How can this be underneath a city ?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2021
- How can this fit underneath a city. Its a massive river culvert. In this video we take a journey to Sheffield in the UK. We are going to look at a fantastic storm drain that is locally known as Megatron. We initially follow the Porterbrook to its confluence with the River Sheaf the very river that gave Sheffield its name. This confluence is found under the main Sheffield Midland Railway station. We follow the river Sheaf until it gets to the mighty Megatron chamber. A huge underground chamber that is a brick built victorian arch designed to carry trams across the river sheaf above ground back in the late 19th century Victorian times. Megatron is a victorian storm drain designed to carry the flood waters of the River Sheaf and the Porterbrook safely out underground Sheffield to the River Don. Lots of walking in old Victorian river culverts in waders. This is an underground urbex in Victorian brick built river culverts hidden underground in the city of Sheffield UK
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Hi Martin, great to see you on this side of the pennines in my old stomping ground, you did well to explore it in one go. I spent several days down there, going a bit further each visit, and remembering all the deep pools and slippy bits as I spent hours light painting, trying to get the perfect photograph
Still unbelievable that this magnificent structure lies hidden under the streets of Sheffield, and thanks for giving me a mention, appreciate that, all the best with your future explores.....Pat
Hello Pat great to hear from you. Yes this was very much inspired by you and your videos. I think you did a better job as you got in the other end as well and had a boat. Also love your light painting, great results. We just took a few snaps. All the best Martin 👍🏼
I would've love to see you both exploring this . All the best Patrick
Please do something together you are both awesome !
@@MartinZero Patrick was my inspiration for visiting this amazing place,Mind you least you didn't destroy a £3000 Nikon camera by getting it wet here !
You two should 100% colaberate
I could tell this wasn't a wholly happy experience, Martin - a smattering of 'choice' language. Good that you sped up parts of the journey. The bald fella, of the 2 walking the other way, is TH-camr The Bald Yorkshireman.
I quite enjoyed it to be honest
The stones sticking out of the walls at 29:07 are corbels, and would have supported the timber frame over which the bricks were laid to make the culvert. Smashing film, you are at your best in the water in tunnels. 👍
29:11 beautifully crafted brickwork, even though nobody would see it, amazing.
You've got balls to make that journey. Well done, Martin & team.
Kudos to Martin & Crew for darn-near risking their lives by exploring these places while we sit at home nursing a coffee and enjoying the presentation! Thumbs up.
I agree: Patrick makes all his endeavours in and around Sheffield look like nice pleasant adventures! I am addicted to his content.
My knees are sore just watching you lads go through that tunnel on your haunches.
My legs were mega aching the next day
@@MartinZero it'll keep you fit.
I know Sheffield well, but I've never been under it.
Hahahaha...that was all asesome to see, and you were funny, thank you so much Martin, Loved the old bits. Love Roos 🙋🏻♀️🌹🤗👍🏻💪🏻
Thanks Roos great explore I enjoyed it 🤔
@@MartinZero I am happy for you thanks have a nice day 😜😁
6:22
See that window at the top of the wall straight ahead? Imagine that being your bedroom.
Mega Trash last week, Megatron this week. Really excellent stuff Martin, Ant and Julian. That looked none too easy!
Cheers Mike, yeah a difficult walk in places
At least you started with a decent coffee!!!! A touch of the old Medlock days with this one. Fantastic to see all that hidden brick/stonework, outfalls and arches - much more interesting underground. 👍🏻❤
Wow ! Great video Martin. Thanks again for risking life and limb, getting wet, knackering your back up and worse still, being in Yorkshire 😝, for our entertainment. Keep up the great work.
Hi. Watched Ant's video yesterday. I've just watched yours: really enjoyed your Mancunian bluntness! 😂
Thanks for another interesting walk in a place I'm glad to have seen but much happier that it was you lads and not me down there! 👍
Cheers Phil 😃
Magnificent. Thank you, again, Martin. As explained I'm behind with my viewing. Thanks also to your fellow intrepid explorers. I only wish I was 50 years younger and lived in the area that you explore.
Great video! Thanks for mentioning Patrick Dickinson, you are both excellent explorers.
Another cracking video Martin. 👍👍
Thanks very much Chris
Sunday nights are Martin Zero nights!
Absolutely brilliant stuff!
Thanks very much Ellie
Just to add, the Sheaf gives Sheffield its name: Sheaf-field.
Thanks for confirming that Henry. I was guessing that might be it. The A has been dropped over the years due to pronunciation I suppose.
And the river Don gave Doncaster its name. Interesting isn't it
go to meersbrook
Why then does Borrowdale not have the river Borrow? Instead Derwent?
@@hoppinonabronzeleg9477 It's name was borrowed?
You could have parked at my work and dropped into Megatron from the other side. I work opposite the station!
Oh thats a future video then Edward
@@MartinZero Do it..plenty to explore around Sheffield. The old tram tracks on Exchange St were only pulled up last year, they were buried under tarmac. Plenty of old lead and coal mines, railway lines and all sorts. Keep the videos coming!
Mega! Enjoyed that. What a fantastic structure hidden from view beneath the streets, subterranean history alive and still working.
Great explore Martin, and not one mention of Optimus Prime!
Martin your use of maps put your explores a cut above the others. Much appreciated.
What amazes me, isn't how it was built or the quality of the engineering. It's the people who inevitably go down there to maintain it!
Great collaboration with Ant. Two great channels. Love it.
Thanks Rob
A canoe would be a better choice just a thought, love the history and adventuring around Britain keep it up martin
Bit of a bugger to carry down there John
I seem to remember Pat got about as far as you did but then came back with his kayak and went in from the River Don end.
Yeah he did. I would love to do that
There should be an urbex themed water park with different rides for each of the most well known waterways. But with clean water, obvs 😅
With Martin as the guide
I fancy that
Why not a global chain? MartinZero park in the UK, Exploring Abandoned Mines in Canada, and a Smoke N Scan bus tour in the USA.
I'd be well up for that
Like that chlorinated bit of Venetian canal in Las Vegas only more fun…
Back to your normal habitat!! Thanks for posting.
Thank you Martin for another rivetting explore by three mad Young men !!
Very brave once again, many thanks for an exciting journey. Pete
At 9:03 it's amazing to see the different stages of construction, the old, the very old and the Mega old. This must have been a tuff adventure as I have never heard the word "shit" so many times, LOL. The stone and brickwork is amazing, can't say much for the spray concrete. This was a great watch, it was almost 37 minutes but went by so fast. What a great team, missed James. Martin it seems you have a very enjoyable life..... Stay safe and stay strong........
Yeah James bottled it. Cheers Mike
brings back good memories going down here as a student in Sheffield. I went from porter brook on shadow vale road, all the way under the ground to the Megatron :-) cheers for the vid
Fantastic. I must say Martin I am in awe of all those men who built that whole underground system. What a feat. I am also in awe of you and your mates for doing this explore and sharing it with us. Thank you so much. Look forward to next one.
Superb Mr Zero, thanks!
Great explore Martin many thanks.
Superb video Martin. Next time I'm at Sheffield Station I will think of this undoubtedly
That was fascinating! Love how it is called Megatron. To me it conjures up the name of some high tech works or the name of the super villain in a Sci-Fi movie.
Well Megatron is the villain in the transformers franchise so that might be why haha
Love the picture in Megatron with the brickwork arch and the small man standing in the background. Glad you brought your waders.
another amazing video. Thank you Martin 👌
Thanks for the guided tour !
Impressive structures just below the streets.
Actually it is even more impressive when you think about how old it is.
Nice work Martin: got a cramp in my neck just watching the footage in the low sections! It'd be terrifying down there after a big downpour...
Fab vid Mart, Those arches and that little channel looked awesome, but clearly challenging!
Where the rivers meet, that chamber looks huge!
The chamber where the trams went over was awesome and the arches on the way to it.
Yeah it was great to finally se it after watching videos on it
UK is very beautiful country.
For a moment there I thought you were going to have a close encounter with the very wet ghosts of Messrs Chadwick & Thurwall. 😁
That was great Martin. Amazing infrastructure holding up the railway station.
Thank you Martin for nice video see you next week
Great Video Martin,Thank God For The Stick 👍👍
Yeah I almost didnt take it
Well done all of you,that was quite involved blimey ... Funny to think they buried all that history to build a station.
Great video Martin, very interesting thank you.
Martin you are amazing! I absolutely love watching your cinematographic adventures/productions.
Thanks very much Adam
Another great one! Thank you for being that guy. The guy that goes and does and relates and shows the tales.
You mentioned it at least twice Martin where people above were looking down wondering what you were doing standing in the river! But that is just it, while the world above goes about it's busy, hectic, mostly meaningless existence, there are intrepid folks like yourselves who wonder about the old pathways and side streets with an eye for history. If we're honest, your heart wasn't really into this explore 100% but we are glad you persevered and saw it through. History was once again made alive, Thank You!
Cool explore thanks for sharing
Brilliant as always Martin, I said on Ants channel, you must have walked miles, he said you were down there 4 hours, good job he knew where he was going.
Yeah got in about half 9 out about 2 ish maybe later
The train journey went through some awesome scenery by the looks, I thought Martin was mad taking the train instead but it looks a lovely relaxing trip.
Yeah it was a good decision to be honest
Mr Zero: Nought wrong with trains. We should have more of them and less road traffic. I'll tell you that for nothing so put your wallet away.
Exits though sewer outlet.
Fade to brown.
It's "lovely and relaxing" now the Pacers have gone!
Great vlog thanks.
Thanks Paul
I watched Ant’s release of this a couple of days ago and now yours. They compliment each other well as you each have your own presentational and historical styles.
Great video thank you for sharing 👍
Epic explore Martin, brick arches..and the bats...👍👍
Fascinating!
Cracking adventure in Yorkshire Martin. Best from Madrid.
So happy to see you do this one! It's still my favourite culverts I've explored.
There's more to the porter brook the other direction. But glad you went to the start point of the Sheaf, it's deffo worth it!
The picture at the exit of the Megatron was really helpful in explaining what it is and where it was as well.
Especially for people that aren't from the UK or haven't seen the area!
If you can, keep doing that for the future.
I’m looking at the trains so very comfortable and modern a big change from what l remember in 1959 before l moved to U S A love your videos so much history and enjoyable to watch
Such a good explore, thank you for being the crazy man who does this on our behalf. I can spend hours watching you wade through crap for the benefit of my enjoyment. Seriously though, it's a big thing producing these films so all credit to you for doing it for us to enjoy.
Thanks Martin that was brilliant. Take care and all the best. Stevie
That looked gruelling, Martin. Loved the sight of the old bridges culverted over. Great presentation. You really are the consumate professional these days, martin.🇯🇪
Amazing engineering, wonderful video Martin
Wow amazing brick work.
What a tour! So many layers of history in each of those tunnels!
Yeah great to see that old bridges
well done! that's an amazing set of tunnels!
appreciated - good effort
Great video, ive decided to volunteer for sheaf and porter trusts hidden river tours and had my first trip down today and did 2 tours, learnt a few things from this, very interesting, thanks!
Oh right how was the tour ? was it good ?
@@MartinZero yeah was good, much better when theres a few people, makes it abit easier in the deeper areas near the megatron and they pointed out all the areas to watch out for
This was both fascinating and terrifying. Cheers
Hi Martin, wow so much amazing brickwork, the architecture was pretty stunning and when you consider it was built in the latter half of the 1800's it was planned really well. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖
Great video as usual. Complemented Ant's video perfectly. That chamber was vast, like a manmade cave.
I can't be the only one thinking of baldurs gate
Thanks for these videos. For those of us who are both too afraid as well as not able to see things like this where we love. (US here).
Absolutely superb Martin 👍
Thanks James
Great Video and explore,
It's amazing to think how many bricks/stones were used in the construction of these underground tunnels. It's also weird to think that every person that touched one of these bricks was a navvy and are long gone but not forgotten...😃👍
Love to look at the brick and stonework. The engineering that went into the tunnels is fantastic
10:42 I also watched Pat's Megatron video a while ago. It was worth every minute too!
love that video Pat is such a legend
Yeah Pat went in from the other side
@@MartinZero pat did a couple of videos and went in from both sides .😂😂 Can't remember if he took a dinghy or something but probably cooked dehydrated squirrel
Enjoy watching your work Martin....I live near Portsmouth so years ago explored old bunkers in Portsdown hill before they were sealed...Never had phones or maps..Only Torches!! Great stuff...Subbed!
That stone/brick tunnel before "megatron" has many skew sections to it, really interesting!
Very interesting, thanks
Another great video Martin
good stuff m8, the station looked a bit like Ballarat. until the gov 'improved it'. Bats are kool, there maneuverability is amazing. Keep up the walk, stay safe, vertical, an well eh!
Really interesting Martin the brick work in some places was lovely, must of been deafening with that water I must admit I don't like water in the dark so respect Martin. Thanks again cheers!
Great stuff yet again! :)
It's been a long time, but you said it. "And it stinks". Always makes me laugh. Great video Martin, just shows we don't know what's under our cities.
Hello Martin, just watched again the Megatron video, I get annoyed that these beautiful rivers are culverted over, but I dare say without the culverting they probably wouldn't exist (as we know them) or we would be oblivious to them. Keep up the good work.
Nice to see the spider like you Martin 👍
I've seen that boarding on platform 5 but had forgotten about it since Pat's video.
I wanna go back and look
In 2018 I took a train trip from York to Manchester Piccadilly so a little of this looked familiar. Hope to visit England again next year.
The Underworld is so interesting. You find Things, that are forgotten and waiting to find.
Great as always
Thanks 👍
Hi Martin. Another bottler. Thanks also to your mates. Who would guess all of that was going on beneath the traveller's feet as they stood on Sheffield Station. The historical photos and the maps were once again excellent. I tracked it on Google Maps as you went. The 1890 (I think it was) map was interesting showing how the Sheaf opened out as it joined the Don. It also showed a slaughterhiuse on tbe banks of the Don. I can imagine where the discarded material went. Thanks again.
Another quality video top man keep them coming 👍👍👍👍
Thanks very much Andrew
Wonderful video, watching you doing things I would never dare p👋🏻
Thanks Ruud
Superb,love your videos,this one is probably the best I have seen,thank you and stay bloody safe.
Thank you Sue 👍