Hidden Secrets of the Standedge Tunnels

Hidden Secrets of the Standedge Tunnels - Part 3

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A behind the scenes look at the famous Standedge Tunnels, located in between Marsden in West Yorkshire, and Diggle in Greater Manchester. Four tunnels that carry rail and canal services underneath Saddleworth Moor. Once hailed as the longest canal tunnel in the world.
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@jetsons101 5 ай бұрын

I'm always amazed by the amount of work it took to build all that infrastructure considering was built before the advent of powered equipment. Hats off to the workers that provided this Marvel of Victorian Infrastructure. Thanks to Darren for his time, work and posting.

@colinevans39 5 ай бұрын

Yes sadly worked to death with v poor wages 😤😤😤

@jetsons101 5 ай бұрын

I have more respect for a "Ditch Digger" than a guy born with a silver spoon stuck up his rear..... LOL, but really.....@@colinevans39

@deborahleach9106 5 ай бұрын

I took my Grandson on a barge trip part way into the canal tunnel, from the Marsden end last summer & would highly recommend it. A word of warning though - don't sit at the front! Fascinating series Darren. Thank you

@kellettor 5 ай бұрын

This has been ace. I cycled along the towpath to the 'Tunnel End cafe' with family countless times- as kids we'd head off on mini expeditions after being towed down the canal in cheap rubber dinghies 😂

@EngelsNederfiele 5 ай бұрын

The videos on industrial and railway heritage, completely hold my interest and I've really enjoyed them all, keep it up! I do also attempt to watch Martin Zero's videos, but I find your delivery more to my tastes.

@danielbooth2982 5 ай бұрын

Very unique insight and we could tell thst you really enjoyed yourself. Top marks to Network Rail for allowing this series.

@shirleylynch7529 5 ай бұрын

This was brilliant. Loved every second. You are a born story teller Darren. Your enthusiasm rubs off. Enthralling series. Thank you. I am in awe of those builders from all those years ago.

@MarkDenson-ld8bf 5 ай бұрын

As you said Darren the Victorians definitely knew how to do it! Thank you again for another great video

@sarahkellett4926 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for taking us on this fascinating journey. I love seeing things that are hidden to us.

@havingalook2 5 ай бұрын

That was fascinating your series of three. And you are right, you are most lucky to be afforded access to these. And what is nice is that you don't take it for granted, rather you are genuinely grateful and appreciative. Well done.

@JP_TaVeryMuch 5 ай бұрын

12:18 What a beautiful view out of the end of the tunnel too. You can give yourself a good old pat on the back for not only keeping us coming back for the next part, but for being one of a very few channel hosts who can effortlessly keep our interest going for this long on such a potentially dark and dreary topic as an abandoned railway tunnel or four. Brill!

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

Thanks mate

@davidnm21 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating stuff Darren thank you for bringing this series to YT.

@jefflaufer3205 5 ай бұрын

Doing this as a job. What's not to love. The horses probably enjoyed the break from the harnesses and the fresh grass on the hill along the pack horse road. ❤

@davidnorman7761 5 ай бұрын

Darren superb job almost certain you are destined to go up in the world of video and film production.well done Darren.

@simonbradshaw3708 5 ай бұрын

Thank you and your contact at Network Rail for bringing such an interesting set of videos. I've really enjoyed the series and take a look into Victorian engineering.

@1903bretep 5 ай бұрын

A fascinating tour, I know the area well but did not realise just how the 4 tunnels were interconnected , many thanks for showing us that.

@ianlloyd1182 3 ай бұрын

Thanks, an amazing journey back in time. Amazing 19th Century engineering with very basic tools and machines and a lot of man power.

@martinmarsola6477 5 ай бұрын

Thank you as always for the adventure in the tunnel system. Always great seeing you and the video. See you on the next! Cheers Darren. 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

@timmeekings6899 5 ай бұрын

In one of those cross-vents, it looked like someone had their washing hanging up. Just where the walls were yellow coloured.

@suesmith4366 5 ай бұрын

I thought that too 😮

@shirleylynch7529 5 ай бұрын

@@suesmith4366 I thought the same

@U34CH 4 ай бұрын

Yet another superb set of videos. Well done Darren, amazing work, great to see inside this outstanding construction.

@lindseykaine-walley6339 5 ай бұрын

Unbelievable what's hidden. Loved this series you have done on this. As I said to you before you wouldn't get me in a tunnel! So this is the nearest it gets for me!

@michaelmiller641 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating video! Thanks for this series, Darren.

@carterfamilychannel 5 ай бұрын

Great channel Darren! thank you for sharing this with us!

@donlogan9158 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for a fascinating look at Victorian engineering at its best. Your research really makes for a great watch. Keep them coming! Don, Wirral.

@simonrichardson5077 5 ай бұрын

Super work,thanks

@shaunwest3612 5 ай бұрын

Great video Darren, very interesting,👌👍😀

@striderpaul 5 ай бұрын

Truly fascinating, thanking so much for bringing this video to us.

@alanwilson5405 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant series as always I’ve always wanted to know what it must of been like for the navies and how these tunnels were made a great insight into it. The cathedral in the centre looks exceptional.

@malcolmrichardson3881 5 ай бұрын

Great video series on Standage Tunnels. As you say, they knew how to build tunnels back in the day, and still look in very good nick - and in construction, stand in marked contrast to the much earlier canal tunnel. Great stuff. Thank you.

@LewisZilla 5 ай бұрын

Videos like this are part of the reason i find it so annoying when someone says "ive been to the UK" when they've only visited London, there is history EVERYWHERE, London would be lucky to make it onto the top 10 places to be in England let alone the entire UK.

@SmithyScotland 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating.

@johnharrison3635 Ай бұрын

3 fascinating vids, big fan of your channel, you visit and describe so many places I'd never see otherwise. Many years ago I did industrial history at Sheffield uni, it's great to see you bringing it to life. Keep it up ...

@AdventureMe Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@suesmith4366 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating and 😊brilliant Darren something I would never have seen. Thanks 👍🏻😎

@nataliesmith303 5 ай бұрын

A great ending to some fantastic history 😊

@jeffdayman8183 5 ай бұрын

Great video Darren, I enjoyed it. Cheers!

@andybbeck2043 5 ай бұрын

Darren what a series Darren nice you got a great contact at network rail allways so interesting and your presentation is allways spot on .Like your channel alot. Great work

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@michelefoxton1586 5 ай бұрын

Loving this series thank you for sharing x

@davidjames1817 5 ай бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed this fascinating series. Thank you so much. Ps, l keep watching the Ultimate series, still can't believe it's gone!

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@Dan23_7 5 ай бұрын

What a great series this was Darren 👍🏼🇬🇧🇬🇧

@Jamie92208 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the videos I've thoroughly enjoyed them. Just one point. I'm fairly certain that the two original tunnels and the canal tunnel would have been excavated using straight gunpowder, I think that Nitro glycerine wasn't used until the late 1847 but was very hard to handle safely. Then Alfred Nobel made it safer by creating dynamite by mixing nitroglycerine with a powder to make it a solid that was safe to handle in 1857.

@a11csc 5 ай бұрын

brilliant series darren

@leecollett8522 5 ай бұрын

Amazing videos 😊

@paulharvey9149 5 ай бұрын

Lots of adits, but there's nothing like a good shaft, eh Darren? Well done, mate. Lots of good history, there.

@johnjones5754 5 ай бұрын

Nice one mate. That was awesome 👍👍

@christelbraune4530 5 ай бұрын

Das ist unglaublich interessant Hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Das man im Tunnel hören kann wenn ein Zug herran naht. Hätte ich eigentlich wissen müssen 😁. Thank you ❣️❣️ Darren

@hollimurray8856 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant video!!

@cedarcam 5 ай бұрын

The best of the three. A real eye opener seeing the air ventilation working. The orange colour from iron in the water looks beautiful, the Beacon Hill tunnel is like that in places. I nearly always sit on the left side towards Manchester to see the water cascading down at the aqueduct one of my favourite lines.

@chriswilson7124 5 ай бұрын

Great video s Darren enjoyed all three

@roykelly8103 5 ай бұрын

Top stuff Darren. This has been one of my favourite videos. I wonder how many bricks were used in the making of these tunnels?

@tomgirldouble3249 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic another great video😊

@christinehodge3608 2 ай бұрын

Good video, so much History,

@roberte5303 5 ай бұрын

Another excellent video. There was talk of reusing at least one of the original tunnels as few years ago though

@douglasthompson296 5 ай бұрын

Hi Darren a great series has the same vibes as the tunnels and deep docks under the Liverpool Pier Head that you did last year. The trans Pennine rail tunnels just speed past as your sat in comfort(?) and you'd never know what goes into them. Cheers DougT

@JP_TaVeryMuch 5 ай бұрын

5:26 Your comment about the sooty carbon deposits from decades of steam train usage has set me to thinking about how much worse it must have been for the bargees legging it through the canal tunnel once the railway tunnels became operational. The sooty air and the risk of smuts in your eye were bad enough apparently for those of a sensitive nature in a carriage in a steam train passing through a tunnel. What about the slow speed of a narrow boat in the canal tunnel‽ It must have made the crew's experience of "passive sooting" from the locos something to face head on, and it no doubt put hairs on your chest.

@JP_TaVeryMuch 5 ай бұрын

1:14 Some of these vent shafts could perfectly pass for yer classic Prehistoric Caveman's family home, err, cave.

@saraclayton-smithson5083 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic video of things we can’t see….. thank you for sharing this with us. It’s amazing to think it was built by hand all those years ago…. Wow!

@nowt2957 5 ай бұрын

So envious of you, Darren, getting to go to these places. I am now determined to actually take a tour through the canal tunnel at some point this year.

@ste.h9825 5 ай бұрын

Cheers Darren.😊

@richardidle1289 5 ай бұрын

This has been a great series Darren. I’d love to walk that tunnel

@user-om1bf2mb6m 5 ай бұрын

Brilliant.......

@marshallluddite 5 ай бұрын

great seriese thankyou

@Geoffreytomlinson24 5 ай бұрын

Great stuff! Look forward to the next AdventureMe!

@rontanser9369 5 ай бұрын

All three videos were very interesting. Thank you

@dliles773 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing the 3 films

@TheGramophoneGirl 5 ай бұрын

Very interesting, thank you

@ceanothus_bluemoon 5 ай бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed the Standedge trilogy. Wonderful engineering as we would expect from the Victorians.

@barrieshepherd7694 5 ай бұрын

Excellent series Darren.

@fatlad5090 5 ай бұрын

amazing place. must of been hard slog mostly all handball shovels and picks. probably steam drills for the rock. Little tram line to load all dirt onto hard old slog. And didn't take long to build.

@nonoyorbusness 5 ай бұрын

The older tunnels probably predate dynamite, it would have been gunpowder blasting powder. They packed it into the hole they had made before detonating it, hence the half tube like shape left in the wall.

@rubbershorts999 5 ай бұрын

Love the video Darren, brilliant as ever. Can I ask what make are the blue safety gloves you are wearing. Where did you get them? Thanks

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

Network Rail issued. But I kept them

@rubbershorts999 5 ай бұрын

@@AdventureMe 👍

@robertmaitland09 5 ай бұрын

There are 2 shafts that go up to Redbrook engine House on Marsden Moor.

@lezking5060 5 ай бұрын

Oh my! Not even a minute in, and you said "Shaft"!! What a sauce!!!! In fact, this whole video is a bit of a shaft-fest :-O LOL

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

Some bigger than others!

@oddsandwindsocks5905 5 ай бұрын

Superb series Darren. Please explain why all that water is pouring down the air vents even though it wasn't raining i think.

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

From the reservoir above

@oddsandwindsocks5905 5 ай бұрын

@@AdventureMe thankyou for putting me right Darren

@andyreact 5 ай бұрын

There is a trail race over the hill racing the barge 👍

@paulgrimshaw6301 4 ай бұрын

It's well worth reading Trevor Ellis's book "The Standedge Tunnels" if you're interested. Lots of detail on the history and how they were built together with plenty of interesting photos and diagrams. It's available from the Huddersfield Canal website. (I have no connection, but it's worth promoting!) As happens today, the shafts are not just ventilation but were built before the tunnel, the tunnel itself then being bored either way from the bottom. Six shafts drop to the canal tunnel for this purpose, and two new ones for the double railway tunnel (but built over the older railway tunnels). Notoriously the canal tunnel failed to meet in the middle by 8 metres, resulting in a dogleg in the canal near the centre under Redbrook.

@CrownJewelzMusicGroup 5 ай бұрын

Pedalled through this a few times over the years..they should open it up for cyclists an walkers like monsall trail..good video m8 can see a lotta work thats been done.. last time we went up they had put a gate over the original gate so we couldn't get our bikes under the original gate..my m8 nicknamed it the TB TUNNEL 😂😂😂

@raccabird8889 5 ай бұрын

Cool

@rmun386 5 ай бұрын

At 6:47 I thought that you'd accidentally found a short cut to the River Caves at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

Haha. That would be something

@ConradNeill 5 ай бұрын

What is making the knocking sound, starting @02:00? Is it some kind of pump, maybe?

@JP_TaVeryMuch 5 ай бұрын

I eventually put it down to the white van going over maybe regularly placed sleepers in the roadway. Only a guess though.

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

No it's the motion sensors alerting to movement by us

@JP_TaVeryMuch 5 ай бұрын

@@AdventureMe Oh. Clever stuff.

@pyrodoll2422 5 ай бұрын

So is the water running down inside the vents intentional to drag the air down with it creating forced air ventilation?

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

Yes that's right

@pyrodoll2422 5 ай бұрын

@AdventureMe Gotcha. Really works too seeing the air blasting through the adits.

@nigelbarker4135 5 ай бұрын

More impressive than the pyramids 🤔👍🫡👏👏👏

@marksteven6116 5 ай бұрын

First l don't like the dark keep it up like your content

@freddykrueger5159 5 ай бұрын

Do they ever drain the Canal tunnel or is it impossible to do that

@AdventureMe 5 ай бұрын

I have no idea. Shure they have at some point

@stephenclark9917 5 ай бұрын

20th!

@stationhouse5866 5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍😊

@chrisbow1776 5 ай бұрын

Its a shame they do noy open a cycle track through these. Condidering they ar already maintained for the canal, its seems relatively simple to open to the public with the addition of some safety gates blocking off certain points.