an incredible bit of engineering. Thanks for watching
Wonderful agreed, I wonder how many brickies they had working at a time to finish it in only 3 years?
Thank you for watching. It really is a magnificent structure and like you say it's not overly high but goes on forever!!
Thanks for watching. The only information I could find was the workforce went up to 3000 but I am not sure how many were working at any one time! No mean feat to achieve that in the time allowed.
Hi, It's official name is Welland Viaduct. Stumbled across your channel looking for something else, so I'm going through your back videos.
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy the videos. Plenty more coming up in 2023 ,👍
It's Harringworth viaduct jump in the car just head over to Seaton you will see the old station. I would take the tank engine down to Seaton and it would do the push and pull to Uppingham. We would get releave and then we would go over the line to take the Peterborough to Rugby passenger train up to market Harborough and then on to Rugby .Ron fireman at Market Harborough.
Thanks for watching and for the information. When we went for a pint afterwards on Seaton the landlord informed me it was Seaton Viaduct! In the village it was Harringworth Viaduct!! I think everyone thinks it's theirs!! Beautiful old structure. Thanks for the details👍
Your Well come if you are still in the area go and have a look at the Northampton branch you can have a look at the tunnel 2off .We bank the coal train up the bank 2 8f one on the head of the train the other one on the back pushing on the guard brake. There are 4 tunnel on the line two single tunnel side by side. We would turn the engine and go on the back tender firest that way we do not get any smoke on the footplate. If you went up engine firest that was a different ball game all together. Have fun boys. Ron
I was staying with my friends in laws in Bisbrooke a small village a mile from Uppingham back in 1976 and we waked everywhere (no car in those days). One of our walks was to visit the closed Seaton station, still with buildings, platforms and steel footbridge. But the real joy was the view from the road near the old station over the Welland valley at the enormously long Harringworth Viaduct. Since those times I have travelled over the viaduct on two steam specials, it is a superb structure not in height maybe but it`s the length that is staggering.
Thanks for watching. It really is an incredible structure and should be celebrated more!
Fantastic only just discovered this video an want a steam special over this 😊
80ft tall this is and i have the pleasure of driving past this on my round
Thanks for watching. It seems to go on forever!
What a stunning structure, so good it's still active. Great video, I was blown away when I went to see it. 3 years to build is just incredible, it would take forever nowadays or they would build some concrete thing.
Thats exactly what we said ! 3 years is no time at all. Incredible place to visit and it just goes on forever!
It's terrible that those Philistine scrooges scrooges at Network Rail refused to pay extra for orange Engineering Bricks in 2016 !
In the 1980's it was purely orange brick and looked magnificent.
Thanks for watching. It's certainly in a poor state now and getting worse. A real shame.
ill watch it in a bit mate im too busy sending harry maguire threatening messages 🤣
You didnt have to sit through it last night!!
@@MiddyExplores the bosche? always watching that one mate!