Epic Canal Engineering | Chirk Aqueduct and tunnel

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6 ай бұрын

Epic Canal Engineering
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Follow me on this epic adventure taking in some of the most astonishing sites on their UK canal Network. From Whitehouse tunnel to the epic Chirk Aqueduct, Chirk Viaduct and equally impressive Chirk tunnel. An absolute masterclass in engineering with Thomas Telford on the Llangollen Canal on the Shropshire Union
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@davidkettell1073 4 ай бұрын

My brother in law has lived in Chirk all his life and i have visited many times.As a teen i walked through that tunnel .(terrifying.) and rode the steam train across the railway bridge. One of the most impressive pieces of engineering,but Telford was a genius.

@CourtAboveTheCut 4 ай бұрын

It’s such a historic area, I bet that it was amazing to go over it in a steam train!

@williamlloyd3769 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for making these videos!

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching them!

@martinmarsola6477 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the walking tour. I will never get back to the UK, with the ALS I have. Appreciate your videos because you explain as you walk along. Happy new year tomorrow, Steve. Hope you enjoy it. 🇬🇧👍🙂🇺🇸

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

Happy new year to you too, I hope your health is holding well, the good news is there’s massive funding coming in now so hopefully things will change soon for ALS

@davegillman6296 6 ай бұрын

The tramway mentioned is the revival of the Glyn valley Tramway

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

Ah thank you, I’ll get on google!

@kimblecheat 5 ай бұрын

I love that place - yep, we can pronounce it. It’s held together with sugar…

@CourtAboveTheCut 5 ай бұрын

I have some welsh mates who often give me pronunciations but they do like to lie to me occasionally 😂

@valve0radio 3 ай бұрын

Imagine looking across the valley (pre build) from the hilltop and thinking; we need to build a navigable river across this piece of sky, and the spans-reach are made with brittle bricks and blocks!, & @ the right height to seamlessly connect with an upper waterway!! Then add water with boats on!

@CourtAboveTheCut 3 ай бұрын

It’s crazy isn’t it, the engineers were mad back then, they had to be!

@keithadams1538 6 ай бұрын

Back in the 60s my dad worked for a construction firm called Whitehouse in the Midlands. They were a very old established company. Things that make you say hmm I wonder if they built that tunnel

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

I might have to start Googling!

@redscouse7056 5 ай бұрын

My understanding was the Chirk tunnel was tunnelled out, why else were the shafts put in . The shaft was put in so they could dig it from several places at the same time.

@CourtAboveTheCut 5 ай бұрын

Shafts were also built for air, I did wonder the same as I was walking through though, my research said cut and cover though but I definitely doubt it myself

@glyn829 6 ай бұрын

Nice film 👌 we're at Chirk at the moment great place 👌 walked the tunnel its creepy lol

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

I went down at first light, did some filming around and waited for a bit, that northern portal is sinister looking in the dark!

@colinhead5996 5 ай бұрын

Glyn valley Tramway they have some track there now and had a horse drawn wagon working last year at there open week end

@CourtAboveTheCut 4 ай бұрын

I might have to try and get up there for a ride, for educational purposes of course

@DeeFPV 6 ай бұрын

in wales thers like 3 or 4 Aqueduct around neath wales but thers a big one you can walk on this is the name Pontrhydyfen Aqueduct if want to look

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

That wasn’t a canal but a water supply to blast furnaces

@DeeFPV 6 ай бұрын

@@CourtAboveTheCut yes its a canal it uesd to swansey and to neath and up into the vallyes and mabey joine another part of the canal network

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

@@DeeFPV oh it’s not the one I’m thinking of then, I’ll have a read up

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

@@DeeFPV I’ve just checked, Pontrhydyfen was definitely for blast furnaces, there was no canal in port Talbot there were the Neath and tennant canals on the edge up towards Swansea but they don’t go near the aqueduct you mention they run inland but not as far across

@timlodge8267 6 ай бұрын

If a boat is going through the tunnel how does the boat let other barges not to enter at the same time is there a traffic light system?

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

No but you have to have a light on the boat, it’s short enough to see

@MummaBear 6 ай бұрын

Whitehurts = wooded hill.

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

Ah thank you!

@louisjamescarroll2173 6 ай бұрын

Why don't you do working caanals and the ones wihich were restore as well.

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

I love restoration, I do the odd video like this but my channel is mainly about the rebuilding of the canal network and the history of it. I filmed this and nexts weeks video whilst I was there filming on the Monty restoration. I’ll continue to do videos like these but it’s just more restoration on my channel

@jonathanellis1842 6 ай бұрын

It’s the need for water that saved this canal, water is fed from the Dee at horseshoe falls Llangollen and is fed down all the way to Hurston Reservoir.

@CourtAboveTheCut 6 ай бұрын

@@jonathanellis1842yeah I’m going to film that at a later date. I’m just editing the Pontcysyllte video now which I was tempted to add it too, it’s going to be a long edit already though so it’s better for another video

@jonathanellis1842 6 ай бұрын

@@CourtAboveTheCut That is why there is a high flow rate if you navigating West by boat, as they are controlling - feeding water down the canal all the time from the Dee. This is also why many boaters observe when navigating locks the spill ways are very much in action and knock the boat off course before entering the lock chamber.