Haddon Tunnel & Rowsley Viaduct on the Midland Railway
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Haddon Tunnel & Rowsley Viaduct on the Midland Railway
In this disused railway explore, we start our day off at the 1,054 yard long Haddon Tunnel between Rowsley & Bakewell on the former Midland Railway. Walking from one end to the other & also a quick visit above too.
Soon after we head off to the nearby viaduct near the former Rowsley Staton, crossing the River Derwent. We also take a look from above with the drone.
#haddontunnel # #tunnel #viaduct Additional Music by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0.
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I remember the line so well. When I was a teenager, my parents took me for a day out at Matlock - but I only wanted to carry on to Manchester! So I did so, through Haddon and all the other tunnels (Dove Holes and Disley were my favourites!) Thanks, Ant. Your video brought back very happy memories. I still say that this marvellous line should be completely reopened.
Another great vid with fantastic music. Agree with another comment in that its VERY Tomb Raider.
Also love how the vehicles drive backwards in that part of the world. 🤭
Great video thank you.
And who noticed the drone footage at Rowsley viaduct was running backwards to begin with? Look at the road traffic! Great video, keep up the good work.
Went round Haddon Hall in 2019 , and cycled the cycle trails all around the area , lots of railway cycle trails & tunnels in Derbyshire. Great area to explore , Hopton Incline , High Peak Trail .etc Went to Middleton Top , Sheep Pasture etc when the track was still there in the 60s .
Thanks for the video.
The drivers have some impressive reversing skills in that neck of the woods!
What an amazing tunnel, I agree, a great place to pitch a tent. Thanks for that, it was a fantastic explore 😀
I'm genuinely considering it 😉
Many memories for me in the late fifties/sixties. I lived in Derby then, we would watch the Palatine coming out of Derby Midland heading up to Manchester Central. Indeed it was a pleasure to travel Midland line through the peak District to Miller's dale, and stand on the station, waiting for the dmu to Buxton. Oh memories
I was born in Luton Town in Bedfordshire and spent much of my youth train spotting and so enjoyed it.
Thanks what a fantastic place the tunnel is out of a fantasy world beautiful. The viaduct is another amazing place to be love to camp on top of it. This has to be one of the best videos that I have seen!!😎🚂🚂🇬🇧
It's lovely isn't it? That open section with the greenery.
Camping on top of a Viaduct how great would that be 😀
Great explore, that’s a really shallow tunnel with some quite extraordinary features. Really enjoyed the trip out👍🏴
Glad you enjoyed it, it's lovely in there. I'd go back again, and i don't usually think like that.
No, understandable, it would be like camping in a bespoke habitat in the open section of the tunnel, almost encompassed entirely in green👍🏴
Well a great big WOW for that video. What a feat of beautiful stone work there was. Just loved the tunnels, the via ducts were lovely too. Thanks so much for taking me along I just loved it
Hello 🙂 It was a long video wasn't it? I loved it in there and would like to go again eventually 😊
I love it when the videos are long. So much more to see. Really loved it
The interesting thing about Haddon Tunnel is that it needn’t be there, it was only built because the landowner insisted as a condition of the railway crossing his land since he didn’t want trains ruining his views! The tunnel is actually very close to the land surface and was mostly constructed as cut and cover.
I'd have loved to have had this line running at the bottom of my garden.... I'd never tunnel it :)
I’ve stayed at Rowsley a few times and was completely unaware of the viaduct. Another cracking explore. You never let us down, thank you 😊
It's kinda hidden unless you go to the campsite next to it, I'm glad I got to it easily enough. Thanks for watching and you're kind words 😀
A great tour, Ant! It’s a shame the railroads do not put these sights to bed. Shameful. 🏴🙂👍🇺🇸
Another great explore and video and I love how the vehicles drive backwards near the viaduct lol 👍
Morning Keith glad you enjoyed it.
The Vans are a Derbyshire thing 🤣
Great interesting film. Was on holiday nearby 4 years ago never realised all this was close by. Rectangular shaped refuges in tunnel intriguing must serve other purpose especially as they are off the ground.
I think from what I've read since they we're the original one's, and the standard refuges we're fitted in later.
It's a lovely little area
Thanks for watching 🙂
Great video, beautiful tunnel but sad to see it abandoned. Imagine the work they've put in building it and it's still standing.
Thanks so much for watching :)
Two wonderful structures, a great bit of exploring, the workmanship is breathtaking especially when you consider how long ago it was completed. I love the plant life that grows in the tunnels, it's very Indiana Jones!!! I see the 'Wild man of the Mountains' enjoyed himself, he's got some guts wandering around in that tunnel in his bare feet. Looking forward to the next video already, cheers.
I couldn't believe he didn't wear any although towards the end he gave in and wore the pair he carried. It's up there with the best I've been inside, that open section is like a lost temple. The Viaduct is hidden and also in a lovely spot
That was awesome, looking back to the building of it, what a task they had. Thank you for sharing, very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it, it could well be my favourite tunnel to date :)
Aaarrggghhh, white van man driving backwards!!!!! So, you're not bothered about pitching your tent where people have died, rather you than me😨🤤 Great tunnel walk, loved the bridge, and the sprinkling of B&Ws is always a bonus 👍❤
Don't worry Bob, it was only 4 men, 1 boy and a horse ! That section was daylighted in 1900 for better ventilation but if memory serves, was not the site of the accident. Also, I have spent the night with dead bodies many times and can confirm they do no harm ! (It was part of my job, if you're wondering.)
@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 Thank you kind sir for the added detail. Still a creepy looking place to be under canvas, think I'd rather be in the tunnel!!! Regards.
It's true about the accident location, i was given duff info. I was told it was ther, then found out it was 1900 after the video had gone live. I did research it before, but didn't pick up on the accident until the day. My ohine had no sugnal, he apparently had signal and confimed it was that location. I have it as happening at the 5th shaft
Another interesting video,Ant,Rowsley looks nice,and i thought the church was lovely,🤗
That church is lovely and I had to include it 😀
Thanks for that Ant, great video and brilliant job of capturing the history of the places as usual.
Morning Paul, cheers for watching and commenting 🙂
This tunnel seems to be cut and cover in the first part. I hope to see this and all the other tunnels along this route welcome trains once more. Sutch a relic from those great forward thinking engineers, this should never have closed.
Superb footage i must say.
Thanks Jon
I hope it opens again, momentum seems to be growing in a positive way 😀😀
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Great explore through the tunnel and despite going to rowsley numerous times I’ve never seen that viaduct loved that video 👍
Thanks Andrew. It Is somewhat hidden and all the times I've been along that road I'd never seen it or knew about it
yeah dont blame you not going to that little building, I didnt have a look when I went to the tunnel. great vid thanks
I don't think My legs would have enjoyed the weeds to that hut. Thank you for watching 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration a week before i did my vid I went to recky it out, had shorts on. bad mistake with them nettles.
Thank you from New Zealand very interesting
My pleasure! Hello to New Zealand :)
Great video Ant, always look forward to them, keep them coming
Thanks so much Martin, they'll keep coming for a while yet :)
great film ant keep them coming
Thanks Jonathan 😊 Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Thats the best rail tunnel I have seen.
It Is rather stunning. I'd go back again I think 😀
Wonderful...
Thank you! Cheers!
Another great video Ant.....weve seen this tunnel before patrick dickinson did an explore but youve done a great job...we hope you get some extra viewers after naming your group in our latest V,log...take care mate Frank & Lee...
Glad you enjoyed it, its up there with the best i've been to if not the best. Thanks for the shout out too, glad you do them still occaionally on Facebook :)
The recesses throughout the tunnel usually on both sides as common practice were for track workers to slip into if a train came while they were working. That way they didn't get hit or have to leave the tunnel. You just slipped in the trains passed and you carried on back to working. One day where all the bricks are falling which is do to water from heavy rain those areas of the tunnel will one day collapse.
By one of those shafts it looks like Hart's-tongue fern growing in the tunnel 07:58 lost garden
Another great video, I love it when you explore a line that I know fairly well, though I've never been on this part of it
Thankyou, i'd never been here before, and so pleased that i did. Its up there with the best i have visited :)
Great vlog with some lovely structures such a shame to see the decay in the tunnel which seems to have got a lot worse since Julia Bradbury did her railway walks series. Loved the way you showed the Rowsley viaduct from all angles. Much enjoyed and appreciated many thanks Ant.
Rowsley Viaduct is one that seems to get little attention or coverage. It's a lovely little spot, and i'm pleased its still around. Thanks for watchingas always :)
Nice interesting video. You are wearing a body warmer and the other man is walking in his bare belly. Funny
That'll be Steve. Often with no shoes on too 😂
Thanks for watching 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration Oke. Nice to see. And also without shoes and that in such places. I will watch your videos more often
160 year old masonry and 50+ years of neglect but still in perfect condition, what a testament to the men who built that railway without the use of machinery. To do that now with cut stone would be cost prohibitive, instead it would be poured concrete.
I am now 69 years young and can remember that you could always see Lupins growing along side the rail tracks. These dwindled over the years to being none existent .
I bet they looked lovely. All taken over with long grass and nettles now :(
New to your channel and this is fantastic! I have a cool disused/abandoned line near me in Pirbright that used to service the barracks.. There’s still parts of the bridge that went from main line over the Basingstoke canal towards the Army training barracks..
Good Morning Nick, pleased to have you here. There's something oddly nice about a disused line 🙂 Especially if it involves a canal too.
Thanks for watching and commenting
Trekking & Towpaths Absolutely love it!
I love railway tunnels even though I've only ever been in one, the Burdale tunnel on the Driffield to Malton line, closed many decades ago. They're not the sort of place I could explore on my own, I have an irrational phobia of them, don't know why but I would be fine if with others, which is always the best thing. A lot of old telephone cables would have probably have hung on those brackets, can't imagine there would have been any signalling cables if there were no junctions nearby.
The only one i have done on my own is Spinkhill in Derbyshire, that was really daunting approaching that! This is probably the best i've done after Mapperley.
I've never been or seen Burdale, i'll have to look it up
I was wondering about the date discrepancy of the drone footage. Obviously flown when the trees had no leaves and before the November 2019 flood debris was cleared away -- BTW the debris is also evident [mostly silage remains in the trees] on your High Tor/Giddy Edge installment.
Haddon Tunnel is cut and cover. It was done because the Duke of Rutland did not want to see or hear the trains from his Haddon Hall estate. The Midland Railway was held up for many years at Rowsley due to the intransigence of the Duke of Devonshire who would not allow the railway to go past Chatsworth House at any cost. New plans and a new government act were needed [plus the agreement that the railway could go past Haddon Hall if covered & out of sight] so that the railway could use the Wye valley to cross the Peak District rather than the much easier Derwent valley. Following the course of the Wye cost them an absolute fortune, and eternal high maintenance costs, for all the bridges and tunnels needed further north. The original route would have needed no tunnels to reach the Hope Valley [River Noe] where it would have left the Derwent valley to follow the approx. route of the present Sheffield to Manchester line with only the major tunnel at Edale required.
Putting the railway back into use is an absolute non-starter. Network Rail [and indeed their predecessors] have carried out either 3 or 4 evaluations as a way to get a third line north to relieve congestion on the present east/west routes. As well as the many millions needed to bring the line to modern standards just on the sections which remain intact, it is estimated a minimum of £500 million would be required to put the section at Rowsley back into use -- even if all the objectors could be satisfied. The present route through the village was put on an a rising embankment [after the shenanigans with the Dukes] to get it high enough to cross the A6 road by bridge, followed by a short embankment [near present campsite] then the viaduct to cross the Derwent. Next is the bridge over Church Lane, then there is a further bridge over a minor lane before it gets to Haddon Tunnel. I could wax lyrical for a few pages describing why the present route CANNOT be re-instated. In fact this HAS been recognised in the surveys and an alternative route suggested to get from Darley Dale to Haddon but it was admitted that in the present environmental climate this would face horrendous objections and be extremely expensive to try to get through the planning process as it involves a lot of green fields being taken
Great video
Thanks for watching 🙂
Cracking video mate. Glad you had some company and good torches when you went inside. Those central drains are lethal! I watched a video by Alan Plumb the other day from a few years ago. Don't know if you've seen it? He was tracing the line from Rowsley to Haddon. He ended up going inside the tunnel without a torch and attempted to make his way to the first shaft but unfortunately plunged down one of the drains, which was full of water. Luckily he was OK, just a little shaken up. And he kept filming! Torches are definitely essential!
I could'nt attempt any without a torch, a good light too. I remember having a look at Mapperley about 12 years ago, thought yeah a phone torch will be fine. Yeah right 😂
I'll have a look for Alans video. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching :)
Me and a mate did the same about 38 years ago.
I didn't realise the people of Matlock were so talented with all that backwards driving. Is it not possible to walk from Haddon to Rowsley Viaduct on the trackbed then?
Really enjoying your videos, I’ve just found them and have subscribed. What’s the music tracks you use in this? I really like the music you’ve chosen.
I love seeing these as I live in Rowsley (by the way it's pronounced Roh-slee like the Row at the start of row boat) Never pronounce it the way it is in this video near locals otherwise they will go mental LOL also random fact my family used to help with maintenance on Katherine church in Rowsley and I believe at 28:43 my dad and grandad built that newish looking shed in the background I could be mistaken and it could be the shed on the other side of the church I just remember its one of them LOL
We have lost so much delibarely in my option
Given what Steve is wearing you do seem a bit overdressed!
Great video - I always thought it was weird that Haddon Tunnel didn't become part of the Monsal Trail.
Oh, Steve returns in a later video lol
Yes it would be nice if it had been used :)
Great video. The line should’ve never been closed.
A few yrs ago when I explored the tunnels I found a pile of empty coloured rifle shells - did you see them??? @2:56 Holding wire??? @20:09 - they must of fixed the hole - b/c the hole was once big enough for me just to fit my mountain bike through!!! @ 20:33 I think that is for holding wires along the edge of the tunnel perhaps???!!!??? 🙂🚂🚂🚂
I've heard stories of individuals being able to climb in that hole to get it, i just managed to get my head through! lol
Thanks for watching
Imagine being just outside the other end of the tunnel exploring when suddenly a random hand holding a camera comes out from a hole in the wall. I think I would end up having a coronary attack. Lmao
Also a face like Jack Nicholson in the Shining? 🤣
Thanks for watching 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration Yeah that would have been the topping on the cake for sure, lol.
The rectangular recesses were to strengthen the wall in the vertical to prevent collapse when the topfill was thrown back in.
Brilliant thank you. I think that's the first explanation I've had 😀 Thank you for watching 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration Only the other day someone asked the same question of another tunnel that was only about 100 yards long but had recesses every few yards. The answer was the same as that was also a "cut and cover" job.
@@angelsone-five7912 it's the first time I'd seen an arrangement like this with two examples side by side all the way through. Thank you 😊
@@angelsone-five7912 My original thought based on no more than observation of the video was that the stone " refuges" in the stone walls of the tunnel were built at time of tunnel construction but were later deemed, either by calamity or observation, not big enough to protect the maintenance gangs from passing trains. The larger refuges (brick in stone) were merely later additions to rectify the problem but I bow to a greater knowledge.
Lovely video, were some of those refuges for tool storage or something like that. Please tell me what the music was, loved it
Another superb video thanks
Does anyone know what the tune is called around the 16 minutes mark?
Went round Rowsley loco shed a few times in the 1960 s , Shame the whole line wasn’t kept. Like your colliery explorations.
Whatever happened to Arthur Scargill ?
did this 1 a few years ago got a little way in and the metal door blew shut scared the crap out of me , did you see the spanner that still hangs on the wall ? probably put there by 1 of the s&t guys when the line was open
It's called 'a covered way' when it is roofed over for aesthetic purposes.
This tunnel wasn't a traditional dug out or blasted tunnel but was in fact a cut and cover construction.
Thats right but still fell in, they are more prone to colapse when cut and cover due to water movement. still a great tunnel but was rather slippy when i did my video.
@@RichieWellock great to see inside it,really interesting 👍
@@richardhaywood4123 totally
Hi what is the tune called please at the start of your Haddon tunnel video. Just as your going into tunnel please
all closed railways should be reopened,
the stone recesses are original, the brick ones being added later
Brilliant thanks for the information 😊👍😀
Perhaps the Health and Safety department decided that the original ones were inadequate for expanding waistlines!
That guy lives in the tunnel?!
Two questions please, why is the crown of the tunnel so shallow appears to be less than 1.5M (54ft) and is this former way subject to the reopening proposal ?
eddo 167, it was a cut and cover job. Dig a big trench in a hurry, build tunnel and cover with soil. As the post above says, the Duke at Haddon Hall didn't want to see smoke and steam billowing from locos a few hundred yards from his front door but happy to sell the land to the railway company for some nice wedge !!
I'd have loved the site of steam in my back garden :)
@@TrekkingExploration Me too ! 😀
We live close to Matlock and can hear the steam trains from Peak Rail. We also have 2 level crossings and a station (Darley Dale) near by.
Structure Reference for Rowsley Viaduct will be AJM2 (for Ambergate Junction to New Mills) then probably structure number 44. AJM2 is the Engineers Line Reference, there is a website that lists them all called railwaycodes.org.uk if unsure. Tunnel was built solely to hide the railway from the Duke of Rutland's view at nearby Haddon Hall.
Thanks for the Viaduct info and the website link :)
Its a lovely little place, as is the tunnel
Thanks for watching :)
Tomb raider
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