Absolutely beautiful and brilliant your work. Thank you for the very professional, articulate and interesting canal. Well done sir. My wife and I here in California, really appreciate the time and effort put in. Thank you!
Wonderful drone shots (as always.!) from this beautiful area Steve - that weir is a great piece of engineering. So brilliant for those of us not able to get to some of these places so readily... Always lots to take in from your videos each week. Thanks.! Oh, and just been reading - congrats on being awarded 'ambassador' status for Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Trust. Well deserved.! Your passion and commitment to highlighting (and sharing with us.!) canal restoration projects large and small across the country, has been fantastic.
Hello Sir , I walk from the basin to the falls last year and enjoyed very much . A step back in time I felt , I have visited the aqueduct many years ago now . Thanks you for your video .
@@JustinGeorge-x9q it’s a lovely walk isn’t it, we did it a couple of times with the kids when we were staying there, it’s lovely when the horse drawn barge goes past as well
Only by travelling along the canal and railway as you did does one get the full feeling of the scale of the engineering involved. That canal through the narrows has been called "The Hanging Gardens" as in spring and early summer the up-hill cutting wall is just a mass of wild flowers (plus a few cultivated garden escapees) - well worth a repeat visit just for that bit on its own
My dad used to take me as a kid, I had these images in my head of this place I used to go to, It was earlier in the year and I drove through and immediately booked a holiday. An absolutely incredible place to explore
A grand trip through a very scenic landscape! The poor sods having to continually salvage and restring the chain bridges after flood events reminds me of having to snig and replace bush girder bridge logs after local tropical cyclone flooding. 😱🙄
@@theoztreecrasher2647 you’ve got some interesting bridges over there, I remember going to gundagai where they have the old railway bridge and all the wooden raised sections, it’s really interesting
Not to forget the weirs to control the levels on Llyn Tegid and the lakes on Arenig Fawr and Arenig Fach. This was to ensure there was enough water in the Afon Dyfrdwy (River Dee) to supply the canal at Horseshoe. Even with the weir there wouldn't have been enough water in the Dee in summer lows.
@@CourtAboveTheCut You can easily find confirmation that Telford and Jessop built sluices at Bala. I cannot find a definite source to confirm their involvement with Llyn Arenig Fawr and Llyn Arenig Fawr. I will continue to research this.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe I’ll do some reading up in the next few days, Bala is beautiful, I was planning to do the railway there but we didn’t have time. It’s the same line as well isn’t
@@CourtAboveTheCut Yep same line. It split at Corwen with one branch going to the North Coast of Wales. it split again at Bala with the original line heading for the west coast at Barmouth. The old line alongside the Mawddach Estuary is an absolutely stunning walk and the rail bridge across the estuary is brilliant. From Bala a line went north to Blaenau Ffestiniog to tap into the slate trade. The planning permission has been granted to the Bala Lake Railway to take an extension back into the town (just been granted). It is a completely new section of line with the old line being covered by the industrial estate. PS good video on the canal. Thanks PPS this is my local patch. I live in Cynwyd a mile beyond Corwen. Telford is one of my hero's.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe yes I saw the planning had gone through, I follow heritage railway stuff a little bit I’m not massively knowledgable on it. I love exploring old lines we have an old Brunel built branch line running past our houses, it’s a lovely walk complete with one of the stations still largely intact. Telford was an absolute legend, he changed the industrial landscape with his innovative ideas
The water from the Dee and running down the canal feeder looks like cold tea... well I thought so! Edit: I used to love visiting Llangollen, with rail, canal, beautiful scenery and a quaint little town, what's not to like!?
@@TheAde71 I love wales, I’ll live there one day, Llangollen is one of those areas I remember as a kid I absolutely loved, there’s just something about the place
@@CourtAboveTheCut that was a regular destination when I was a kid ,the Min-y-don caravan park on beach road.i didn’t know about the artillery practice range on morfa harlech and also a P38 fighter which is still on the beach and reveals itself at very low tides.
Everything is on a spectacular scale - landscape and engineering to match! Wonderful aerial shots. Thank you!
@@malcolmrichardson3881 exactly that, nothing is done small, it’s all epic
Llangollen and berywin and the pontcisilt viaduct are absolute treasures . Thanks for that video!
@@michaelmiller641 Chirk tunnel, viaduct and aqueduct are amazing as well
A delightful postcard….thank you!
@@johncamp2567 no problem, thanks for watching
Absolutely beautiful and brilliant your work. Thank you for the very professional, articulate and interesting canal. Well done sir. My wife and I here in California, really appreciate the time and effort put in. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and your lovely comment
Thank you for a very informative & educational video. It was great listening to you described the canal & the rails road.
@@earllutz2663 thank you, thanks for watching :)
Wonderful drone shots (as always.!) from this beautiful area Steve - that weir is a great piece of engineering. So brilliant for those of us not able to get to some of these places so readily... Always lots to take in from your videos each week. Thanks.!
Oh, and just been reading - congrats on being awarded 'ambassador' status for Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Trust. Well deserved.! Your passion and commitment to highlighting (and sharing with us.!) canal restoration projects large and small across the country, has been fantastic.
@@25mileswest86 thank you :) it’s probably obvious how much I love the work they are doing, it’s an honour to be associated with them
Hello Sir , I walk from the basin to the falls last year and enjoyed very much . A step back in time I felt , I have visited the aqueduct many years ago now . Thanks you for your video .
@@JustinGeorge-x9q it’s a lovely walk isn’t it, we did it a couple of times with the kids when we were staying there, it’s lovely when the horse drawn barge goes past as well
Only by travelling along the canal and railway as you did does one get the full feeling of the scale of the engineering involved. That canal through the narrows has been called "The Hanging Gardens" as in spring and early summer the up-hill cutting wall is just a mass of wild flowers (plus a few cultivated garden escapees) - well worth a repeat visit just for that bit on its own
@@18robsmith it’s beautiful isn’t it, the whole ride you really feel like you are in the 1950s
Thank you for a very informative &
@@earllutz2663 thanks
Looks like you had a good holiday in my home area, so nice to see😀
My dad used to take me as a kid, I had these images in my head of this place I used to go to, It was earlier in the year and I drove through and immediately booked a holiday. An absolutely incredible place to explore
Thank you. Very informative and interesting.about somewhere I'm ever unlikely these days to visit. Looks like a beautiful place or places.
The whole area is stunning, just down the road is horseshoe pass which is incredible
A grand trip through a very scenic landscape! The poor sods having to continually salvage and restring the chain bridges after flood events reminds me of having to snig and replace bush girder bridge logs after local tropical cyclone flooding. 😱🙄
@@theoztreecrasher2647 you’ve got some interesting bridges over there, I remember going to gundagai where they have the old railway bridge and all the wooden raised sections, it’s really interesting
Not to forget the weirs to control the levels on Llyn Tegid and the lakes on Arenig Fawr and Arenig Fach. This was to ensure there was enough water in the Afon Dyfrdwy (River Dee) to supply the canal at Horseshoe. Even with the weir there wouldn't have been enough water in the Dee in summer lows.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe very interesting, I didn’t know that
@@CourtAboveTheCut You can easily find confirmation that Telford and Jessop built sluices at Bala. I cannot find a definite source to confirm their involvement with Llyn Arenig Fawr and Llyn Arenig Fawr. I will continue to research this.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe I’ll do some reading up in the next few days, Bala is beautiful, I was planning to do the railway there but we didn’t have time. It’s the same line as well isn’t
@@CourtAboveTheCut Yep same line. It split at Corwen with one branch going to the North Coast of Wales. it split again at Bala with the original line heading for the west coast at Barmouth. The old line alongside the Mawddach Estuary is an absolutely stunning walk and the rail bridge across the estuary is brilliant. From Bala a line went north to Blaenau Ffestiniog to tap into the slate trade. The planning permission has been granted to the Bala Lake Railway to take an extension back into the town (just been granted). It is a completely new section of line with the old line being covered by the industrial estate. PS good video on the canal. Thanks PPS this is my local patch. I live in Cynwyd a mile beyond Corwen. Telford is one of my hero's.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe yes I saw the planning had gone through, I follow heritage railway stuff a little bit I’m not massively knowledgable on it. I love exploring old lines we have an old Brunel built branch line running past our houses, it’s a lovely walk complete with one of the stations still largely intact.
Telford was an absolute legend, he changed the industrial landscape with his innovative ideas
The water from the Dee and running down the canal feeder looks like cold tea... well I thought so!
Edit: I used to love visiting Llangollen, with rail, canal, beautiful scenery and a quaint little town, what's not to like!?
@@Sarge084 yes I thought the same, I drink black tea when I’m being healthy but didn’t fancy any of that 😂
One of many Welsh treasures is Llangollen
@@TheAde71 I love wales, I’ll live there one day, Llangollen is one of those areas I remember as a kid I absolutely loved, there’s just something about the place
@@CourtAboveTheCut agreed.im particularly amoured to Llandudno.
@@TheAde71 another stunning spot. We used to holiday in Harlech as kids, I always go back to that huge beach
@@CourtAboveTheCut that was a regular destination when I was a kid ,the Min-y-don caravan park on beach road.i didn’t know about the artillery practice range on morfa harlech and also a P38 fighter which is still on the beach and reveals itself at very low tides.
@@TheAde71 I’ve heard about that but I’ve never seen it
Very nice video.😊
@@tuberdave1 thank you