Thanks to Paul and Rebecca for a great day. here is the link to their Channel kzfaq.info Paul and Rebeccas video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qM-TgM2ErbjZqpc.html

I went through this tunnel about 5 years ago so probably still accessible. It's much drier from the other end and gets progressively deeper in mud. There are some iron supports about midway through in a kind of box shape. Great to see it.

Great to see another collaboration with the Whitewicks

Another video where I'm so frustrated by our industrial history just being left to rot.... beautiful video though Mr Z, thankyou!

Absolutely amazing you were able to find that old photo of the drum atop those foundations that are still there. Love your videos Martin!

Another super video Martin. Good to see you and the Whitewicks joining up to make it. Just a note - Froghall is pronounced 'Frogall', and the railway in the Churnet Valley north from Froghall station does still exist - as the heritage Churnet Valley Railway. I am a volunteer signalman at Consall, the next station up the valley from Froghall and a very beautiful spot only accessible by train, by canal, or by a tortuous narrow dead-end road down into the valley. If you are ever there while I'm on duty, come into the 'box for a cuppa. Later, a standard gauge railway was built from the Churnet valley Line at Leekbrook Junction to Cauldon Lowe quarries to bring the limestone out which spelled the end of the tramways. That railway still exists as part of the heritage Churnet Valley railway as far as Ipstones. Interestingly, the light railway order that authorised that covered the line from Stoke to Leekbrook and Leekbrook to Cauldon as single track standard gauge, and onwards via Waterhouses to Hulme end as narrow gauge, the long lost manifold valley line, now a cycleway / footpath

I love the way you go quiet when showing something special. The architecture speaks for itself very eloquently.

On this weeks show, Paul pokes a stick into the ground, Rebecca shows us some cold chips and Martin does a lot of huffing and puffing. Great stuff Martin. Cheers

Three of my favorite people all together on a Sunday afternoon! I was wondering why I got two notifications simultaneously 😁

Awesome.... watching now. Thanks for having us along. A great day was had. Cheese and Egg all round.

one thing i love about the uk is every 80 miles or so the accent changes and bread rolls have a different name!

Great video, loved that intricate masonry on the tunnel entrance!

I love these crossover videos, huge fan of both channels

The music on your channel is consistently sublime. The best soundtracked KZfaq channel I have come across

Hi Martin, wow just wow, what an awesome and very interesting video. I loved listening to the history and seeing the old photographs too but the 1779 bridges and the Trubshaw tunnel was just amazing to see. The Trubshaw tunnel is just stunning when you consider how many bricks it would have taken to build and how many workers that would have been needed to get the job done, an awesome feat for it's day. You definitely took the right decision in not going into the tunnel though as that is the kind of mud that would let you sink down but getting your foot back out would have been near impossible. Another awesome video from you, I thoroughly enjoyed watching so thank you for all your hard work to make the video possible and thank you also to the lovely couple who gave us the history of the area. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖

Another interesting video Thank you Martin, Paul and Rebecca.

Fantastic stuff. Little bits of encapsulated history that you might find in a book but brought to life be your visits. Many thanks guys!

Thank you Martin, another really good film and a collaboration with the lovely Paul and Rebecca, what a Sunday treat. I like to see lime kilns built today last as long as the ones you discovered at Froghall. The vintage photograph of the incline lifting gear was brilliant, what a contraption, but once again, it worked. The dressed stone on the arches and bridges as well as the beautiful tunnel was a joy. I laughed about the egg and cheese bap, still trying to work out if I can accept that as an option. Best wishes to all three of you. Nick.

Only discovered this channel yesterday. Bloody brilliant. Keep up the great work!

Great video, so enjoy seeing and listening to the history.

Fascinating exploration of the early phases of rail transportation! The old photo's were fantastic. Well done to you and the Whitewick's.

nice collaboration with the Whitewicks. it’s amazing how two people can have the same video shots of the same locations and tell different stories but with the same enthusiasm and understanding.

Enjoyed the video martin, those cottages were beautiful! 🔴🟡🟢

Great collab Martin! These videos of out-of-the-way places, rivers, tunnels and artefacts are an enjoyment to watch. Keep safe, from Florida in the U.S.

Great video!! love the lost tramways - Great collab

1sr class as always martin and a big thanks equally to Mr and Mrs Whytwick xxx

That drum had an obvious cable from the bottom, but also one at the top, so it looks like it was a 2 line balance system, heavy wagons go down one line pulling the empty ones up, that explains the brake men I thik it was the angle rails that trevithick used to demonstrate his steam locomotive from merthyr tydfil to cardiff/barry docks (you should look on railmaps at the old dock railways, there's loads of lines) However, the locomotive broke the rails, but it was still the start of steam locomotion. That tunnel alrewady had mist, you don't know what was in the mist, safest to stay out.

Brilliant video, brilliant guests. Loved the pic of the drum, well found. It's a batch here in Coventry!

Great video as usual. What a difference a hundred years makes! Fantastic photos of the past.

Superb Martin! Local to me that was, and there was so much more history around you to film another time! Hopefully!.a solid 10

Another great video thanks Martyn. Really enjoyed that

Thanks Martin, truly impressive build upon these Tunnels. Was amazed around the 25min mark. That entrance/exit was well built & excellently engineered. No possibility of being re-purposed, that's a shame. Good view, thanks to you.

Stunning history,beautiful scenery, thanks for the video, safety first!

Martin I am constantly surprised anew at the sheer beauty of where you live and ramble!

Great adventure! Thank you all!

Just incredible and what a real treat walking the historical pathway where those trams used to run. The music during the Trubshaw tunnel tour was perfect. Quick Google search yielded some photos from inside the tunnel from others that have visited it when the mud wasn't so bad.

wonderful adventure and the runnel architecture was splendid.

As ever, Martin, quality, excellent quality. But where's James with the tea?

Enjoyable collaboration investigating an interesting topic.

Great video Martin, fascinating tunnel as well, so well built

Another wonderous video! Loved it

Wonderful collaboration Martin.

Another brilliant video, and co-incidentaly I was near Cauldon Low last week, looking at Ribden Mine, a disused lead mine.

Thank you all for sharing, loved thé nature and thé old story with thé tunnels, so awesome to see, loved it all. Roos 🙋🏻‍♀️👊🏻💪🏻🤗😊

Glad you persevered to the tunnel entrance. Beautiful entrance.

Walked the tunnel about 15 years ago, from the otherend, the silt is not so deep at that end, and came out at your end, all the way through you could feel a very hard surface underneath the silt, so it is do able, worth going back and having another go, there are some strengtherners mid way through what are interesting.

Fabulous. So interesting. Fantastic filming. Really appreciate all the exploring you do on our behalf. Brilliant vlog as always.

Great video, many thanks from us in Canada. Mrs. Whitewick is always looking effortlessly nice. Prof. Paul always impresses with his research. The three of you work so hard and diligently to educate and inform us.

Excellent collaboration, Martin, and a that's a top shirt, chief. Beautiful day for it, too. Nice one.

Another great video Martin

Cracking vid, think Paul and Rebecca are awesome too - already subbed to their channel for a while. Loved seeing that tunnel at the end, what an impressive structure! You're absolutely right, you can't risk it with all that mud and possible gasses!

What a brilliant video very interesting Martin, Paul and Rebecca all set in a beautiful landscape, looks like you had a fun time and I feel I have had a lovely walk. That's it brew time I'm tired out!

Wow, how fantastic, thank you xx

Brilliant Martin. As always very interesting

The tunnel is beautiful! The architecture is a sight! Wish we had work like this today…

Froghall and the surrounding area is so full of industrial archeology and history. It’s a fascinating area. Once I discovered it I returned several times to explore in different directions. Thanks for this video.

Will enjoy this later. Thanks Martin and the Whitewicks.

Great video Martin and nice to see Paul and Rebecca xxx

Another great video. You always do your homework very informative.

What a great episode. Happy to see Paul And Rebecca as I watch there videos also! England is such a lovely country! Great Video Martin!

Great bit of cooperation between you guys

Awesome I look forward to yours and trmz vids on a Sunday 👍👍👍

A very interesting video, I thoroughly enjoyed it. We say Cobs in Leicestershire 😆 Good to see you with Paul & Rebecca, they do some great videos as well...😀👍👍

Boy am I late, Just got home, cold coffee and all.... Great intro and drone work as usual. The arch stonework is top-notch craftsmanship, art of sorts. Look like a great lunch, wish I was there. That refuge look a bit deep into the wall, maybe it was something else like a walk way into a store room, just thinking. Thanks to you and team Whitewick the for all your work....

Great History! Amazing how you found the photo of the incline cable wheel, and whats left of the foundation now! always nice to see you exploring with the Whitewicks too! When you think about how many people it took to build and run them all those years ago!

Thanks for another great and informative video, been following your channel for some time and really enjoy the content. Im still convinced our paths have crossed back in the 1980’s in our Younger days..

I think the history is beautifully told, I enjoy it.

You, Paul and Rebecca make an exellent team. Hope to see more combined projects from you in the future. Thank you for taking us along!

Similar Tramway that I pass quite often close to Manchester, Tramway from Dove-hole village near Buxton down to the Peak Forrest Canal at Buxworth basin near Whaley bridge. There is good research as well on the tramway

brilliant video, thanks

Quintuple wythe! Such a handsome entrance. So well built. Beautiful.

Great video friend thank you 😊

Another FUN adventure!!

Great video with the collaboration of the Whitewicks, I love how you found the old photo's of the drum that was on those foundations. It's hard to believe the age of those tram ways and how long they was. Shame about the tunnel but the entrance was worth seeing all the same what a lovely piece of engineering with six layers of brick making the portal up. I agree it was way too dangerous to enter the tunnel hence like you said not fenced off.

Next time going in the wet without waders, you might consider removing your socks. Dumping the water out of your shoes, letting them drain for a minute and your feet to dry in the sun, then putting on dry socks makes the rest of the hike much more comfortable (but obviously the socks will get wet - yet not as wet as yours got while wading).

Spectacular!

That was very interesting!

Hey Martin. Great video. FAB-ulous T-shirt. 👍👍

Fascinating, and good cooperation there!

Love the old photos comparisons to the actual sites. Interesting video as always. Great work Martin.

The cow was the true hero of this weeks video. Loved it.

Lots of tramways in my bit of s/ York’s , one at silkstone used small square blocks under the rails instead of sleepers which are still there and a replica tramway wagon stands on a plinth in silkstone village , in a wood near stainborough there is a tramway tunnel but the entrance is gated off but you can see into it , while building the m1 they found a stash of tramway wagon wheels, think most were to get coal to canal basins from collieries.

Martin your intro photography is beautiful! Loved the whole vid. Too bad the tunnel was so full of mud. It looked very interesting and so well built.

The narrow canals and locks, in England, are fascinating to me. I'm a retired Civil Engineer and find that the genius of 200+ years ago is incredible. BTW, Mary Mansfield just did a tour of a canal this week. For the fun of it, you could measure the thread pitch when you run into old anchor bolts. In the US, we didn't really standardized threads until WWII. Many companies had their own thread pitches so that you had to buy parts from them. In some cases, the pitch allows you to date and know the manufacturer. Among my old tools, from the 1960s, are part of a set of Witworth sockets and wrenches(NEVER LOAN TOOLS!). I owned MGs and Triumphs in those days. SAE tools wouldn't work and confused me at first. Thanks for another very interesting visit. It was smart to not go into that culvert. Stupidity can be very painful. Good Luck, Rick

Very interesting, and what an amazing tunnel 👏 wonderful as ever 👍👍

Once again a great video!

On parts of this very interesting video Martins hand and arm movements match perfectly with the international rescue top he is wearing in the Brook I could almost hear that famous theme tune 😀

Another fantastic vid Martin. Best from Madrid

Great to see this collaboration. Interesting to see both your versions of a fascinating subject. BTW Martin - egg and cheese go reasonably well together even in Manchester: scrambled egg with cheese, cheese omelette.

Wow the brickwork of the tunnel. What a reward!!

Good one, more please.

Love these vids I live in nuneaton full of old lines too the quarrys an mines especially near the canal few old bridges still standing an abuttnents remaining over the road to atherstone

Absolutely fascinating and I have to go out before seeing it to the end, but I'll be back!

Great video Martin 😊

Fantastic video, so different to the Whitewicks one, just loved it. That stonework on tunnels was gorgeous such a shame you couldn’t go in. Mind you if you had gone in and got stuck being me I would have really laugh 😂. Glad you safe tho. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care

very interesting as usual

Crikey - three of my favourite KZfaqrs on one video! Thunderbirds are go!

Another excellent video Martin. Talking about strange food combinations the national dish of the Isle of Man is cheese chips and gravy. Yum 😋

very interesting, love the picture of the big old brake drum. We have an old tramway up here but a bit later 1799 it opened but the pit had elm rails underground around 1785

Another great video between Martin and the whitwicks