Hol -ing in Earl Sterndale and cycled Parsley Hay to Brassington and back 30 or so years ago when the line had not had its sleeper ups and downs levelled out and it was murderous! That said it was a wonderful, traffic free, lovely country cycle ride. Good old Derbyshire (biased - born in Derby!) Well recommended cos it's looks really good now.
Looked exhausting guys !! Love watching all your video's, a fascinating insight as to where all these disused stations & tunnels are, lots of research into it too ! Keep up the great work :)
Fantastic video Paul and Rebecca, You can see so much more on the bikes covering so much more distance, Look forward to seeing more keep up the good work guys👍
Just found this video as you referred to it in your Cromford canal one . I thought you were being optimistic when you announced your route plan. I’m a cyclist , a bit older than you , and I rode from Tideswell via Dowlow to Crich where my daughter lives and that was ample for a leisure ride ! The hill down to Cromford is fun. Love the stuff you do , keep up the good work cheers me up in these grim times .
That cycle hire man sounds like a character from the fast show ! I would have hired a leccy bike myself ! another great video guys ! got to say love the music !
@@pwhitewick Don't miss the old (closed) station at Whatstandwell (named I believe after a local called Walter Stonewell) situated on the still open Matlock branch. Also the old triangular station at Ambergate....
My part of the country. Done this a few times but the path used to stop north of Parsley Hay, just past Hurdlow as it was still in daily use. The line back down to Ashbourne is more picturesque with a nice tunnel at the end. The Engine Shed on your left at 00:19 was close to the original NSR Ashbourne Station which was the terminus. The ‘new’ Ashbourne Station was built when the tunnel opened and the line extended north. Great vid!
The wife and `I walked the whole length to Whaley Bridge over two days in 1992 although north of Buxton the route was past the Cat and Fiddle and up the Goyt Valley. The trackbed today looks rather better kept east of Parsley Hay than I remember. However the whole railway is fabulous and of course plan A was to build a canal. John Rennie surveyed the route in 1810 and the canal cost was so excessive that the obvious solution was a railway and in 1824 Josias Jessop surveyed the route and produced a plan and costs. the rest is history. The Hopton Incline, which caused you two such grief, was in its day the steepest piece of standard gauge adhesion railway in the UK, so no disgrace in struggling up it. I look forward to seeing you reach Whaley Bridge and the famous transhipment sheds. There is a great book by John Marshall if people want to know more. More power to your elbow.
@@pwhitewick please visit Whaley bridge I've been trying to get martin zero to do something .we have a dodgy dam the Cromford high peak railway which came to life in 1825 , the peak forest canal and transhipment warehouse were canal met rail lots of history we had a mill , coal mines and more .i am sure funessvale history society would help out there on facebook . near by the mid 1700s tram way to the quarry's lime kilns of dove holes and canal basin in Boxworth or bugsworth as it was known with multi loading docs to visit . canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit/bugsworth-basin . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaley_Bridge#:~:text=It%20was%20fully%20opened%20for,town%20of%20Whaley%20Bridge%20itself.
You had some great weather and the views are splendid. I've been to Matlock a few times and across to Dove Holes for the freight but never across the old lines. Well done for all the cycling, its nice there is such a decent path. Like the synchro bed flop!
Such lovely scenery but then I am slightly biased being from Derbyshire lol.Daughter and I cycled on tandem from Middleton Top to Parsley Hay and back.And daughter and her friend did sponsored walk from Friden to Belper and they did walk down Sheep Pasture incline but it wasn't a full moon😁.You had some lovely weather by the looks of things.Thoroughly enjoyed watching the video.
Great stuff, you had a very busy day !! trying to record two videos and covering the milage. What you achieved was a credit to you, keep up the good work.
Some great countryside in this latest video guys but I couldn't help thinking it must have been pretty bleak & wind-swept in winter. Hope your legs have recovered by now !! 😎
Cheers Stephen, we were itching to get the drone out all day but the wind prevented this (as you probably heard). Yep stunning countryside all round and probably windy all year round!!
Very well done and on a push iron too! I would only have attempted that on my motorcycle and probably end up being arrested for causing an affray................well you know what bikers are like. As I say though very well done and very interesting too.
Nice one again looking forward to part 2 there is one in gateshead that comes from the hills in the west crosses the team valley floor then climbs up to spingwell then on the staithes on the Tyne, one of he winding engines are still extant ,the only coal staithes surviving in the UK are at dunston they are awaiting some repairs to this listed structure after some person(s) set it on fire
@@pwhitewick it took coals from th collierys in the west of gateshead to hebburn/jarrow, it was part loco hauled and a winding engine for the springwell to team valley,the section from springwell to before the coke works used a wire rope not sure whether that was gravity full down emptys up, west of the team valley may have been the same never saw that work.the east side had the winding engine to pull the loaded wagons up the steep hill from the valley floor
Great video. Nice to see you somewhere I actually know as I take my scout group walking around there. Infact tomorrow we are walking the trail past cromford and on Sunday will be on the high peak trail past middleton top.
Thought you were being a touch optimistic in one day 😂 Have cycled some parts of this over the years, but you've given me incentive to do the complete route over a weekend sometime soon!
Nicely done 🙂 and welcome to the ‘neighbourhood’ lol. I look forward to the next instalment. Ps any extra ‘off camera’ time you may get...... it’s well worth a trudge a mile or so south of High Peak junction on the Cromford Canal. A few goodies & a nice Canal over bridge which crosses the Derby to Matlock line at the mouth of a tunnel. And if your very lucky you’ll get to score a 156?? 😀😂
Cheers Lee. We had completely planned to do that and for reasons unknown assumed we would get the entire line done including the wharf section at Cromford. Best laid plans.
Well done you two. I find it's not so much my legs that get sore, it's my backside! My motorcycle seats are comfy, My bicycle seat is anything but! Well, no pain, no gain! Maybe you aren't fit, but you will be a bit fitter now.
At 5.43 you mentioned a fishplate. I hate to be pedantic, but it is actually a fishbelly rail which was used to lay the original line. The rail was supported on stone blocks rather than the normal sleeper. Sorry to correct. But another excellent film from you two. I look forward to the rest of the High Peak footage. Also try going from Parsley Hay to Ashbourne.
Bit of a challenge in a day. Especially how beautiful the peak district is. like castleton myself speed well cavern blue John and the devils arse. But enjoyed the video as well thanks guys
You "only" visited four stations? I got exhausted just watching this video! I haven't ridden a bicycle in over 55 years, I always rode the motorized versions when I was younger. This line has great scenic possibilities, too bad it's now only for bicycles, it would have made a great tourist line.
@@pwhitewick The Monsal trail? That was the Manchester to London line with the double viaduct leading to it's station? I remember reading about this many years ago, a fantastic (and very expensive) method for avoiding grades!
Here, has someone put the clocks forward??!! Those bikes are quicker than you think, got yer vid in a day early, so we'll be getting Pt 2 tomorrow then??!!🤔 Hope your little legs get you to the other end, looking forward to it, looks like a fantastic ride🚴♂️🚴♀️
Very interesting, thoroughly enjoyed it, one of the first books I bought was on the C&HPR. What the guy said about the full moon IS true people do act differently, hence the term "lunatic". I worked for 20 years taking police 999 calls, I knew when the moon was full as the calls increased. I dreaded a Saturday night shift over a full moon.
@@pwhitewick Yes it really is a thing, I'm not winding you up. A friend of mine worked for the council in a local office and she also said people acted differently around a full moon. If ever you get to chat with a copper or ambulance paramedic ask them about full moons.
Once i try ride on my bicycle up from High Peak Junction... Extreme experience ;) Steep hill, gravel and lot of "logs" across the patch to protect from water damage. Not nice at all. Downhill because of this is terrible as well with overheating brakes to maintain low speed.
Another quality video, but so many missed opportunities... A tandem to allow for so many quality shots, or even a "Goodies" trandem so that last weeks assistant could have tagged along too... Missing shots of cute posteriors, well one in particular, take away from the experience of cycling on old rail beds. But all in all, not too bad. PS it is good to see that your enthusiasm has not been dented in any way by your experiences to date, viz the plan to do 60 miles in one day when admitting to not being fit! The world really is your lobster!
The guides are right to advise you not to cycle down the incline. The mother of a girl I worked with died doing just that she started riding down lost control hit one of the bridges over the road, and went over the handle bars, over the side of the bridge and fell to her death on the road below. The warning is more than justified!
Pronounced FrYden. My part of the world. The section from Buxton to Whaley Bridge closed in 1892 and apart from some at Ladmanlow and Whaley there's not a terrible lot left.
Let no one say that you lack ambition! However, for two people who are not in bad shape, but not tip-top form, 60 miles in a day is pretty intense, and that's without the filming and side stories! One thing about disused stations, they're not going to run away from you...I liked Rebecca's sweat shirt, with the "Every Disused Station" design on it- can it be gotten, somewhere?
Love the channel. Got introduced through Martin's channel. I'm from the states so just wanted to let you know you have some fans over here. Was curious how come you use miles whilst describing distance vs km?
Cheers Paul, love to know where are viewers are from especially if its far afield. Oddly, we use a random mix of metric and imperial to describe countless different things. Miles for cycling, km for running, Stone for weight of a person and ounces for weight of foods, pints for milk and litres for water... no logic whatsoever!,
@@pwhitewick that's cool. I'm from Florence Alabama. On the Tennessee river. We have a railroad bridge that's over the river that dates back to the late 1830s.
Noooooo! Don't take the moon lit cruise to Graves End! 😆 Are you sure the person who told you about full moons and inclines wasn't a big fan of the two Phil's CBW pod cast?🤔🤭 Great pod cast by the way!😚👌 You two did a decent day of cycling. You're not ready for the tour de France, but couch potatos? Certainly not my friends.
Definitely, almost undescribably so. That was such a horrendous accident. Yet they point out the oddest junctures, that you can't help but be amused, and feel bad about it. I was wondering about the rivers and canals while watching Martin's show. The banks are over flowing with life and greenery today, but the old Victorian photos show nothing but bare shores and walls. I guess that explains it for me. I hate to go on and on about it, and didn't want to jab at Martin's love for history. So I didn't ask.
I've run the White Peak Marathon twice that starts just outside Ashbourne on the Tissington Trail, goes UP and I mean UP the trail as its uphill for the first 10 miles to Parsley Hay station and past for about a mile where you run around a guy on a chair and back past Parsley Hay and then along the High Peak trail to Cromford Canal going down that incline you mentioned where you run along the canal towpath for about half a mile and finish in a field. Bet you didn't cycle up the incline, it was bad enough running down it having already run about 25 miles and the legs feeling it then you have to stop yourself going too fast down a really steep area. We passed the steam engine at the top that was used to raise and lower the train wagons full of stone down to the canal using a steel rope to stop them going hurtling down and to pull them back up. Thought you was being a bit ambitious when you said at the start what you were doing over a single day even on a bike, I've also cycled alot of it on my Mountain bike and have a cycle route here www.plotaroute.com/route/720127 which takes in Carsington Water as well it starts and ends at the Tissington Trail car park and is a circular route.
the railway was built simliar to a canal from middleton top to parsley hay following the contour;s ,i have cycled from middleton top to parsley hay .it's a long way there and back ,set out in sunny but cloudy weaather and on thee way back the mist or cloud's what ever came down could not see visabilaty down to 5 yrd's rain god it was a long way back frightning experiance ,totally soaked and freezing cold you have to be carefull because your so high up
Whitewick's Abandoned Railways You never asked! 😂😂. There’s a book about the Cromford and High Peak Railway, conveniently called The Cromford and High Peak Railway 😉, and there are some photographs of the old crash pits (on Cromford Incline) in the book as far as I remember.
Those are the Cornish boilers which provided steam to the rotative beam engines. The engines worked an endless cable ( originally a chain ) to haul trucks up and lower them down the incline. Water for the lines engines was conveyed up and down in redundant tenders from railway locomotives. The beam engines are the oldest such engines in the world, still in their original place of work.This line was one of the greatest losses to the railway preservation world.
Not in shape? You could have fooled me. Surely all that walking has done you a world of good. By the by, was it Freya's turn to end up locked up in the toilet?
I hope you won't be cross at me but my comment is merely my opinion and not a criticism of your wonderful work in any way. I loved the video, as always, and I appreciate your tight timetable but I felt somewhat deprived by you completely omitting the tunnels from it. Even if you'd just filmed yourself riding through them (and saved the descriptive work that you did for another video as you said) it wouldn't have felt like somebody had edited the middle out of your film. You clearly achieved your usual high standards otherwise. Keep up the good work, it appears to be doing your health a power of good too.
No worries at all. Yes on this trip there were two tunnels (part two contains another two tunnels). All four tunnels will feature in a separate descriptive film. Point taken though, we have done this before with a few shots up to the tunnel.
My neck of the woods the High Peak District, although i now live in North Wales, if your ever thinking of doing from New Mills to Hayfield disused railway. give me a shout, i could help you out on that one, nice b&bs in that area to. you can contact me through my youtube channel links to my website on there where you can contact me via email
I would respectfully disagree. In the main, we make these videos for us. Naturally we enjoy the feedback and very much like it when others enjoy the videos too, but this is our diary. For that reason there is absolutely a need for the music.
At least they didn't do shameless product placement shots of cups from coffee outlets or bags from fast food shops like they've done in other videos. And that Geoff Marshall bloke is just as bad.
Credit to Wikipedia. The most serious accident befalling the CHPR was in 1937 when a train of wagons rolled over on the curve approaching the foot of Hopton Incline killing its driver.
QUESTION TIME: So we are planning loads of trips next year (plus a handful more this year). Where should we go next!?!?
Settle & Carlisle, Scotland ? Both very scenic - but maybe not bikes !!
@@andywillis2650 like it... But.... It's no longer abandoned... I think?
@@pwhitewick very true Paul - not thinking there !!
@@andywillis2650 😉
The Woodhead Route in two stages.
Hol -ing in Earl Sterndale and cycled Parsley Hay to Brassington and back 30 or so years ago when the line had not had its sleeper ups and downs levelled out and it was murderous! That said it was a wonderful, traffic free, lovely country cycle ride. Good old Derbyshire (biased - born in Derby!) Well recommended cos it's looks really good now.
Love the way you edit your vlogs. Compelling watching. Well done 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Malcolm. Very kind.b
Watched the two videos back to front! Enjoyed this one immensley. Wonderful scenery, fascinating historical facts and infrastructure. Well done guys.
A lovely historic trail guys. Also a real challenge you have set yourselves. Good on you. Thanks for sharing.🚴♀️🚴♂️🦅🍷🍺Cheers.
Cheers David. More to follow from here!!
Spookily the video paused itself when you stopped at those red lights, and it's not even a full moon! Great work as always guys.
Cheers Hans. 👍👍
Great video Paul and Rebecca,hope you weren't too saddle sore, beautiful ride👌😃
Cheers Shaun. Very very saddle sore!!
Looked exhausting guys !! Love watching all your video's, a fascinating insight as to where all these disused stations & tunnels are, lots of research into it too ! Keep up the great work :)
Thanks Andy. Yup we love the research part almost as much as the actual adventure.
Great video and words to live by, “Don’t go down the incline, it’s a full moon”
Forever etched in our memories.
10:58, great view of the canal there. Stunning video, the scenery is amazing.
Absolutely. Just wait until the next video too!
@@pwhitewick Looking forward to it.
Fantastic video Paul and Rebecca, You can see so much more on the bikes covering so much more distance, Look forward to seeing more keep up the good work guys👍
Cheers Grant. It was tiring with all the gear but agreed, would wouldn't have seen half this without bikes!
I do love the old railway lines of Derbyshire. Such amazing landscapes that they pass through!
This is probably our third trip here and we couldnt agree more!
Just found this video as you referred to it in your Cromford canal one . I thought you were being optimistic when you announced your route plan. I’m a cyclist , a bit older than you , and I rode from Tideswell via Dowlow to Crich where my daughter lives and that was ample for a leisure ride ! The hill down to Cromford is fun. Love the stuff you do , keep up the good work cheers me up in these grim times .
That cycle hire man sounds like a character from the fast show ! I would have hired a leccy bike myself ! another great video guys ! got to say love the music !
Cheers Merv, yup he was a character and a half!
Lovely video and what lovely countryside. Keep up good work.
Thanks Phil. Yup stunning countryside.
As usual fantastic. I feel fitter watching you cycle, lol. Thank you
Lol. Next week is the walking part, hopefully we can have the same effect.
Lovely scenery for a rail-to-trail path.
Thanks Spotty. Yup, a beautiful area.
Fabulous part of the railway world, and plenty of history to explore in this region.
Most definitely. In fact the next couple of videos will be from this area too.
@@pwhitewick Don't miss the old (closed) station at Whatstandwell (named I believe after a local called Walter Stonewell) situated on the still open Matlock branch. Also the old triangular station at Ambergate....
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne check out one of our first videos we made "Peak Line - Comic Disused". I think you'll like it.
Great video and many thanks for sharing 🙂🍻🥂👍
My part of the country. Done this a few times but the path used to stop north of Parsley Hay, just past Hurdlow as it was still in daily use. The line back down to Ashbourne is more picturesque with a nice tunnel at the end. The Engine Shed on your left at 00:19 was close to the original NSR Ashbourne Station which was the terminus. The ‘new’ Ashbourne Station was built when the tunnel opened and the line extended north. Great vid!
Thanks Steve, watch out for the next two videos (spoilers).
The wife and `I walked the whole length to Whaley Bridge over two days in 1992 although north of Buxton the route was past the Cat and Fiddle and up the Goyt Valley. The trackbed today looks rather better kept east of Parsley Hay than I remember. However the whole railway is fabulous and of course plan A was to build a canal. John Rennie surveyed the route in 1810 and the canal cost was so excessive that the obvious solution was a railway and in 1824 Josias Jessop surveyed the route and produced a plan and costs. the rest is history. The Hopton Incline, which caused you two such grief, was in its day the steepest piece of standard gauge adhesion railway in the UK, so no disgrace in struggling up it. I look forward to seeing you reach Whaley Bridge and the famous transhipment sheds. There is a great book by John Marshall if people want to know more.
More power to your elbow.
Thanks Owen, really useful and appreciated
@@pwhitewick please visit Whaley bridge I've been trying to get martin zero to do something .we have a dodgy dam the Cromford high peak railway which came to life in 1825 , the peak forest canal and transhipment warehouse were canal met rail lots of history we had a mill , coal mines and more .i am sure funessvale history society would help out there on facebook . near by the mid 1700s tram way to the quarry's lime kilns of dove holes and canal basin in Boxworth or bugsworth as it was known with multi loading docs to visit .
canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit/bugsworth-basin .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaley_Bridge#:~:text=It%20was%20fully%20opened%20for,town%20of%20Whaley%20Bridge%20itself.
Watched it! Luv your vids. Happy Life to You!
Thank you Teri. 👍👍
You had some great weather and the views are splendid. I've been to Matlock a few times and across to Dove Holes for the freight but never across the old lines. Well done for all the cycling, its nice there is such a decent path. Like the synchro bed flop!
We do a cracking bed flop sync right!
Watching from La Paz Bolivia Really enjoy your work...good idea with the bikes...loverly countryside...and great fun too.
Cheers Robin, glad we are attracting views from all over the world!
Great idea having cycle hire at one end. Just need to convince the wife ,scenery looks amazing.
absolutely stunning scenery. Also a cycle hire place at Parsley Hay too!
great video look forward to the next part👍
Cheers Barry
It's nice to see you left a camera running for when you got back in the hotel. Looks a lovely place.
We had 248 cameras on that trip, some are still running now.
Another great video! I must try and do some of the Cromford & High Peak in 2020¬!
Well worth the trip Henry
Yes, I think original plan was a bit extreme, but that section was lots of fun to watch
Much more to follow! Cheers Stevie
Great vid. Scenic AND informative. Loved the music. We'll see if day 2 happened or if you both stiffened up overnight
Oh it happened..... 🛤️🛤️🚂🚂
Such lovely scenery but then I am slightly biased being from Derbyshire lol.Daughter and I cycled on tandem from Middleton Top to Parsley Hay and back.And daughter and her friend did sponsored walk from Friden to Belper and they did walk down Sheep Pasture incline but it wasn't a full moon😁.You had some lovely weather by the looks of things.Thoroughly enjoyed watching the video.
Thanks Ian, we did consider a Tandem but owing to the need to film we opted for two separate bikes. Love this area, more next week
@@pwhitewick Look forward to it 👍
I so enjoy your videos and the humour keep up the good work from NZ
Cheers Terrry, glad you are enjoying it!
Great stuff, you had a very busy day !! trying to record two videos and covering the milage. What you achieved was a credit to you, keep up the good work.
Thank you Niall, very much appreciated.
Some great countryside in this latest video guys but I couldn't help thinking it must have been pretty bleak & wind-swept in winter. Hope your legs have recovered by now !! 😎
Cheers Stephen, we were itching to get the drone out all day but the wind prevented this (as you probably heard). Yep stunning countryside all round and probably windy all year round!!
Great video guys, thanks!
Cheers Ashley. 👍👍
Very well done and on a push iron too! I would only have attempted that on my motorcycle and probably end up being arrested for causing an affray................well you know what bikers are like. As I say though very well done and very interesting too.
Cheers Duncan. We slightly underestimated how difficult it would be plus all the filming etc!
Nice one again looking forward to part 2 there is one in gateshead that comes from the hills in the west crosses the team valley floor then climbs up to spingwell then on the staithes on the Tyne, one of he winding engines are still extant ,the only coal staithes surviving in the UK are at dunston they are awaiting some repairs to this listed structure after some person(s) set it on fire
Cheers Michael, a treat to see the winding house at Middleton. Was that an old Tramway? (The Gateshead one you mention?)
@@pwhitewick it took coals from th collierys in the west of gateshead to hebburn/jarrow, it was part loco hauled and a winding engine for the springwell to team valley,the section from springwell to before the coke works used a wire rope not sure whether that was gravity full down emptys up, west of the team valley may have been the same never saw that work.the east side had the winding engine to pull the loaded wagons up the steep hill from the valley floor
@@michaeljohnson4636 sounds like a decent explore.
Done that many times even fell of down the incline to high peak junction many years ago so no the dangers look forward to the next instalment
We went down the Hopton and I felt like a kid again.... The reality hit and my head said... "What if I catch a big stone!?". *Brakes on!
Great video. Nice to see you somewhere I actually know as I take my scout group walking around there. Infact tomorrow we are walking the trail past cromford and on Sunday will be on the high peak trail past middleton top.
Great stuff Ian. You'll hopefully like next week's too in that case.
Thought you were being a touch optimistic in one day 😂 Have cycled some parts of this over the years, but you've given me incentive to do the complete route over a weekend sometime soon!
Yeah, I was in deep envy of the views and terrain, let alone the history.
Definitely do it Lee.
You could visit the Disused Killers dale halt which is part of the Steeple Grange Light Railway (near black rocks)
Thanks for the tip Edward.
You are both fit cycling
Nicely done 🙂 and welcome to the ‘neighbourhood’ lol. I look forward to the next instalment. Ps any extra ‘off camera’ time you may get...... it’s well worth a trudge a mile or so south of High Peak junction on the Cromford Canal. A few goodies & a nice Canal over bridge which crosses the Derby to Matlock line at the mouth of a tunnel. And if your very lucky you’ll get to score a 156?? 😀😂
Cheers Lee. We had completely planned to do that and for reasons unknown assumed we would get the entire line done including the wharf section at Cromford. Best laid plans.
BR, tested the blue pullman on this line in 65...great video and great music too...
Wow... really? Which section!?
@@pwhitewick Yes was the Midland Pullman service in 1960, blue pullman.jpg, climbing the Peak forest at Dove Hole Tunnel....
My friend used to holiday at Monsal Dale, there was a large quarry there and the railway is still used for stone hauling, using class 37s and 66s
Sorry was as early as 1960..wow,.!!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing
Thanks again for another fine video. Just one bit of advice, Paul... don't take both your hands off the steering wheel when driving!
Wise words Paul!
Well done you two. I find it's not so much my legs that get sore, it's my backside!
My motorcycle seats are comfy, My bicycle seat is anything but! Well, no pain, no gain!
Maybe you aren't fit, but you will be a bit fitter now.
Cheers Alistair. Yup couldn't agree more. Sore rears for a day or so!
Good video as always
Thank you Thomas.
@@pwhitewick your welcome
At 5.43 you mentioned a fishplate. I hate to be pedantic, but it is actually a fishbelly rail which was used to lay the original line. The rail was supported on stone blocks rather than the normal sleeper. Sorry to correct. But another excellent film from you two. I look forward to the rest of the High Peak footage. Also try going from Parsley Hay to Ashbourne.
Yup absolutely. I even made a note to correct myself whilst editing but completely forgot!
Nice video
Bit of a challenge in a day. Especially how beautiful the peak district is. like castleton myself speed well cavern blue John and the devils arse. But enjoyed the video as well thanks guys
Cheers Roberto, we did indeed bite off more than we could chew. I've no idea what I was thinking when I planned the day.
You "only" visited four stations? I got exhausted just watching this video! I haven't ridden a bicycle in over 55 years, I always rode the motorized versions when I was younger. This line has great scenic possibilities, too bad it's now only for bicycles, it would have made a great tourist line.
Yup, this and the Monsal trail. Can't think of two better routes so close together.
@@pwhitewick The Monsal trail? That was the Manchester to London line with the double viaduct leading to it's station? I remember reading about this many years ago, a fantastic (and very expensive) method for avoiding grades!
Wow I was gonna say 30+ miles each way in a day is some serious miles 😂🚴♂️Another great vid guys
Cheers Dale, we bit off more than we could chew for sure!
Not to mention holding a camera in one hand. 60 miles is the stuff of road bikes on the flat unless you're an Olympiad.
@@stephensaines7100 that's a good point. We had also not considered how much of a toll that would be too!
hi paul and rebecca , great video and funny start again , so glad you didnt moon lmao , thats a real nice part of the country :)
Cheers Davie. Tempting!!
@@pwhitewick lmao :)
Great vid.....excellent, when you coming to Cornwall.
Good question. I've a lot of info on a particular line we aim to do soon. A guide in place for it too. Likely Spring next year we think.
A very different but great video, very different doing it on bikes and guess that this challenge did a Rebecca!
Cheers Simon, I'm not sure what doing a Rebecca is though lol.
@@pwhitewick from the last video when Rebecca went to the toilet and got locked in, your plan went to the toilet :(
@@Sim0nTrains 😂..... No I'm with you!
You have some great scenery in UK. Hopefully I'll get there. Just got to win the lottery.
...and vice versa with Aus!
Here, has someone put the clocks forward??!! Those bikes are quicker than you think, got yer vid in a day early, so we'll be getting Pt 2 tomorrow then??!!🤔 Hope your little legs get you to the other end, looking forward to it, looks like a fantastic ride🚴♂️🚴♀️
Cheers Bob, sorry to mess with the whole clock situation, you are going to love the next video...... but I can't guarantee it will be tomorrow. lol
great video guys, check if there was a railways called the knutsford line near lymm
Will do.
Very interesting, thoroughly enjoyed it, one of the first books I bought was on the C&HPR. What the guy said about the full moon IS true people do act differently, hence the term "lunatic". I worked for 20 years taking police 999 calls, I knew when the moon was full as the calls increased. I dreaded a Saturday night shift over a full moon.
Thanks Jules a fascinating line indeed. We were caught a little off guard by the full moon thing... It's really a thing??
@@pwhitewick Yes it really is a thing, I'm not winding you up. A friend of mine worked for the council in a local office and she also said people acted differently around a full moon. If ever you get to chat with a copper or ambulance paramedic ask them about full moons.
@@juleshathaway3894 I will do!.... He mentioned motorcycle crashes too on the A6
@@pwhitewick and as an ex teacher..full moons and windy days agh...
@@bianchikat my guess is, it's always windy up there!
make make make.... i'll..watch watch watch. done a lot of trackbed cycling and walkin in my youner days. Lov e it.. well don e
Cheers Keith. Not as easy as anticipated with all the gear, but more to follow.
Once i try ride on my bicycle up from High Peak Junction... Extreme experience ;) Steep hill, gravel and lot of "logs" across the patch to protect from water damage. Not nice at all.
Downhill because of this is terrible as well with overheating brakes to maintain low speed.
I can imagine. Just coming down the Hopton Incline was tough on the breaks.
Another quality video, but so many missed opportunities...
A tandem to allow for so many quality shots, or even a "Goodies" trandem so that last weeks assistant could have tagged along too...
Missing shots of cute posteriors, well one in particular, take away from the experience of cycling on old rail beds.
But all in all, not too bad.
PS it is good to see that your enthusiasm has not been dented in any way by your experiences to date, viz the plan to do 60 miles in one day when admitting to not being fit! The world really is your lobster!
😂😂..... Rebecca wanted a Tandem bit I put my foot down because.... Well I'd be putting my foot down all day.
@@pwhitewick I have one word for you. Killjoy! But as a bloke I understand exactly where you are coming from.
I cycled 11 miles on the Camel Trail a few years ago. Then 11 miles back!! Ouch. I ached for days!!
We need to do that one soon.
Walked from High Peak Junction to Friden and back. You can cycle down to Cromford Canal from Middleton Top with good brakes and competence!
That's one heck of a walk!!!
i thought it was to ambitious for you guys but all the same great vid thanks
Cheers Robert.
Bugger thought it was Friday, still have to go to the coal face tomorrow.
😂😂😂.... Yeah sorry about that.
Ok we have Wi-Fi ! Now to have a look!
Well you got farther than I would have!
Haha.... But not that far. More to come, thanks for watching.
@@pwhitewick the electric bikes sound like a great labour saving device...
@@mrbillmacneill Yup and we should have gone for them!
The guides are right to advise you not to cycle down the incline. The mother of a girl I worked with died doing just that she started riding down lost control hit one of the bridges over the road, and went over the handle bars, over the side of the bridge and fell to her death on the road below. The warning is more than justified!
Pronounced FrYden. My part of the world. The section from Buxton to Whaley Bridge closed in 1892 and apart from some at Ladmanlow and Whaley there's not a terrible lot left.
Yup this will be the next video (or at least the one after!). The walk both of the Burbage tunnel before the inclines was stunning. #droneage
Let no one say that you lack ambition! However, for two people who are not in bad shape, but not tip-top form, 60 miles in a day is pretty intense, and that's without the filming and side stories! One thing about disused stations, they're not going to run away from you...I liked Rebecca's sweat shirt, with the "Every Disused Station" design on it- can it be gotten, somewhere?
Cheers Mr LP. Yup all our Merch is here: stores.clothes2order.com/dztzstore/rail/every-disused-station/
Love the channel. Got introduced through Martin's channel. I'm from the states so just wanted to let you know you have some fans over here. Was curious how come you use miles whilst describing distance vs km?
Cheers Paul, love to know where are viewers are from especially if its far afield. Oddly, we use a random mix of metric and imperial to describe countless different things. Miles for cycling, km for running, Stone for weight of a person and ounces for weight of foods, pints for milk and litres for water... no logic whatsoever!,
@@pwhitewick that's cool. I'm from Florence Alabama. On the Tennessee river. We have a railroad bridge that's over the river that dates back to the late 1830s.
@@pedwards10 that's a very old railroad! I know very little of American lines so forgive my naivity
great to see you guys back-(am I allowed to say that these days?)
Lol. We've only been gone 6 days. 😬
Noooooo! Don't take the moon lit cruise to Graves End! 😆
Are you sure the person who told you about full moons and inclines wasn't a big fan of the two Phil's CBW pod cast?🤔🤭
Great pod cast by the way!😚👌
You two did a decent day of cycling. You're not ready for the tour de France, but couch potatos? Certainly not my friends.
Haha,.... glad you are enjoying the podcast. Cracking stuff isn't it!
Definitely, almost undescribably so. That was such a horrendous accident. Yet they point out the oddest junctures, that you can't help but be amused, and feel bad about it.
I was wondering about the rivers and canals while watching Martin's show. The banks are over flowing with life and greenery today, but the old Victorian photos show nothing but bare shores and walls. I guess that explains it for me. I hate to go on and on about it, and didn't want to jab at Martin's love for history. So I didn't ask.
@@JDLeonard74 no worries. Not sure what you mean about Martin and the bare shores etc?
I've run the White Peak Marathon twice that starts just outside Ashbourne on the Tissington Trail, goes UP and I mean UP the trail as its uphill for the first 10 miles to Parsley Hay station and past for about a mile where you run around a guy on a chair and back past Parsley Hay and then along the High Peak trail to Cromford Canal going down that incline you mentioned where you run along the canal towpath for about half a mile and finish in a field. Bet you didn't cycle up the incline, it was bad enough running down it having already run about 25 miles and the legs feeling it then you have to stop yourself going too fast down a really steep area. We passed the steam engine at the top that was used to raise and lower the train wagons full of stone down to the canal using a steel rope to stop them going hurtling down and to pull them back up.
Thought you was being a bit ambitious when you said at the start what you were doing over a single day even on a bike, I've also cycled alot of it on my Mountain bike and have a cycle route here www.plotaroute.com/route/720127 which takes in Carsington Water as well it starts and ends at the Tissington Trail car park and is a circular route.
Wow. I couldn't imagine running much more than 5k. Very impressive feat!
Done that myself. That incline at Sheep Pasture is ridiculous 😟
Oooooooh yes. Hopton was a breeze in comparison.
I like the run-off tunnel on the slope to catch runaway trucks! Before that was added trucks raced to the bottom and launched over the canal!
PS: still quality even though its Thursday.
Another cracking video think you might have tried to much for one day just means we get another video.
Or two.... 🧐😉.... (Spoilers).
I think it's perfectly acceptable to fail. You tried, that was the main thing. And it would have taken a lot longer if you had walked. :)
👍👍..... As maybe seen in the next video from this little Peak series... 😬
the railway was built simliar to a canal from middleton top to parsley hay following the contour;s ,i have cycled from middleton top to parsley hay .it's a long way there and back ,set out in sunny but cloudy weaather and on thee way back the mist or cloud's what ever came down could not see visabilaty down to 5 yrd's rain god it was a long way back frightning experiance ,totally soaked and freezing cold you have to be carefull because your so high up
Cheers Peter, yes it was surprising to read how high up we were, Ladmanlow perhaps would have been one of the highest UK stations had it survived!
If you’re not cyclists then to me 12 miles each way in one day was a great achievement, well done.
Cheers Stew, I'll take that!
A crash closed the line? Makes sense because of those inclines. Now it’s a nice bike path
Didn't close the line for frieght, just passengers
They added crash pits into the inclines if the ropes broke. There were still some old crashed trucks there in the 80’s.
Wish we knew that when we were there! Great stuff.
Whitewick's Abandoned Railways You never asked! 😂😂. There’s a book about the Cromford and High Peak Railway, conveniently called The Cromford and High Peak Railway 😉, and there are some photographs of the old crash pits (on Cromford Incline) in the book as far as I remember.
@@SteveInskip 😂😂😂..... We shouldn't have to ask... You should just 'know'. Now... Tell me the name of that book again!?!?????
3:34 What are those creepy looking things? Kilns? Iron works?
They are part of the winding house and would have powered the static steam engine that pulled the goods up the hill. (I think).
Those are the Cornish boilers which provided steam to the rotative beam engines. The engines worked an endless cable ( originally a chain ) to haul trucks up and lower them down the incline. Water for the lines engines was conveyed up and down in redundant tenders from railway locomotives. The beam engines are the oldest such engines in the world, still in their original place of work.This line was one of the greatest losses to the railway preservation world.
As someone who stopped listening to music around 1973 what is the music at the start?
😂😂..... Never stop listening to music! Erm opening music was Hanging to Dry by Anthony Lazaro
@@pwhitewick I don't stop listening it's just I don't find very much I like!! Thanks for the response it's a terrific song
🚂🚂👍👍😂
Has Rebecca only got one pair of trousers?
Not in shape? You could have fooled me. Surely all that walking has done you a world of good. By the by, was it Freya's turn to end up locked up in the toilet?
Definitely not in shape. My legs still ache now.
You should borrow a bike carrier to save you the 12 miles
This is a potential consideration.
I hope you won't be cross at me but my comment is merely my opinion and not a criticism of your wonderful work in any way. I loved the video, as always, and I appreciate your tight timetable but I felt somewhat deprived by you completely omitting the tunnels from it. Even if you'd just filmed yourself riding through them (and saved the descriptive work that you did for another video as you said) it wouldn't have felt like somebody had edited the middle out of your film. You clearly achieved your usual high standards otherwise. Keep up the good work, it appears to be doing your health a power of good too.
No worries at all. Yes on this trip there were two tunnels (part two contains another two tunnels). All four tunnels will feature in a separate descriptive film. Point taken though, we have done this before with a few shots up to the tunnel.
average causal rider on those bikes 40miles a day max, less if you stopping for filming
I guess I still think I'm a kid that can hit 60-70 miles in a day without a blink! Clearly I'm not! 👍
My neck of the woods the High Peak District, although i now live in North Wales, if your ever thinking of doing from New Mills to Hayfield disused railway. give me a shout, i could help you out on that one, nice b&bs in that area to. you can contact me through my youtube channel links to my website on there where you can contact me via email
Cheers Andy, much appreciated.
maybe a pair of electric bike to cover the distances.
Yup, they even had those available in the cycle hire place!!
Great videos but cut the music no need for it.
I would respectfully disagree. In the main, we make these videos for us. Naturally we enjoy the feedback and very much like it when others enjoy the videos too, but this is our diary. For that reason there is absolutely a need for the music.
You guys being kinda unfit you should have hired electric bikes , cost more but what cost is aches and pain :-)
We did consider that but "full moon hire guy" said we would be fine lol
For the love of god why? surely you have better things to do? wre you bullied at school? or always been an anorak!
I was the bully!
Too many mug shots
I disagree. Not once did we have a coffee in this video!!
At least they didn't do shameless product placement shots of cups from coffee outlets or bags from fast food shops like they've done in other videos. And that Geoff Marshall bloke is just as bad.
Credit to Wikipedia. The most serious accident befalling the CHPR was in 1937 when a train of wagons rolled over on the curve approaching the foot of Hopton Incline killing its driver.
I read about that but nothing on the 1877 accident.