A TIME-LAPSE THROUGH THE STANDEDGE TUNNEL - DIGGLE TO MARSDEN
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- This video is a little different to our usual vlogs. This is the complete time-lapse of our journey through the Standegde Tunnel. If you you don't like the music, just mute the video and play your own.
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Thanks so much for this. I'm trying to imagine those navvies working inch by inch, brick by brick and hewing out rock in the construction of the tunnel. I don't know how they did it. And of course respect is also due to the maintenance teams to the present day.
It must have seemed like an almost impossible task. Just incredible
I admire your audio gauntlet being thrown down. But I like your music choice, so it's not a problem for me.
Nice change to the format too.
PS respect is well and truly due to the many that mined that tunnel from rock back in the days of candles and pick axes...
It’s incredible isn’t it. To see the rock like that really illustrates what they were dealing with.
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with you but we should also doff our caps to those who maintain it still.
I find it amazing how long you can see the exit for. Many thanks for the video.
If only it was that quick in reality, every time I see peoples footage of the tunnel I'm always amazed that it was dug by hand, Awesome feet of engineering.
It’s a pretty incredible tunnel isn’t it. Yeah. Two hours is a long time to be underground
Couldn't help thinking of the men who built the tunnel then, later in, those who had to leg through it, bet the horses enjoyed their walk over the top though. 😊
Yes, it’s an incredible feet of engineering! And yes... four hours of legging a boat through is a lot of work.
Hi Jo & Michael, Jo I am with you, I would rather walk over the top! Michael, it just goes to show the lengths you go to, to showcase the navigable waters of the canals of England. It also shows why you have the best and most interesting TH-cam channel on narrow boating. Congratulations to you both on your continued efforts, a great video. Regards a fan from Aus.
Thank you for such kind words. It’s honestly so nice to hear. Glad you enjoy the videos
Excellent footage......thanks for taking time to upload the footage......thanks for sharing
Thank for the kind word. It’s so nice to hear!
Its like warp factor 8 but for narrowboats.
Haha!
If you want warp 9, change the TH-cam playback speed to 2x :-)
Loved the video and music to go with. At least I have an idea of what to expect if and when we tackle it. Just to think that when it was dug out they only had primitive tools and slight guesswork with any blasting they did - what a challenge to take on!
Glad to hear it! There are a lot of locks but we totally recommend a trip on the Huddersfield Narrow canal. Yeah, it’s incredible really. Especially the tunnel
That was awesome!!! Thanks 😍
Thanks for watching
Reflections of the naturally hewn rock in the water were amazing.
Wow the work that would have gone into that ... maybe 5 feet a day on a good day ...and millions of bricks and all the brick work ...Geeze !!! Thank You and well done !!! : )
It’s incredible isn’t it!
@@MinimalList Very !! Thank You for the ride along : )
Nice! A little distraction during an otherwise yucky day. Thanks for sharing.
It’s quite hypnotic... Thanks for watching
Yet anther, in its day, fantastic feat of engineering!!!!! Compared to what the Chinese and others are doing today it pales, but if you read and understand the history you get to see, thanks again boy...
Exactly, at the time it was absolutely cutting edge and it changed history
Reminds me of an acid trip, especially when water hit the camera.
The bricked up parts reminded me of some old sewers. But the bare rock walls were interesting, I'd be stopping every 10 feet to sample the rocks (the geologist in me).
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It was interesting to see the tunnel surface change as you went deeper and deeper
Heh, wish you could have seen Hang Son Doong and the Paradise Cave in Vietnam I went into... in the latter there was a crystalline stalagmite that pinged like bella when you tapped it, and in the former flowstone outcroppings 60m tall, and cave pearls everywhere... I loved Standedge, but from a geology perspective it’s nothing in Vietnam! M
Very impressive work on that tunnel. Loved the video as well. There were moments that transported me back to the light shows of '60's rock clubs.
Stunning vlog. Astonished by the unreinforced areas where it’s tons of mountain above.
Thank you! Eek. Best not to think about that when underneath it all!
Thanks, that was great.Sure was a soaker in places. Keep safe.
Yeah, michael wasn’t expecting to emerge quite so damp!
That is a award winning video. The best yet.scares me to death watching it but just cant look away.you are a brave man.i salute you for being that brave.keep up the good work you too
Thank you! 👍🏻
Hi GREAT vlog well done.
Thanks so much!
That was really interesting. I’m curious what the stops were for. Was he charming the status of something? You had quite a long stop where he had you back up. Was that to see the pattern on the roof?
The stops were for the chaperone to check in with ‘tunnel control’. The long stop at the end was because the trip boat from the visitor centre had brought a group into the end of the tunnel and we had to wait for them to finish their tour. We talk a bit more about it in this vlog! th-cam.com/video/cnTYhm-Wp1M/w-d-xo.html
Very cool visually. It reminded me of some flooded mins I've seen on video. Thanks for the trip!
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful kaleidoscope... your LED boat lamp is great and that little LED torch really made the difference with the reflections adding to the multitude of shapes it makes. I would have been tempted to tie a couple of fenders to cope with the masses of kinks.
Have to give the credit for the lighting to the huge LED work lamps our guide brought along with him... our tunnel lamp barely did any of it, by comparison. Don’t think fenders would be a good call, more likely to get you wedged in some places than anything else, though they may save a bit of paint. M
@@MinimalList in that case one of those work lamps is on my shopping list!!!
Wow - I was actually ducking in my chair as I watched that. There was some really low clearance spots through there, weren't there? It was interesting that you could see the end of the tunnel a good long way off, wasn't it? Thanks for the video!
Yeah, there were definitely some close shaves! The fun ones were the under 6 inches of clearance ones! M
Now I really enjoyed this,different but nice,thanks for posting take care xx.👌👍
Thank you. Normal vlogs will resume next time
That was so cool to see. Thanks so much for sharing it.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! 👍🏻
Very impressive, both the voyage and the editing, top job appreciated..
Thank you! 😊
Great video. Looks like you had more than a few scrapes with the walls, how much of your new blue gunwale paint did you leave behind and did you do any damage to your upper paint work?
Loved this!!!!...but here is a stupid question...why not dig a canal with locks? Why the tunnel?
It would have taken a lot more lock to get up and over the peak. The tunnel meant quicker passage despite it taking 4 hours for a boat to be legged through it would still have been quicker than locks
Minimal List thank you for the answer. Makes sense
Probably a lot easier for the water supply as well.
A surprising amount of variation of linings, directions, sizes and everything else.. really surprising..
Yes. Fascinating wasn’t it
Just amazing.
It’s quite the tunnel!
Did you see Michael, that season 3 of The Great Pottery Throw down has started. I binged watched 5 episodes Saturday. TH-cam channel "Cherzo" is posting them. Love to see what they make. Watching from my snowy home in NE Ohio USA. Loved, loved, loved this. I watched it 3 times. The white parts (cement?) looked like an ice cavern. I could see how it was not a straight tunnel. Thank you for this.
I’ll confess living as we do without a regular TV I haven’t seen it, but I’ll look for the TH-cam route. Glad you liked the tunnel... those whit(ish) bits will have been the spray-on concrete from some of the more recent repairs. M
@@MinimalList 👍
It was cool! And wet! I was expecting to have some small segments of real-time scrape-and-groan in the areas where Michael said he left blue paint on the wall . . .
Nope, this one was just pure time-lapse. To be honest Michael didn’t film much as he was going through. Unfortunately our cameras Aren’t that good in the dark
Trippy! Looks like a colonoscopy to the center of the earth.
Deeper and deeper they went!
Thank you.
That was great
Glad you enjoyed it!
Superbly timed with the music!
Thank you! 😊
Another trip through the tunnel. Don’t mind if I do. There was something mesmerising about that.
Almost hypnotic! Apart from the bumps and scrapes in the sides
Minimal List Decided not to mention those 😀. However, at least with time lapse you barely notice them.
Great video! That tunnel was crazy long twisting and tight!
Makes me miss work 27 years in NYC sewers🙃
Hope no bad smells🙂
😳 nope! Thank goodness
Completed in 1811... I can not imagine this being built in the 1810s. "Grab a shovel," ... 'Pass'
Pretty much... pick and shovel changed the face of England. M
Its not the lowness that would get me, its the narrowness and windiness. The total mental attention it would take to avoid scraping the hull.
I happened upon this by accident. At first I thought it was a video of an oesophagael stethoscope being used on the world's longest snake!
Pretty similar, really! M
Epic journey
Thank you!
Is it an environment that suffers from methane build-up? Were there explosions when it was being built? Great vid btw!
No ideal I’m afraid! 🤷♀️
Awesome video. I thought the tunnel would have been a lot straighter and cleaner. I guess back in the day they just wanted to get it finished. What is that at 3:42 Looks like cables crossing the tunnel?
Looks like one of the various old conduits they put in to carry various things across the canal between the train tunnels. Some of the old ones are wood with what looked like tin or maybe lead flashing, but there’s also some more modern ones. They duct around electrical and phone lines for the lighting and communication gear in the various side tunnels and safety retreats that are there for the train lines. M
@@MinimalList Thanks, Interesting to know. :-)
Yet another, in its day, fantastic feat of engineering!!!!! Compared to what the Chinese and others are doing at present it pales, ibut if you read the history etc etc you get to understand.
looks like you were being beamed up onto the Narrowboat Enterprise!
It did at that speed! Haha!
did you notice how the light at the end of the tunnel got further away the closer you got to it
Sure felt like it! Though to be fair at one point the light at the end of the tunnel was the trip boat that actually was backing up. M
Wow. That was intense. How does the trip boat work? How far in does it travel and does it back out?
It travels in approximately 200 meters, apparently, to the first point where there’s a crossing to the train tunnel. And yes it backs straight out again. Apparently it’s got four orbital thrusters, rather like bow thrusters you can aim, so it’s quite maneuverable in reverse as well as in forward. M
That’s the scariest thing Ive ever done!!! I have severe claustrophobia. I drove an 18 wheeler for 40 years and every day I had to talk myself through getting in the bunk. Please never make me take that route again!! What would happen if you got stuck,or a ceiling collapsed,or another boat came the other direction and you both ran out of fuel , or there was a nuclear bomb and it collapsed the exit,or a severe rain storm came and raised the water so high that you got wedged in there and couldn’t get out,or,,,,,,you see how my brain works???
If the water level rose at that altitude, most of Lancashire and Yorkshire would be under several feet of water.
And those are some of the many reasons I chose to walk over the top. With the chaperone it’s pretty safe and there are lots of stops along the way to check in with ‘tunnel control’
That was actually a lot better after seeing the first video with the full explanation of the trip through the tunnel. Thanks for posting because I'm not sure I would have re-watched the first video.
Glad the two videos worked well together
Super!
How did you manage to wangle David Attenborough as your guide?
Thank you for that. I can see what you meant by the occasional deluge. It is a fascinating and impressive feat of engineering. The different techniques employed to cope with the differing substrata was most interesting. Take care and God Bless, Paul from Florida.
How long is that tunnel? Is it a common passage for everyone on their boats or just for official use? Thanks for sharing!
There is a lot more info in this video th-cam.com/video/cnTYhm-Wp1M/w-d-xo.html
This tunnel is three and a half miles long and anyone can take their boat though but you have to book a slot in advance.
th-cam.com/video/cnTYhm-Wp1M/w-d-xo.html I hope that answers all your questions :-0
I expected a vintage episode of Dr Who at the end of that. Cracking video.
Do you know what the arrangements are for the chaperone on trad stern boats? I'd be very wary of having someone with the steerer when the only place for them to go is on the counter. The only safe place at the back in tunnels is on the step, and there's not room for two there!
S,
I've done it a couple of times on a trad stern. When the roof is low, you duck.
I’m pretty sure you’d have to keep the hatch open and have them step down in the lowest sections. It’d be a squeeze, that’s for sure! M
Why did your guide stop to contact control? i assume it was simply to inform control that you had got to a certain point in the tunnel and all was ok?
Unfortunately, a few years ago, someone hit his head on a tunnel roof, fell in the cut and drowned. Now CRT are sensibly cautious about ensuring safety as much as possible.
It’s mainly about them knowing you’ve made it through each section and that they don’t need to send anyone to the rescue... if someone doesn’t call in they know roughly what section to look in. M
Awesome place, love to go through but know it's not for me. To think it was built by hand you have to admire the navvies.
Looks like London Underground emergency telephone system would work well, two wires run along the tunnel so all driver to do if train broke down in a tunnel lean out the cab window and clip on a handset. Congratulations on the silver propeller, silver dog for Geo
Might be something like that in the train tunnels... in the canal tunnel I doubt there’s enough call for it, the four little redoubts work well enough. Plus it’s bloody wet down there! M
Not exactly what you would call a "straight shot" - unique video.
Tunnel weather forecast: Intermittent Showers
Accurate!
I just simply turned the volume down or put on the Doctor Who theme and yeah :)
Are there any passing points or is it strictly 'one at time'?
It's usually mornings one way, afternoons the other.
@@danensis Thanks.. It looked like the tunnel widened in a couple of spots. Can there be more than one vessel in the tunnel at the same time?
Yep, there was a boat a few hundred feet behind us.
How are Ciara and Dennis treating you (storms)
We haven’t had it too bad so far! Thanks for asking
Below should have ended silver dog tag for George?. A case of "fat finger"
Thanks for this, and the last video too. Can TH-cam gongoozlers apply for an associated Silver Propeller Award too ?? Just one question about the transit ... at 1:30 or so , there seemed to be 'smoke'; was it diesel exhaust from the railway tunnel or some camera effect. I've ruled out low cloud and hill fog.
It was probably diesel exhaust from us, coupled with the chill down there. I think that was just after I’d had to do a hard reverse to let our guide off, so I’d chucked a bit more smoke than usual out of our engine, and it floated in front of us. M
Anybody else see the couple kissing in the shadows on the right hand side of the tunnel at around 5:40 ?
I’m looking, but I’m not seeing. Might need a screenshot. M
@@MinimalList 5:44 to 5:48 it is the white boat light on the tunnel. not sure how to screen shot.Just subscribed but have been watching for the last year. New Zealand viewer.
Lol nice one - I'm watching this with zorba the Greek playing😂 - thank you for sharing this with us ❤️😁xx
Haha! Glad you found some alternative music that worked! 🤣
@@MinimalList I did watch it again with your music as well which was also good 👏❤️😁x
i watch everyone of your vlogs and have always enjoyed them but i watched first minute and thought not for me...i really dont like time lapse as its far too fast and honestly not really enjoyable,,,,that said i fully understand the reason for doing it and my opinion is just that Im sure many others will have watched it all and enjoyed the 70mph trip ,,,keep them great regular vlogs coming I need my weekly fix....kind regards to the 3 of you Martin
Yeah, I knew it wouldn’t be for everyone but wanted to post it anyway. New ‘normal’ vlog coming tomorrow or Thursday!
The vlog was great, music fitted perfectly, but, I'd prefer to walk over it and not go through it.
Thanks Maggie!
Doctor Who title
I’m sure you went in a circle.....lol.....plenty of bends in that one
Haha! It’s a little kinky!