Fabulous video. That amazing tunnel. The viaduct. The scenery. All the original photos. Excellent. Well done Ant. I marvel at all those builders from long ago. Their work still “living” today. Amazing. Thank you.
Wonderful beautiful viaduct, with the superb landscape, totally agree how this peace of architecture art just complements its surroundings. As again another superb video, look forward very much to your next vision.
There's One Thing That Stands Out Above All Others Ant, And That's Not Just Your Wonderful Footage And Dialogue But The Music Scores You Add To Them. A Cut Above IMO And I Always Look Forward To Your Next Trek. Keep Doing What You're Doing Matey, You're a Star. 👍
I was in the area a fair few years ago through work and, over the course of a few evenings that week, walked a great deal of the length of this line. At that point in time all the tunnels were, alas, bricked up but I made the walk over the viaduct and then went and had a drink in the pub/cafe overlooking the viaduct. Great to know that the tunnels are now all open and the line has been repurposed in this way. Some lovely drone shots, too 🙂
Very enjoyable. We visited Monsal Head so many times as kids. If you do go back, try the walk down the Wye from the viaduct to a car park on the A6 at White Lodge. There's a big weir partway down we used to play on - and I am not quite sure what its function was!!
It was great travelling along this line on the London's and the locals, but you couldn't appreciate it like you can now. This is a great video, Ant, going through the cutting, the tunnel and across the viaduct. It was good looking up at the viaduct from underneath, a long time since I saw that. Great video shots, especially of the Class 45 Peaks. Remember them well, with haulage along that line. Many thanks.
Nice one Ant, another great watch. The next stretch into Buxton is very interesting as well with some industrial history, a couple of further tunnels and bridges. Thanks as always
Thanks once again for the brilliant video, I love the viaduct a fantastic bit of engineering that we probably couldn't do today. I'm so lucky to live just 4 miles away from hewenden viaduct near cullingworth. Keep up the exemplary standard you put in your content. 👍👍👍
What a brilliant video thanks Ant. Love those bridges. Of course the viaduct is fantastic. Loved the area too. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Every year I walk this line to Bakewell..the view from the viaduct is my heart's desire. All that is beautiful about this country. Every year until I can't walk any more. Then I'll get an electric bike. The next most fab view is on a train across the Harringworth viaduct. ❤
Stunningly good structures, but that's what we expect from the Victorians. If only we could make anything as attractive and functional now. I doubt whether much built in the last few decades will stand the test of time. I'd never seen footage of trains going over the viaduct...fabulous!
Absolutely loving this series, Ant. My first experience of this area was 1969 when my junior school took us on a ramble along the old line. The tracks hadn't been lifted then and I was petrified that a train would come at any moment. You could still walk through the tunnels and the station at Monsal Dale was still there with the two viaducts. Happy days.
Superb Ant! I did a lot of walking there in the 1960s when the railway was still in operation, and just after the railway closed with my mate and his dad. We often walked along Monsal Dale from Millers Dale, then over to Taddington and Blackwell Mill, and back to Millers Dale. I went back there years later in 1976 and walked the line from Bakewell to Blackwell and back to Buxton when the tunnels were still open and unlit, it was a lovely I walk I remember well. I like the old colour slide @ 10:55, it's just how I remember those wonderful years. Thanks for an excellent well researched video, it's greatly appreciated and one I will often come back to watch.
I travelled this line in 1965 on our way to 3 years in Zambia of steam and Garretts. Superb drone footage especially the low level pass along the top. Lots of love. David and Lily.
Excellent vid as always ant . Guess is a little easier when you have such stunning scenery to film . Have to go up and visit this someday soon . Must have been amazing to travel along this line back in the day .
Awesome . a hot summer day before Covid I got my Partner on there with her mobility scooter ! from Bakewell through that tunnel to the viaduct . Had to turn round because worried about her battery range !
Another cracking video Ant, looking forward to the third instalment . Remember cycling through Headstone with my then partner and she said its a bit dark, I told her it might help if she removed her sunglasses!
Rode the train through many years ago from Leicester to Manchester. Then 2 years ago I rode the route both ways by bike with my youngest son. The views are fantastic as is the whole area as far as scenery goes. It's been very enjoyable to see the viaduct from below as that's one viewpoint I haven't seen it from. Thanks for super video Ant, really grateful for the effort you made to get those shots!
Great series Ant. Just watched Parts 1&2 back to back. Really enjoyed them. The drone footage combined with the archive film and photos really highlights what the line was like. Fingers crossed that it does eventually get reopened. Looking forward to Part 3 👍🏼😊
Excellent video Ant, could have looked very different in monsal Dale as if the Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast railway had been built it would have crossed the Midland line after the viaduct on an iron viaduct that would have been the highest in Britain Cheers Russ
And would have been yet another closed line 10 years before this one probably 😮 (hard to envisage how it would have been routed out of Chesterfield too)
Some great archive and aerial footage of this magnificent route. Thank you. It would be nice to see parts reopened, but shared use and steam working could be a problem because of the tunnels.
when I was 7 years old my dad and I walked through the tunnel the track was down. In 1967 he told me about the dragon you see the soot on the walls from the smoke thank you for this memory
Absolutely epic production in this series 👍🏻The choice of filming techniques and stirring music and old footage was very moving and the narrative too. As much as I'd like to see track and trains once more, I'd hate how they'd have to make it safe and envisage an ugly barrier between track and trek. It can also be a busy route with a mixture of users and they don't always respect each other, sadly, so by narrowing it, it'd be a bloodbath 😂 Looking forward to future episodes😊
Headstone tunnel is indeed an absolute marvel, turning almost 90 degrees and descending toward Monsal Head. Remarkable. Having said that, Haddon tunnel was equally remarkable for its "cut and cover" construction. However, this came at a cost, payed for in human lives.
I find the safety cage looks like you’re about to walk into a Jurassic Park enclosure! I can see why it’s there though. The portal looks quite precarious in the 1953 picture! Such a lovely tunnel. Love that it’s accessible for all to enjoy. It looks exactly like Pendinas Tunnel between Tregarth and Bethesda. That one’s an ex Bangor- Bethesda standard gauge line. Love a good tunnel! That one also opens up onto a bridge. Not quite the same as this viaduct but still pretty. 10:33 - a blot on the landscape?! Pah he knew nothing about railway architecture! However very poetic way to say he didn’t like it. As you say later in the video, the structure blends in well into the landscape unlike modern day roads. It’s a picture postcard situation. Beautiful, absolutely stunning. Reopening the line with shared usage is a brilliant idea. Love all the old clips of trains crossing the viaduct. Gosh how I’d love to have been around during the golden age of steam.
I don't think the bars under the arches are anything to do with tension - I believe they are to stop people from swinging under the arches on bungee lines. It is stunning engineering and a wonderful walk.
You missed the highlight! The view of the viaduct in it's wider setting from the Monsal Head Hotel above! Always climb up there to pause for a pint and take in the beauty. Perhaps my favourite view in the UK! A
Beautiful video. I love the way you use the grand music for grand constructions. I'm not sure having a train and a path crossing the viaduct is such a good idea though. I think they would be a bit too close for comfort.
Welcome back to my area Ant - @ 6:22 I have also ridden through the Tunnels at Night Time - I know what you mean - complete dark apart from the little green light on the Main Lights projecting a green light to the Track Bed!!! @ 9:33 Your standing next to the Steep path which goes up to the Monsal Head Hotel where I work!!! @ 10:30 I know it as the Monsal Viaduct!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
Ruskin was wrong🙄 What a glorious structure, complementing the countryside. Amazing to have built it straight out of the tunnel but to have a bend in it, well, that's just showing off😂😂😂 Superb episode Ant👍👍👍👍 (What have I told you before about standing too close to the edge??!!!)
To think that blue Pullman was Thundering across with services between Manchester Central and St Pancras station as the next great step in fast modern travel…What went wrong?…Sad
How about getting a Group together to Promote a light railway/tram route, to attract tourist(with an aging population I for one would be tempted, if not expected to walk far)
7:55/6 Trig Points(Trigonometry the stuff most people hated at school)that without which Maps wouldn't exist, Ordinance Survey check out it's History, It's how us old gits did it b4 Google, and it's why you see white squares painted on roadways, around the UK,
Thanks for showing such a beautiful masterpiece. Those cyclists should really be going slower when they are sharing the same pathway as pedestrians though.
This goes both ways, as many walking groups tend to block the way and then become belligerent when asked politely to move over. And then you get the dog owners with their 20ft leashes.
When seeing this viaduct I am always reminded of the film Blue Max when two WW1 German pilots challenge each other to fly through the arches on a viaduct, the larges first then smaller until one fails. The problem here though is the valley turning 90 deg left hander after the bridge up the valley. Also the stream after a tailings pond failed near Peak Forest some years ago, the water was green as the nasty harmful waste flowed down stream.
Can you make your content inclusive by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning please? it is extremely hard to watch it relying only on the auto captioning sadly (I'm Profoundly Deaf)
Fabulous video. That amazing tunnel. The viaduct. The scenery. All the original photos. Excellent. Well done Ant. I marvel at all those builders from long ago. Their work still “living” today. Amazing. Thank you.
Brilliant video Ant!
Great archive footage, especially of the Blue Pullman crossing the viaduct. 🙂👍
Wonderful beautiful viaduct, with the superb landscape, totally agree how this peace of architecture art just complements its surroundings. As again another superb video, look forward very much to your next vision.
There's One Thing That Stands Out Above All Others Ant, And That's Not Just Your Wonderful Footage And Dialogue But The Music Scores You Add To Them. A Cut Above IMO And I Always Look Forward To Your Next Trek. Keep Doing What You're Doing Matey, You're a Star. 👍
what an absolute pleasure to watch this series Ant
I was in the area a fair few years ago through work and, over the course of a few evenings that week, walked a great deal of the length of this line. At that point in time all the tunnels were, alas, bricked up but I made the walk over the viaduct and then went and had a drink in the pub/cafe overlooking the viaduct. Great to know that the tunnels are now all open and the line has been repurposed in this way. Some lovely drone shots, too 🙂
Fantastic video. Nice archive footage too. This is what I have been basing my model railway on for the last 10 years.😊
Very enjoyable. We visited Monsal Head so many times as kids. If you do go back, try the walk down the Wye from the viaduct to a car park on the A6 at White Lodge. There's a big weir partway down we used to play on - and I am not quite sure what its function was!!
Marvellous video (again) and a fabulous tunnel and viaduct. Can't wait for the next part! Derbyshire is magnificent.
It was great travelling along this line on the London's and the locals, but you couldn't appreciate it like you can now. This is a great video, Ant, going through the cutting, the tunnel and across the viaduct. It was good looking up at the viaduct from underneath, a long time since I saw that. Great video shots, especially of the Class 45 Peaks. Remember them well, with haulage along that line. Many thanks.
Thank you for another really enjoyable video and sharing with us some of the history of the line. I look forward to the next video.
Nice one Ant, another great watch. The next stretch into Buxton is very interesting as well with some industrial history, a couple of further tunnels and bridges. Thanks as always
Thanks once again for the brilliant video, I love the viaduct a fantastic bit of engineering that we probably couldn't do today.
I'm so lucky to live just 4 miles away from hewenden viaduct near cullingworth. Keep up the exemplary standard you put in your content. 👍👍👍
Thanks again. I enjoy these short videos.
Again such beautiful narrative on the beauty of a former railway 👍🏻👍🏻
What a brilliant video thanks Ant. Love those bridges. Of course the viaduct is fantastic. Loved the area too. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Every year I walk this line to Bakewell..the view from the viaduct is my heart's desire. All that is beautiful about this country. Every year until I can't walk any more. Then I'll get an electric bike. The next most fab view is on a train across the Harringworth viaduct. ❤
Amazing footage really enjoying this series. The scenery is so beautiful. We have walked it many times. Looking forward to the next video.
Stunningly good structures, but that's what we expect from the Victorians. If only we could make anything as attractive and functional now. I doubt whether much built in the last few decades will stand the test of time. I'd never seen footage of trains going over the viaduct...fabulous!
Wow, what a fantastic bit of scenery that line used to have for its passengers
Another fabulous video keep them comming 👌
Thanks very much for watching Alan
Brilliant video, your enthusiasm is so infectious, and the scenery, and the landscape is amazing. Keep up the great videos.
Absolutely loving this series, Ant. My first experience of this area was 1969 when my junior school took us on a ramble along the old line. The tracks hadn't been lifted then and I was petrified that a train would come at any moment. You could still walk through the tunnels and the station at Monsal Dale was still there with the two viaducts. Happy days.
I'll be looking forward to seeing the rest of this route
Superb Ant! I did a lot of walking there in the 1960s when the railway was still in operation, and just after the railway closed with my mate and his dad. We often walked along Monsal Dale from Millers Dale, then over to Taddington and Blackwell Mill, and back to Millers Dale. I went back there years later in 1976 and walked the line from Bakewell to Blackwell and back to Buxton when the tunnels were still open and unlit, it was a lovely I walk I remember well. I like the old colour slide @ 10:55, it's just how I remember those wonderful years. Thanks for an excellent well researched video, it's greatly appreciated and one I will often come back to watch.
I travelled this line in 1965 on our way to 3 years in Zambia of steam and Garretts.
Superb drone footage especially the low level pass along the top.
Lots of love.
David and Lily.
Excellent vid as always ant . Guess is a little easier when you have such stunning scenery to film .
Have to go up and visit this someday soon .
Must have been amazing to travel along this line back in the day .
Awesome . a hot summer day before Covid I got my Partner on there with her mobility scooter ! from Bakewell through that tunnel to the viaduct . Had to turn round because worried about her battery range !
Incredible video! Very well put together. I love how informative it was and how you edited it all together. Keep up the great work dude
Glad you enjoyed it Andy thanks very much 😀
@ no problem man 😌
Another cracking video Ant, looking forward to the third instalment . Remember cycling through Headstone with my then partner and she said its a bit dark, I told her it might help if she removed her sunglasses!
Great vid Ant, enjoyed exploring the trail myself, looking forward to the next part
Please keep up the good work. Great videos!
Hey Ant your videos are great !Thanks for sharing cheers 🥂
Rode the train through many years ago from Leicester to Manchester. Then 2 years ago I rode the route both ways by bike with my youngest son. The views are fantastic as is the whole area as far as scenery goes. It's been very enjoyable to see the viaduct from below as that's one viewpoint I haven't seen it from. Thanks for super video Ant, really grateful for the effort you made to get those shots!
Great series Ant. Just watched Parts 1&2 back to back. Really enjoyed them. The drone footage combined with the archive film and photos really highlights what the line was like. Fingers crossed that it does eventually get reopened.
Looking forward to Part 3 👍🏼😊
Brilliant video many thanks 👍🏻
Thanks for watching Steven 😊
Not walked on the Monsal Trail for years... Must correct that!
Keep up the great videos.
Great Video... super place been so many times.... be nice to do 1 on Buxton too Mate... some right railway up that way .. cheers for all your efforts
Excellent video Ant, could have looked very different in monsal Dale as if the Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast railway had been built it would have crossed the Midland line after the viaduct on an iron viaduct that would have been the highest in Britain
Cheers Russ
And would have been yet another closed line 10 years before this one probably 😮 (hard to envisage how it would have been routed out of Chesterfield too)
Really enjoying this series. Wonderful scenery. We have walked it many times. Looking forward to part 3.
It's lovely isn't it? Thank you for watching 😊
yeah more bridge and railroad and tunnel will be amazing
Some great archive and aerial footage of this magnificent route. Thank you. It would be nice to see parts reopened, but shared use and steam working could be a problem because of the tunnels.
If got down to the river and walked just round the bend there is a Lovely waterfall hidden gem
Pay attention 007. This is what hiking is all about. I walked this route just after the tunnel re opened in 2011. Epic.
But did you walk it before the tunnel re-opened M ?
@martinpawley647 Yes, over the moor in 2006 and had a beer in the Monsal hotel. Only place I've cone across that had Becks on tap.
Sorry to be boring, but I prefer water😂😂😂LOL
@@martinpawley647You are boring if you watched it at least say something kind.
@@martinpawley647 could be worse, you could drink shandy :)
when I was 7 years old my dad and I walked through the tunnel the track was down. In 1967 he told me about the dragon you see the soot on the walls from the smoke thank you for this memory
Wonderful stuff again, thanks Ant.
Glad you enjoyed it Jon
Thankyou for this episode 👍👌
Thank you for watching 🙂
Superb Ant
Thanks very much Trevor
Great video Ant. Walk this 8 years ago when on holiday. Need to go back
Thanks very much. It's so glorious around there
Thanks!
Very kind thank you
Hi there
thanks for doing this film. have been to the Monsel Head Hotel and looked down on this but did not have time to walk it. Caroline.
Absolutely epic production in this series 👍🏻The choice of filming techniques and stirring music and old footage was very moving and the narrative too. As much as I'd like to see track and trains once more, I'd hate how they'd have to make it safe and envisage an ugly barrier between track and trek. It can also be a busy route with a mixture of users and they don't always respect each other, sadly, so by narrowing it, it'd be a bloodbath 😂 Looking forward to future episodes😊
Nice walk in a nice landscape
Thanks very much for watching 🙂
Great video I’ve subbed to your channel
I've been walking this route for years. There's always something else you notice on each visit.
Stunning drone footage, Ant and a brilliant video 🤩 Really looking forward to the next episode
Thanks very much Vicky. I'm on my way back today to finish it off 😀
Where will you be? 😃
@vickybatchelor6858 between Hassop and Chee Dale I need to do the far end torwards Buxton so gonna hire a bike 😂😂
That should be fun 😂 Where will you hire your bike from, towards Bakewell or closer to Buxton? I'm in Buxton at the moment 😀
@vickybatchelor6858 Hassop. It's been a few years since I rode one 😂
Headstone tunnel is indeed an absolute marvel, turning almost 90 degrees and descending toward Monsal Head. Remarkable. Having said that, Haddon tunnel was equally remarkable for its "cut and cover" construction. However, this came at a cost, payed for in human lives.
I find the safety cage looks like you’re about to walk into a Jurassic Park enclosure! I can see why it’s there though. The portal looks quite precarious in the 1953 picture!
Such a lovely tunnel. Love that it’s accessible for all to enjoy. It looks exactly like Pendinas Tunnel between Tregarth and Bethesda. That one’s an ex Bangor- Bethesda standard gauge line. Love a good tunnel! That one also opens up onto a bridge. Not quite the same as this viaduct but still pretty.
10:33 - a blot on the landscape?! Pah he knew nothing about railway architecture! However very poetic way to say he didn’t like it. As you say later in the video, the structure blends in well into the landscape unlike modern day roads. It’s a picture postcard situation. Beautiful, absolutely stunning.
Reopening the line with shared usage is a brilliant idea. Love all the old clips of trains crossing the viaduct. Gosh how I’d love to have been around during the golden age of steam.
great video
Thanks very much for watching
I don't think the bars under the arches are anything to do with tension - I believe they are to stop people from swinging under the arches on bungee lines. It is stunning engineering and a wonderful walk.
Correct
You missed the highlight! The view of the viaduct in it's wider setting from the Monsal Head Hotel above! Always climb up there to pause for a pint and take in the beauty. Perhaps my favourite view in the UK! A
Beautiful video. I love the way you use the grand music for grand constructions. I'm not sure having a train and a path crossing the viaduct is such a good idea though. I think they would be a bit too close for comfort.
I think it would be pretty close too. I imagine the maximum speed would need to be rather low in such a scenario
I think the “tension rods” are not structural , I believe they are just to stop rope swings from the deck above , yes people are that daft …
Agreed, I think they've only appeared in the last decade or so.
Welcome back to my area Ant - @ 6:22 I have also ridden through the Tunnels at Night Time - I know what you mean - complete dark apart from the little green light on the Main Lights projecting a green light to the Track Bed!!! @ 9:33 Your standing next to the Steep path which goes up to the Monsal Head Hotel where I work!!! @ 10:30 I know it as the Monsal Viaduct!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂
Headstone hotel according to the old map overlay, so was the name change a tourist thing? Headstone does sound a bit ominous perhaps ?
@@leegreveson I'm not sure to be Honest - News to me - I've always Known it as the Monsal Head Hotel 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Ruskin was wrong🙄 What a glorious structure, complementing the countryside. Amazing to have built it straight out of the tunnel but to have a bend in it, well, that's just showing off😂😂😂 Superb episode Ant👍👍👍👍 (What have I told you before about standing too close to the edge??!!!)
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Thanks very much for watching Bob as always. I'm back doing the rest of it today
To think that blue Pullman was Thundering across with services between Manchester Central and St Pancras station as the next great step in fast modern travel…What went wrong?…Sad
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14:57 bit thin for tensioning rods? Maybe earth or lightning rods?
Excellent video what drone do you use?
Very kind thank you. It's a Mavic Air 2 on this occasion but most of the time it's the Mini 4
How about getting a Group together to Promote a light railway/tram route, to attract tourist(with an aging population I for one would be tempted, if not expected to walk far)
As 12 year old school boys we abseiled off the viaduct for our introduction to abseiling 1982. I wonder if they would let kids do it nowadays
7:55/6 Trig Points(Trigonometry the stuff most people hated at school)that without which Maps wouldn't exist, Ordinance Survey check out it's History, It's how us old gits did it b4 Google, and it's why you see white squares painted on roadways, around the UK,
There sighting towers. Look at old maps. They are there for the construction of the Rivelin tunnel
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Thanks for showing such a beautiful masterpiece.
Those cyclists should really be going slower when they are sharing the same pathway as pedestrians though.
This goes both ways, as many walking groups tend to block the way and then become belligerent when asked politely to move over. And then you get the dog owners with their 20ft leashes.
When seeing this viaduct I am always reminded of the film Blue Max when two WW1 German pilots challenge each other to fly through the arches on a viaduct, the larges first then smaller until one fails. The problem here though is the valley turning 90 deg left hander after the bridge up the valley. Also the stream after a tailings pond failed near Peak Forest some years ago, the water was green as the nasty harmful waste flowed down stream.
Can you make your content inclusive by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning please? it is extremely hard to watch it relying only on the auto captioning sadly (I'm Profoundly Deaf)
If got down to the river and walked just round the bend there is a Lovely waterfall hidden gem