What a marvellous piece of film making, easily of TV documentary standard. Garsdale is such a magic spot, truly the junction in the clouds. A set of programs like this would make wonderful viewing on Channel 5.
Beyond amazing. Just the best presenter of the best topic. Stuns me when Portillo pretends to be interested in his old book and trains but actually spends 95% of each episode visiting places and no real focus on railways. Rob Bell does a nice job, but Gordon you’re right on his shoulder, you should be on tv. Thanks for what you do. 👍
Portillo like all Tory's is far too found of Posh hotel overnight stays. And how wonderful the Country was Run, During the Victorian era. Great comment..!! Cheers from Oz 😎
@@samuraifool912 this is it, it’s so obvious it’s like a free and paid holiday touring U.K. and indeed across the world he’s been too, with nice hotels as you say......and little real interest in the railways themselves. He’s a charismatic enough guy, and a good sport doing some things that he clearly isn’t comfortable for (I dunno, skydiving, rugby, soccer, boxing, etc ) but the programme just seems to lack any real focus on the railways themselves as you say. Cheers, have a great day!
@@THIRV I happily pay to watch him SkyDive Minus a Parachute mind..! I am an Ex Pat. Who worked as a Printer. In Uk. till 1981 Escaping to Oz. And away from the Later years of Tory Union Bashing..! But some People still raise my B.P. he's one. I have vague Memories of Steam and Used Trains all time in Uk. So seeing those Old Viaducts and Old Stations being cared for. Is a Great thing..!! Stay Safe n Well. Cheers kim, in the LandDownunder.😎
@@samuraifool912 ROFL 🤣 brilliant Kim. Imagine the scenes! Tallyhooooooooooo ....squelch. Ah you are one of the many who escaped and never came back. Swathes of my dad's family I.e. his brother and sister both moved to Oz in the 50s and raised big families all down the east coast and a good friend and colleague of mine also moved 20 years ago. No one ever looks back. Except for to think of the great restoration work on old viaducts and bridges here as you say !!! Love it. A lot of focus on it these days thankfully. Government wants to infill underneath old overbridges where lines once went under. Thankfully again activists are stopping that. I'm sure you're loving life out there. Have a great day!!! Take care. Si.
@@THIRV I Don't Regret moving here at all. But if u can Believe it, if it Drops below 15°C. I think it's Freezing cold. But Thankfully No Snow to Worry about. Just Fire on 40°C Days. I Do miss the Green Countyside. It Gets Brown n Dry here in Sth. Australia. There is just so much of Australia to See. But its all a Huge Drive Away. Lived here 40 yrs and still Heaps to See..!! But Australia is a Great place to be ATM, because of Covid. So that's a Plus..!! Cheers kim.😎
Fascinating and once again a fabulous watch...stunning scenery viaducts and a disused tunnel....id loved to see this line reopen gordon ...but thank you for showing us this magical old railway ....regards Frank & Lee........
I'm really enjoying this series Gordon, it's beautifully done. I've walked many a mile of old trackbed too so I feel you're a kindred spirit. Just a small point if I may. The reference to the county boundary having moved at Garsdale is a technical issue. When the new administrative areas were created in 1974, the old historic county boundaries were still intended to be relevant and didn't cease to exist. Only time and constant reference to places like Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Merseyside as "counties" by the media and others, have lulled people into believing they are true counties. Which they certainly aren't in the historic traditional sense. Cumbria is an administrative lump comprising the true counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire (and part of Yorkdhire), so I never give it the respect it thinks it deserves. That aside, keep up the good work lad!
The viaduct at the beginning of this clip was going to be an embankment. However, after 2 years throwing material onto the site which just spread and refused to rise into said embankment they said something like "Sod it!" and built the viaduct instead. Another interesting fact is that the railway cottages nearby got all their water from a well under the viaduct right up to the 60's I believe.
. Would be GREAT for them to get it ALL THE WAY from Garsdale, through to Northallerton.!😁!. Imagine all the different routes that excursion trains could take then.!🤯!. Plus, what it would do for tourism at all the little villages en-route. Keeping lord knows how many cars off the lanes. LOVE THE VIDS Gordon. KEEP'EM COMING RICH. 🥰🥰🥰.
Just found this site. Great story, Camera work and Scenery. Can't help thinking that all Disused lines, should become Public Right of Way. Regardless of who owns the land now. Royalty, Lords, Rich Land owners or Just New Monied Plonkers who think the have the Right to Restrict such Beauty to the Average Plebeian. Who likes to go for a Walk on their Day off..!! Anyway 'Trumpet Blown.!' Great work. Thanx for your efforts in Sharing with us all. You just got a New Subscriber. Cheers kim in Oz. 😎
What a great video Nodrog you said something there about a test train I have always wondered how they worked maybe they would let you do a video on them one day would be so cool
Just found your channel and I've subscribed! The Settle & Carlisle has 2 seasons - 5 months of "Winter" & 7 months of "Bad Weather". You got a reasonably dry day though! The navvies who built those lines must've been hardy souls.
Brought back memories of walking that line 45 years ago. No private land then so walked the whole length apart from a few hundred yards before the station. Thanks for making the film
Would you believe that the line went all the way to Northallerton. The section between Garsdale and Hawes was built by the Midland Railway and the rest by built by the NER. The station at Hawes is still there. Don't forget the line from Redmire to Northallerton is still there and is open as the Wensleydale Railway with services running between Redmire and Leeming Bar. MIght I add when they do reopen it'll be with PACER'S!!!! After the line closed to passengers. The line was kept open for freight to Redmire and if I'm right. The MOD took over the branch to run so they could take tanks by rail to and from the near by Catterick Garrison. Which leads to the unusual sight of tanks using the normal roads which have been strengthened for that reason. As passengers services went. The NER/LNER operated along the whole route but, the MR/LMS only ever operated a shuttle type service between Hawes and Garsdale. With the Governments ideas of reopening lines. This is one line that has been included in the list. The former turntable from Garsdale is now at Keighley on the KWVR
Great video again Gordon. Your videos are getting better and better! I love to see abandoned railways, and even better, ones that will hopefully be restored. I've been around that area as a coach driver and into Hawes station. Keep your abandoned railways videos coming, they are so well made.
Brilliant video with professional production values, demonstrating your mastery of the craft. You've achieved a broadcast quality documentary with this one. Well done, mate!
Great vlog.The reconnection to the Wensleydale line seems a no brainer to me.If governments and councils are serious about lowering emissions and cutting down on car use then connecting up this West, East link should be high on their list of priorities.I believe there is a locally run bus service, provided I think by volunteers, but I'm not sure if it runs all year.
It's fascinating looking at the cottages built by the Midland Railway to house the workers during the construction. Communities like Selside and Garsdale, still have those same cottages today
The old turntable is now at Keighley on the worth Valley railway, there is /was talk a while ago that someone one was planning to reopen the garsdale to Hawes section, a rumor was it was/is David Smith of West Coast railway fame, don't know if it's true or not, but I really hope that it will be reopened through out from Northallerton to garsdale, but yeah that tunnel is going to need some serious work done on it
Brilliant video. :) Loved the mention of the real life Tenders and Turntables incident. :) I do hope that the Wensleydale project is completed one day. :)
Another really underrated video Gordon 👍..the way you put them together could rival any program maker...informative and very enjoyable 😊they just keep getting better and better
I think Garsdale was formerly known as Hawes Junction. The last thing I heard, some years ago, was that there was an ongoing movement to reopen the line through the tunnel to Hawes.
Such a incredible and moving video. Such a shame that that many of the railways lines have been closed and lifted and some being preserved as heritage railways, bridleways and some that are to be reopened. And that viaduct is breathtaking.
Just stumbled across your channel and have subscribed. It’s a very good informative video, like your filming and presenting style. Might be worth investing in a hard hat for venturing into those tunnels 😉 Cheers Gary
That's such a shame about the partial collapse. I remember looking at some pictures of this tunnel from an urban explorer about 10 years ago and they mentioned there was a bulge in one of the walls. I wonder if it was where it has now collapsed.
Interesting video. Recently the Yorkshire Dales national park have been looking at creating a multi-user cycle path along that line from Hawes to Garsdale :)
The viaduct is more usually known as Dandry Mire Viaduct (pronounced Dandri Myr). The tunnel just north of it, and the pub close by are called Moorcock, after the bird. With ref to the earlier post, the pit for the turntable at Garsdale is still there, but the mechanism and table are now at Keighley.
Hi. Particularly nice presentation this one, (they are all good of course)! Just wondered if you have remotely operated cameras when setting up a shot, driving/walking away, driving/walking back into the take as it were or just leave camera running? Needless to say the editing is obviously a job in itself which helps this observer appreciate your dedication and skills. Thanks for being there.
Gordon, you have done it again !! I always look across to the Hawes branch track bed when driving the S and C and can see to a bit beyond the first underbridge out from Garsdale but now I know what is beyond that when the route goes out of view from my cab. Thanks mate, for sharing yet another great video !!
@@nodrogWhen the Midland Railway built Risehill Tunnel north of Dent Station they had to use tons of dynamite to get through the solid rock and even in 1874 it cost fifteen pounds per FOOT to construct it!.
I was first introduced to the Hawes Branch on the game Trainz 2006 and its was a nice little branch line. It would be nice if it could become a preserved line that could travel between Hawes and Garsdale. Petty about that tunnel.
Lovely country and a lovely relaxing video but you got the tunnel name wrong for it's not Moorcroft Tunnel but Mossdale Head Tunnel and it's 245 yards long and the last train ran through it on the 16th march 1959. Although as you rightly pointed out it is indeed used to store farm machinery but it hasn't been maintained since March 1959 and ground movement is now destroying it. If the Wensleydale Railway find the cost of repairs to the tunnel too prohibitive in their future extension to Garsdale then it maybe cheaper to open the tunnel out into a cutting as the crown of the tunnel is slowly being forced up due to ground pressures and there's very little ground above the tunnel. It makes me think it may have been built at the insistence of a landowner as often tunnels like Mossdale Head had to be built because a landowner didn't want the trains spoiling his view.
Sad to say that the Wensleydale Upper Restoration of the line from Garsdale to Hawes and possibly onto Askrigg has been blocked by the Yorkshire Dales National Park support for turning the trackbed into a Bridle Path. So again no benefit for tourists, locals and giving an option to get cars off the roads. Considering that regular direct trains from south of Manchester to Ribblehead are now running, it really does seem a waste
What a marvellous piece of film making, easily of TV documentary standard. Garsdale is such a magic spot, truly the junction in the clouds. A set of programs like this would make wonderful viewing on Channel 5.
Thank you so very much :)
This was a lovely video and do hope the Wensleydale connects to Garsdale one day.
Beyond amazing. Just the best presenter of the best topic.
Stuns me when Portillo pretends to be interested in his old book and trains but actually spends 95% of each episode visiting places and no real focus on railways.
Rob Bell does a nice job, but Gordon you’re right on his shoulder, you should be on tv.
Thanks for what you do. 👍
Portillo like all Tory's is far too found of Posh hotel overnight stays. And how wonderful the Country was Run, During the Victorian era.
Great comment..!!
Cheers from Oz 😎
@@samuraifool912 this is it, it’s so obvious it’s like a free and paid holiday touring U.K. and indeed across the world he’s been too, with nice hotels as you say......and little real interest in the railways themselves. He’s a charismatic enough guy, and a good sport doing some things that he clearly isn’t comfortable for (I dunno, skydiving, rugby, soccer, boxing, etc ) but the programme just seems to lack any real focus on the railways themselves as you say. Cheers, have a great day!
@@THIRV I happily pay to watch him SkyDive Minus a Parachute mind..!
I am an Ex Pat. Who worked as a Printer. In Uk. till 1981 Escaping to Oz. And away from the Later years of Tory Union Bashing..!
But some People still raise my B.P. he's one.
I have vague Memories of Steam and Used Trains all time in Uk. So seeing those Old Viaducts and Old Stations being cared for. Is a Great thing..!!
Stay Safe n Well. Cheers kim, in the LandDownunder.😎
@@samuraifool912 ROFL 🤣 brilliant Kim. Imagine the scenes! Tallyhooooooooooo ....squelch.
Ah you are one of the many who escaped and never came back. Swathes of my dad's family I.e. his brother and sister both moved to Oz in the 50s and raised big families all down the east coast and a good friend and colleague of mine also moved 20 years ago. No one ever looks back. Except for to think of the great restoration work on old viaducts and bridges here as you say !!! Love it. A lot of focus on it these days thankfully. Government wants to infill underneath old overbridges where lines once went under. Thankfully again activists are stopping that.
I'm sure you're loving life out there.
Have a great day!!! Take care. Si.
@@THIRV I Don't Regret moving here at all.
But if u can Believe it, if it Drops below 15°C.
I think it's Freezing cold. But Thankfully No Snow to Worry about. Just Fire on 40°C Days.
I Do miss the Green Countyside. It Gets Brown n Dry here in Sth. Australia.
There is just so much of Australia to See. But its all a Huge Drive Away.
Lived here 40 yrs and still Heaps to See..!!
But Australia is a Great place to be ATM, because of Covid. So that's a Plus..!!
Cheers kim.😎
Fascinating and once again a fabulous watch...stunning scenery viaducts and a disused tunnel....id loved to see this line reopen gordon ...but thank you for showing us this magical old railway ....regards Frank & Lee........
I'm really enjoying this series Gordon, it's beautifully done. I've walked many a mile of old trackbed too so I feel you're a kindred spirit. Just a small point if I may. The reference to the county boundary having moved at Garsdale is a technical issue. When the new administrative areas were created in 1974, the old historic county boundaries were still intended to be relevant and didn't cease to exist. Only time and constant reference to places like Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Merseyside as "counties" by the media and others, have lulled people into believing they are true counties. Which they certainly aren't in the historic traditional sense. Cumbria is an administrative lump comprising the true counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire (and part of Yorkdhire), so I never give it the respect it thinks it deserves. That aside, keep up the good work lad!
The viaduct at the beginning of this clip was going to be an embankment. However, after 2 years throwing material onto the site which just spread and refused to rise into said embankment they said something like "Sod it!" and built the viaduct instead. Another interesting fact is that the railway cottages nearby got all their water from a well under the viaduct right up to the 60's I believe.
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Would be GREAT for them to get it ALL THE WAY from Garsdale, through to Northallerton.!😁!.
Imagine all the different routes that excursion trains could take then.!🤯!. Plus, what it would do for tourism at all the little villages en-route. Keeping lord knows how many cars off the lanes.
LOVE THE VIDS Gordon.
KEEP'EM COMING
RICH. 🥰🥰🥰.
Just found this site. Great story, Camera work and Scenery.
Can't help thinking that all Disused lines, should become Public Right of Way. Regardless of who owns the land now. Royalty, Lords, Rich Land owners or Just New Monied Plonkers who think the have the Right to Restrict such Beauty to the Average Plebeian.
Who likes to go for a Walk on their Day off..!!
Anyway 'Trumpet Blown.!'
Great work. Thanx for your efforts in Sharing with us all.
You just got a New Subscriber.
Cheers kim in Oz. 😎
What a great video Nodrog you said something there about a test train I have always wondered how they worked maybe they would let you do a video on them one day would be so cool
A beautiful video Gordon. Such a lovely part of Yorkshire
Another great video! These yorkshire / cumbria railways are some of the best scenic routes around!
Great video full of useful information. Thanks for making.
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Inviting in the middle of summer on a coast to coast walk.!🥰🥰!.
Just short of a rope swing.!🤣!.
God's own county makes beautiful viewing. Thank you once again Gordon ❤️🙌
Just found your channel and I've subscribed!
The Settle & Carlisle has 2 seasons - 5 months of "Winter" & 7 months of "Bad Weather". You got a reasonably dry day though! The navvies who built those lines must've been hardy souls.
excellent video again thankyou very much gordon its about time you got yourself on tv take care and keep safe.
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GREAT efx.!🧐!.
Accidental, but... GREAT nonetheless.!🤣!.
LOVE THE VIDS
KEEP'EM COMING
RICH. 🥰🥰🥰.
Great explore on a little known stretch of railway, the tunnel needs some serious grouting and structural work.
Brought back memories of walking that line 45 years ago. No private land then so walked the whole length apart from a few hundred yards before the station.
Thanks for making the film
Thank you for watching 🙏
So glad to have subscribed to your channel great weather vids
Excellent video Gordon.
Would you believe that the line went all the way to Northallerton. The section between Garsdale and Hawes was built by the Midland Railway and the rest by built by the NER. The station at Hawes is still there. Don't forget the line from Redmire to Northallerton is still there and is open as the Wensleydale Railway with services running between Redmire and Leeming Bar. MIght I add when they do reopen it'll be with PACER'S!!!! After the line closed to passengers. The line was kept open for freight to Redmire and if I'm right. The MOD took over the branch to run so they could take tanks by rail to and from the near by Catterick Garrison. Which leads to the unusual sight of tanks using the normal roads which have been strengthened for that reason. As passengers services went. The NER/LNER operated along the whole route but, the MR/LMS only ever operated a shuttle type service between Hawes and Garsdale. With the Governments ideas of reopening lines. This is one line that has been included in the list. The former turntable from Garsdale is now at Keighley on the KWVR
This is my favourite station because of the link via the little white bus to hawes, hopefully one day the branch line will be reopened.
What can I say that hasn't been said by other posters! Just brilliant, I look forward to the next one, great choice of music too.
Great video again Gordon. Your videos are getting better and better!
I love to see abandoned railways, and even better, ones that will hopefully be restored.
I've been around that area as a coach driver and into Hawes station.
Keep your abandoned railways videos coming, they are so well made.
Great video and a great place to visit. The tunnel is called Mossdale Head Tunnel
Thanks for the info! Much appreciated.
A most enjoyable video. Thank you for all that you do.
Thanks for watching!
Brilliant video with professional production values, demonstrating your mastery of the craft. You've achieved a broadcast quality documentary with this one. Well done, mate!
Great vlog.The reconnection to the Wensleydale line seems a no brainer to me.If governments and councils are serious about lowering emissions and cutting down on car use then connecting up this West, East link should be high on their list of priorities.I believe there is a locally run bus service, provided I think by volunteers, but I'm not sure if it runs all year.
Stunning shots with the drone. Really makes a difference!
Fantastic filming and very informative job well done
It's fascinating looking at the cottages built by the Midland Railway to house the workers during the construction. Communities like Selside and Garsdale, still have those same cottages today
nice work Gordon #thumbsup
The old turntable is now at Keighley on the worth Valley railway, there is /was talk a while ago that someone one was planning to reopen the garsdale to Hawes section, a rumor was it was/is David Smith of West Coast railway fame, don't know if it's true or not, but I really hope that it will be reopened through out from Northallerton to garsdale, but yeah that tunnel is going to need some serious work done on it
Brilliant video. :) Loved the mention of the real life Tenders and Turntables incident. :) I do hope that the Wensleydale project is completed one day. :)
Was at garsdale today........the old turntable is still there.......I’ll get a pic next time, always up there and dent sorting earthwork issues
This is a highly addictive video! What stunning scenery! 👌
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another really underrated video Gordon 👍..the way you put them together could rival any program maker...informative and very enjoyable 😊they just keep getting better and better
Excellent video! Hoped you bought some really good Wensleydale cheese at Hawes Dairy! Goes well with Black Sheep.
I think Garsdale was formerly known as Hawes Junction. The last thing I heard, some years ago, was that there was an ongoing movement to reopen the line through the tunnel to Hawes.
Many thanks Nodrog, that's Yorkshire, nothing like it lad!
Great countryside and fab chippy at Hawes! 🥳👍
@@nodrog And Wensleydale cheese (the real stuff) comes from there.
Amazing discovery I never knew about the line what lovely scenery,good video.
Such a incredible and moving video. Such a shame that that many of the railways lines have been closed and lifted and some being preserved as heritage railways, bridleways and some that are to be reopened. And that viaduct is breathtaking.
awsome video nodrog
The story of Ruswarp and his master is an emotional one .:-) x
I know. How sweet! Glad he’s at the station ‘on show’. There’s details of the event in the waiting room 🐕
Just stumbled across your channel and have subscribed. It’s a very good informative video, like your filming and presenting style. Might be worth investing in a hard hat for venturing into those tunnels 😉 Cheers Gary
That's such a shame about the partial collapse. I remember looking at some pictures of this tunnel from an urban explorer about 10 years ago and they mentioned there was a bulge in one of the walls. I wonder if it was where it has now collapsed.
Interesting video. Recently the Yorkshire Dales national park have been looking at creating a multi-user cycle path along that line from Hawes to Garsdale :)
The viaduct is more usually known as Dandry Mire Viaduct (pronounced Dandri Myr). The tunnel just north of it, and the pub close by are called Moorcock, after the bird.
With ref to the earlier post, the pit for the turntable at Garsdale is still there, but the mechanism and table are now at Keighley.
Some really great architecture here and some great countryside. Shame about the tunnel, I admit I stay above ground for mine 😁
Amazing video thanks 👍
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That tree isn't doing it any favours eh.!🧐!---😁.
wow fantastic vid gordon
Pity about the tunnel - Keep safe 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Fabulous video, thank you for making it.
My pleasure buddy. Thanks for watching.
Hi. Particularly nice presentation this one, (they are all good of course)! Just wondered if you have remotely operated cameras when setting up a shot, driving/walking away, driving/walking back into the take as it were or just leave camera running? Needless to say the editing is obviously a job in itself which helps this observer appreciate your dedication and skills. Thanks for being there.
Gordon, you have done it again !! I always look across to the Hawes branch track bed when driving the S and C and can see to a bit beyond the first underbridge out from Garsdale but now I know what is beyond that when the route goes out of view from my cab. Thanks mate, for sharing yet another great video !!
My pleasure buddy. Thank you for watching.
Great video - enjoyed that. That hill didn't look very high - wouldn't it have been simpler to put a cutting through it rather than a dodgy tunnel?
Thanks - Must admit I thought the same - the rock must be solid.
@@nodrogWhen the Midland Railway built Risehill Tunnel north of Dent Station they had to use tons of dynamite to get through the solid rock and even in 1874 it cost fifteen pounds per FOOT to construct it!.
I was first introduced to the Hawes Branch on the game Trainz 2006 and its was a nice little branch line. It would be nice if it could become a preserved line that could travel between Hawes and Garsdale. Petty about that tunnel.
Excellent!!!
Lovely country and a lovely relaxing video but you got the tunnel name wrong for it's not Moorcroft Tunnel but Mossdale Head Tunnel and it's 245 yards long and the last train ran through it on the 16th march 1959. Although as you rightly pointed out it is indeed used to store farm machinery but it hasn't been maintained since March 1959 and ground movement is now destroying it. If the Wensleydale Railway find the cost of repairs to the tunnel too prohibitive in their future extension to Garsdale then it maybe cheaper to open the tunnel out into a cutting as the crown of the tunnel is slowly being forced up due to ground pressures and there's very little ground above the tunnel. It makes me think it may have been built at the insistence of a landowner as often tunnels like Mossdale Head had to be built because a landowner didn't want the trains spoiling his view.
I drive this in Trainz simulator all the time, I thought it was a fictional place. In the game it’s called hawes junction
it looks like the stones were locally sourced and made to measure by the ones seen in the waterfall.
That shot that starts at 11:20was so professionally done - what drone do you use Gordon?
Thank you. Yes I was quite chuffed with the result. It’s a DJI Mavic Mini.
@@nodrog thank for taking us along for the journey - the drone footage was very well done
Absolutely wonderful video, but you seem to be stuck on episode 22!!! 😉
Can't wait for episode 23 or will it be 24?!!! Just found the channel, instantly subscribed and can't wait for more!!!
Think a hard hat would have been in order in the tunnel, good video.
This needs reopening back to Redmire tyo restore an east-west connection. Big lottery win project for me!
Sad to say that the Wensleydale Upper Restoration of the line from Garsdale to Hawes and possibly onto Askrigg has been blocked by the Yorkshire Dales National Park support for turning the trackbed into a Bridle Path.
So again no benefit for tourists, locals and giving an option to get cars off the roads.
Considering that regular direct trains from south of Manchester to Ribblehead are now running, it really does seem a waste
Good details here. Thank s for adding.
Dandry Mire Viaduct
Find this interesting given nearest to seen this was in a virtual setting on a virtual railway simulation
I'm late to the party on this one but a lovely video nevertheless.
Much appreciated buddy.
You could of got the train to Garsdale ....
Apologies that should have been 'nowt like it lad!'
Mossdale tunnel - you're confusing it with Moorcock tunnel which is on the main line just north of Garsdale
Think I’ve got that now. Cheers. Too many names to remember 😬
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