How ingenious. Having a complex in the tunnel to service the iron works. The civil engineering that went into that was incredible. It is mind blowing. 🤯👍
I'm so glad your channel showed up on my screen somehow. The history, the architecture, the beautiful scenery, the maps, The historical photos, the cinematography, the structural details of how it all interrelates, your passionate observations, there's just so much going on in your videos and it's all great. Your treks are top notch in so many ways. 👍
Really fascinating video, with so much industrial heritage. Given the very unusual wharf inside Butterley Tunnel and its connection to local industries, it would be marvellous if it were restored - but it seems a major engineering headache and probably extremely expensive. Looking forward to the next installment.
Subscribing to your excellent channel was one of my better choices online! Once again, brilliant video which I thoroughly enjoyed first time and will enjoy again later upon a bigger scree off my U.S.B. pen. Thank you!
Fantastic video thanks Ant. Love my trains and canals. Some beautiful scenery where you are. Really looking forward to next video. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Thanks so much, Ant, for doing the Butterley tunnel! It would be so great if it could ever be reopened, wouldn't it? Lovely scenery round there too - and the usual beautiful music. Looking forward to the next part!
Excellent video, the engineering of the BUtterly tunnel is a fantastic sight. Brilliant old photos of the canal, sadly the logistics of opening the tunnel again will be very difficult. Railway and canal infrastructure in the same video! You spoil us. Thanks, stay safe and well 👍👌
Thanks Ant, fantastic memorys of a wonderful route I peddled many times! I have a picture somewhere of me shouldering my bike up those steps & down across the A610. (training for a very long cycling event)
Hi there. Midland railway short of money and need to mend their main shed roof so museum building is closed but the steam engine and diesel sheds are open. Thanks for showing us where the canal used to go. Been on the narrow gauge railway too. caroline.
This is my favourite area being a Ripley lad. I tend to walk this a lot and I would love to one day go into the tunnel and have a look. Did you see the valve that is below the Dam at the Butterley before you got the weir? It is a path that goes down through the woods to a small door. Also before you went across the dam at Butterley reservoir did you find the first air Shaft? It's quite low down and you can stand on top and look into the canal. Also at the western portal did you see the small building that has been covered over by foliage? It' is a small room that I believe Leggers used to wait to leg the barge through the tunnel. The brick arch you mentioned at the iron works was an old blast furnace. Fantastic video as always. Very professional and makes great watching.
Wonderful video as ever, somewhere I'd love to exp;pre with my camera. Also ;pve your use of the maps + arrows during the trip makes the locations a lot easier to understand.
Presumably that was also the location of Butterley Brickworks? Didn’t realise the Cromford crossed under the A38 but to be fair I’ve usually been more interested in driving along it heading West
You lucky bugger, @7:55 you caught the kingfisher taking off from the tunnel grate. I've been down that way hundreds of times and never seen it on that small stretch of the canal.
Thank you for an excellent video,great to see my neck of the woods getting noticed.Did you find the 'secret door' to the tunnel in the first corner of Butterley Res?
@TrekkingExploration yes as you leave the 'road' and walk to the first corner of the res it's down to your left,a set of stone steps down to a door,you may be able to hear water running down into the tunnel.Not been down myself fir a while now so it's probably well overgrown.Thwres also another air shaft on the land where an old workshop was at that end of tunnel.Did you find the ironwork of the old narrowboat down at Hartshay?
If you had taken the track just to the left of the resovoir path running at the side of the coach road you would have come across another air shaft you can actually see down can’t tell how many times a year I walk that area literally a few minutes from home 👍
I guess cost would be the issue with reopening the tunnel. Other canal tunnels have had major relining work. Major mining subsidence could mean it needs realigning too which would make things more difficult.
@TrekkingExploration There's lots of pictures of explorations inside on the web. Not clear how long the collapsed sections are but at least the mining subsidence will have... subsided!
Ant, all the walking you put into your videos make for a fuller and more detailed story. Just wondering here: Was it a really cold day or did you take up smoking..... LOL
Great video Ant, the tunnel is fascinating. Was there any evidence of the shaft in butterly works. Hopefully the shaft was capped rather than filled so the warfe still exists. I think somewhere I've seen a picture of a water feed into the tunnel that looked like a branch off the tunnel Cheers Russ
Many thanks Ant, so very interesting, the engineers of the day are just brilliant. Take care.
Yet another masterful history production 👍👏👏👏👏
Great Video Ant - Liked the Railway bits!!! 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Excellent stuff. You can just imagine how amazing all this must have looked back in it's hay day. Thanks Ant, great work again.
How ingenious. Having a complex in the tunnel to service the iron works. The civil engineering that went into that was incredible. It is mind blowing. 🤯👍
I'm so glad your channel showed up on my screen somehow. The history, the architecture, the beautiful scenery, the maps, The historical photos, the cinematography, the structural details of how it all interrelates, your passionate observations, there's just so much going on in your videos and it's all great. Your treks are top notch in so many ways. 👍
Ah...Butterley tunnel!
Great video Ant! 👍🙂
Thanks for watching 😀
Really fascinating video, with so much industrial heritage. Given the very unusual wharf inside Butterley Tunnel and its connection to local industries, it would be marvellous if it were restored - but it seems a major engineering headache and probably extremely expensive. Looking forward to the next installment.
Quality as always great Sunday night video top man 👍👍👍
Very kind thank you
Maybe you could get a camera down that air shaft ??
Great video Ant. It’s amazing how much of our industrial heritage there is still left around us 👍👍
Excellent video Ant. Really enjoyed the map explanations with the old map overlay.
That was scenic and fascinating. Thank you, Ant.
Such history! Thanks Ant.
Thanks very much for watching 🙂
Subscribing to your excellent channel was one of my better choices online! Once again, brilliant video which I thoroughly enjoyed first time and will enjoy again later upon a bigger scree off my U.S.B. pen. Thank you!
Fantastic video thanks Ant. Love my trains and canals. Some beautiful scenery where you are. Really looking forward to next video. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care
Thanks so much, Ant, for doing the Butterley tunnel! It would be so great if it could ever be reopened, wouldn't it? Lovely scenery round there too - and the usual beautiful music. Looking forward to the next part!
Excellent video, the engineering of the BUtterly tunnel is a fantastic sight. Brilliant old photos of the canal, sadly the logistics of opening the tunnel again will be very difficult. Railway and canal infrastructure in the same video! You spoil us. Thanks, stay safe and well 👍👌
Thank you...
Love me a good tunnel, and that looks like quite an amazing adventure if only one could get inside.
Thanks Ant, fantastic memorys of a wonderful route I peddled many times! I have a picture somewhere of me shouldering my bike up those steps & down across the A610. (training for a very long cycling event)
all that history lost to progression keep up the good work ant
Excellent.
Hi there. Midland railway short of money and need to mend their main shed roof so museum building is closed but the steam engine and diesel sheds are open. Thanks for showing us where the canal used to go. Been on the narrow gauge railway too. caroline.
This is my favourite area being a Ripley lad. I tend to walk this a lot and I would love to one day go into the tunnel and have a look. Did you see the valve that is below the Dam at the Butterley before you got the weir? It is a path that goes down through the woods to a small door. Also before you went across the dam at Butterley reservoir did you find the first air Shaft? It's quite low down and you can stand on top and look into the canal. Also at the western portal did you see the small building that has been covered over by foliage? It' is a small room that I believe Leggers used to wait to leg the barge through the tunnel. The brick arch you mentioned at the iron works was an old blast furnace. Fantastic video as always. Very professional and makes great watching.
Great video Ant, there are 4 or 5 other videos (some with photos) from sections inside the tunnel on YT.
Love your videos ant
Thanks Paul very kind
Great video as usual. Had it not been for the A38 the Midland Railway could have run all the way to Ambergate.
Wow fantastic! Thankyou. 🫡✌️
Thanks very much for watching 😀
Excellent video very interesting. Looking forward the the next one. I love old history.
Wonderful video as ever, somewhere I'd love to exp;pre with my camera.
Also ;pve your use of the maps + arrows during the trip makes the locations a lot easier to understand.
Thanks
Very kind thank you 😊
@ welcome 🙏 this my patch lived here since a boy ..great video
Wonder what’s left above the canal tunnel loading bay? That’s very unusual!
I wild.love to photography that's can shaft and add it to my canal collection of photographys.
Presumably that was also the location of Butterley Brickworks? Didn’t realise the Cromford crossed under the A38 but to be fair I’ve usually been more interested in driving along it heading West
You lucky bugger, @7:55 you caught the kingfisher taking off from the tunnel grate. I've been down that way hundreds of times and never seen it on that small stretch of the canal.
Ooooh wow I'll have to look back
Is it likely that the reservoir was built to provide a water source for topping up the canal ? A lot were back in the day.
Thank you for an excellent video,great to see my neck of the woods getting noticed.Did you find the 'secret door' to the tunnel in the first corner of Butterley Res?
Thanks very much for watching. I'm going back for a walk around both butterley reservoirs soon. Is this door easy to find?
@TrekkingExploration yes as you leave the 'road' and walk to the first corner of the res it's down to your left,a set of stone steps down to a door,you may be able to hear water running down into the tunnel.Not been down myself fir a while now so it's probably well overgrown.Thwres also another air shaft on the land where an old workshop was at that end of tunnel.Did you find the ironwork of the old narrowboat down at Hartshay?
Great video, so much history just rotting away, hidden from view, its a shame really, what a waste
If you had taken the track just to the left of the resovoir path running at the side of the coach road you would have come across another air shaft you can actually see down can’t tell how many times a year I walk that area literally a few minutes from home 👍
I'm going back soon for a mooch around I'll give it a look out
I guess cost would be the issue with reopening the tunnel. Other canal tunnels have had major relining work. Major mining subsidence could mean it needs realigning too which would make things more difficult.
Being abandon since 1899 is quite a worry too I imagine if cost wasn't an issue a complete rebore would be the best option
@TrekkingExploration There's lots of pictures of explorations inside on the web. Not clear how long the collapsed sections are but at least the mining subsidence will have... subsided!
Ant, all the walking you put into your videos make for a fuller and more detailed story.
Just wondering here: Was it a really cold day or did you take up smoking..... LOL
Lee have a emergency starter battery but only for I C gonna be a big one for EV s
Great video Ant, the tunnel is fascinating. Was there any evidence of the shaft in butterly works. Hopefully the shaft was capped rather than filled so the warfe still exists. I think somewhere I've seen a picture of a water feed into the tunnel that looked like a branch off the tunnel
Cheers Russ