I do, and I'm really enjoying it!

Did I know Rebecca now had her own history KZfaq channel?? Nope, but I do now and, yeah, I have subscribed.

Wow! Thanks, Rebecca. I subscribed seconds ago.

subbed

No I didn't but I do now! 👍🙂

This is very true.

She also has the endearing quality of looking bemused at Pauls Welsh pronunciation lol.

Thanks Tony. Yup quite a bit of supporting evidence that agrees. Around 6 miles we think.

Steve Jones yes I saw that too it was amazing! I just love this kind of thing.

Just looked up "Lost Viaduct" on KZfaq. Watching now

Ah thanks Owen.

Fantastic, thanks Jules, yup this was a real adventure for us.

Cheers Shaun.

Thanks Simon and thanks for the sub to Rebecca's channel.

Yup. We love this type of mystery so aiming to do a few more if we can locate them.

Cheers Colin. Bring a shovel!

Ah... army days?

@@pwhitewick Oh yes. A place where you can experience all four seasons in one day, but more often than not it was just cold and wet, even during the summer.

I've heard it can be so windy that you could hit not just your mates target but even hit a target on a neighbouring range!

Is it haunted there or something?

Plenty planned for the year all over so stayed tuned. 👍👍

AKA Geophiz...!

Problem is that it only has a limited depth that it can detect to for ground-disturbances!

Ah yes. That's a whole other video coming out in a couple of weeks. 👍👍

Ah thanks, always try and bring that element to it.

I'll second that. Really look forward to the videos.

Thank you Garyf

Ah yes. That's Talyllyn (Brecon). You'll see that in two-three weeks on the channel.

@@pwhitewick Cool, I'll look forward to seeing that one!

Yup absolutely agree. Finding anything out about this line other than the same article reprinted a few times was hard work. The Llangurig Branch in on our high priority list!

You've got a JCB we can use right??

@@pwhitewick :D If only, I'd love a JCB - got a slight hankering for a diggy dig of my own!

Absolutely we had hoped to have more time here and as you suggest find out more about how a line was built.

Absolutely part of the intrigue is what may have been. No records as such other than newspaper articles etc suggesting the line was being progressed.

We would love to go back. Just need to get some shovels and gear together!

Excellent, we are thinking of doing a video on Tunnels that are now hidden away, the bigger the mystery the better.

We are ALWAYS out of breath lol. Hill or not hill!

@@pwhitewick I have a couple of ventilators you could use. I'll even brand them with Whitewicks abandoned railways..or abandoned lungs ;)

Thanks Paul, glad you are enjoying the videos.

Yup I think the minor road is Army related now.

All aboard all aboard whoah

@@rolandshark2741 👍

Cheers. Always try and get it out when we can. Videos every Wednesday

@@pwhitewick Hope you've got your CAA drone certification!

@@CheshireTomcat68 yup

@@pwhitewick Excitedly waiting for my number!

@@CheshireTomcat68 ours was instant if I recall.

Roger that.

Do it!!

Cheers Simon.

Thank you Kate. Very kind. You never quite know when you are editing you way through it!

Good question regarding scrap. My guess is the masonry was a worthy commodity so in taking it, it could be sold on and perhaps used elsewhere for the company and its creditors to gain a little back from its losses.

Thanks John. A bit more sun would have been nice but you can't win them all.

@@pwhitewick I think that was pretty good weather for Wales anyway! I didn't detract at all from the production; far from it in fact. Keep up the good work.

Most definitely was for us 👍👍

...I am pretty sure Martin would be there like a shot with his helmet and torch at the ready.

Yankee Clipper stuff the steam i want it to be where the srategic blue pullmans are lol

The strategic steam reserve is being kept in running order, even as I type this, on every preserved steam railway in the country. In the event of a national emergency they would simply be requisitioned by government.

We had hoped to find at least one but there was countless earthworks above making it close to impossible to distinguish.

@@pwhitewick Maybe try someone with ground radar to look for sub-terranean disturbance.

Cheers Davie. Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the suggestions Locky, yup we have those on our list to tick off at some point soon... or at least Post Lockdown.

Cheers 👍👍

Yup! God ole shovel me thinks.

I had the same thought - so many episodes of Time Team led me that way. I wonder if there's a University Archelogy bod somewhere with access to such kit who might be interested?

I'm genuinely questioning how we can approach this.... Seriously.

Yup we will be up at Radstock later this year. As for shafts I can think of a few that didn't have any. Mainly they were for construction as opposed to ventilation.

Ps, I posted that BEFORE I knew the tunnel was finished.

It does look like it in that shot but sadly it's just a mountain of vegetation

Cheers Samantha. Sadly we know very little... as much as you do now. I do feel it was all masonry though and sold off for other projects. I guess. We loved making this film. Really good fun.

Farmers permission would be everything on this project. There after organisation of all safety aspects, I feel we would have plenty of knowledgeable viewers able to assist with that. 👍👍

It's work in progress further on there is embankments that just comes to an abrupt end I believe they did lay an engineer's line on part of it

I can only assume some of it had some landslip? There was apparently a line up to and into part of the tunnel, so the embankment must have been complete at one stage.

Most railways that have been closed eventually remove the rails, either for another job or sold for scrap. And often the alignments are sold too the locals, at least in part. Unfortunatly forward planning is never a forte of Govts world wide. Usually the next month is as far as they go. In reality the alignments should be kept so in another era they may become viable again. Gating tunnels too is a sound process as is at least basic maintenance on them. We see them with steel gates or bricked up but with wire mesh etc at the top, so the tunnels can at least have some chance of staying dry.

Recently here I have searched Google Earth for raillines/ alignments here in South Oz. Surprisingly they are not even mentioned. Best I got was some stations on the local lines. As here in South Oz stupidly we have broad guage for local lines and std guage nationally. Near 200 years and they cannot yet get their acts together and all 3 of our metro lines have been rebuilt in the last 30 years,,, broadguage. The reason that metro trains cannot go out of metro. But with now very new large suburbs and near city rural towns with large population increases. There is existing lines or at least alignments available. But lets have two different guages,, and worse the waste of money electric trains have to be towed by diesel ones for maintenance.But hey we are green because we have electric trains on one out of 3 main lines.

I'll get your coat 😊

@@tonyblack1964 Why thank you sir....

Great stuff, thanks for sharing that Daniel.

Haha, yes, I suspect we would be there too!

Cheers Bob. Yup that's definitely on the cards. Found both portals on the map.

And of course the never started Myherin Tunnel west of Llangurig close to Roman Fortlet of Cae Gaer

I'm not sure where I got "Brock" from!?

I would love nothing more than that!

Me too!!

Thanks Chris. Yes that's a good point, I am sure there would be significant amounts of water in there slowly seeping through.

Yup that was a clip from our video in a few weeks on the Talyllyn Junction and tunnel.

Great stuff thanks Geoff.

Pronounced lan-gam-uck

Thanks Tom. Interestingly this is how Roger pronounced it. Why not "Clan" for the LLan?

@@pwhitewick I've no idea but I can find out.

@@tomstickland make it so. (Please).

High praise. Thank you. Yes Timeteam from here would be amazing.

uhmmm..... 1867 was a long time before the MOD existed

David Gatt the portals of the tunnel I was told where blown up by the MOD, l wonder why?

This sound alright up our Street Mick. Can you give more detail?

Whitewick's Abandoned Railways the tunnel was near birdwell barnsley and was to be part of the south yorks railway later great centrel rly blackburn vally route from barnsley to sheffield The line left barnsley and called at stairfoot (originaly ardsley no trace of station but on a cylce way ) then to dove cliff ( platform edge survives in under growth) then to birdwell and hoyland common( no trace ) this station was moved when the tunnel was abandoned making it more inconvenient for birdwell and hoyland common then westwood ( some minor signs of station remain but not much) then to chapeltown central (station buldings survive as a private house with intact waiting rooms recently sold for 320,000 Then to ecclesfield central ( no trace ) then to grange lane (station house survives) then to meadow hall and wincobank ( station buildings survive ) then to sheffield victoria( few traces on what is now supertram route) Barnsley to stairfoot is cycle track as is meadow hall to chapel town , west wood is in a country park and many of the other overgrown parts can be Walked, the line was axed as a through route when the m1 was built as no money for bridge, i believe the air shafts for the abandoned tunnel survive, Well worth a visit if your in south yorkshire , Convicts tunnel popular with paranormal investigaters is on this line , chapel town central is supposed to be haunted by a us sevicemen, The line was the scene of a fatal runaway accident in 1911 and at stairfoot where some wagons ran away in barnsley goods yard and crashed into a train in stairfoot station, the south yorks rly were that tight that they tried to avoid paying compensation to a man who jumped clear just as the wagons hit by claiming he left the train whilst it was in motion.

@@mickd6942 wonderful thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

@@mickd6942 Yes South Yorkshire is a good one. My house in Catcliffe backs onto a very high embankment for a railway that closed in the 90s leading from the Catcliffe viaduct to the old marshalling yards. There was the old Catcliffe station that closed in the 1940's which was located right about where my house backs onto but i cant find any traces of it up there although im not sure what to look for

Roland Shark yes in a five mile radius around barnsley their are so many closed railways it was like the rail version of spageti junction , mostly for coal but the companys were so competative most places round here were served by two lines lms and gcr and most pits had access to both companys lines, winter is best time to look for reminants when undergrowth has died back