The two parallel viaducts in Stockport only took about 18 months each to build, with primitive equipment, in 1839- 40 and 1888-89. It's taking contractors some 3 to 4 years (as planned) to replace a 70s-built 100-yard concrete bridge over a motorway in my area.

I like the music. Perfect accompaniment to an interesting video. Keep up the good work.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@simontay4851

2 ай бұрын

Nice music if all i wanted to do was listen to it. Don't need to spend half the video just filming panoramic views of the viaduct with no talking. Come on, Just get to the point. I had to keep FFWing the video 10 seconds.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

These started with mostly just video so I added background music to make more appealing to watch. Recent ones I've found more content to talk about so they've evolved

Very informative video. I hadn’t realised the viaduct was so quite that long. I’m voting for keep the music in. A differentiator and a nice change from lots of the KZread suggested “content” that appears in my feed.

Great vlog many thanks for making and sharing.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Lovely. Keep 'em coming!

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Glad you like it, few more lined up and some ideas for more too

Very good aerial shots with slow panning.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Great, views amazing with the drone.😎

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, yes you get a unique view 😊

Good stuff, will check back as this progresses

It used to have 4 tracks+ over it before it was rastionalised

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes, you could say putting 4 tracks back - they are re-doing what was previously undone!

@simontay4851

2 ай бұрын

Should never have been removed in the first place. Just leave the track in place even if its not used. Its not causing any harm. Why go to effort and expense to deliberately remove them. Good thing the viaduct was widened back in 1880 otherwise this upgrade probably would not have been possible.

Great to see the progress on the upgrade and thanx for your efforts in explaining. Only criticism is the music is too loud and partly overrides the commentary.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try and keep it more background for future videos. I started with mainly just drone footage so it was mostly just the music. But now I've found the network rail documents I can add more context to things theres more commentry.

@simontay4851

2 ай бұрын

And the music bits take too long. Don't need the long sections with no talking. Have the music but keep talking about what is happening. Not a very informative video.

Great stuff! I hope you will be able to return in later times to record the clearing of the deck throughout. I did wonder whether these openings for the roads will include improvements for pedestrians and cyclists. Huddersfield does not look very cycle-friendly at present.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Yes, I plan to visit sites as they progress and look at the changes. Agree that Huddersfield is lacking in good provisions for cyclists

It probably won’t happen but, upgrading the line to Barnsley so direct trains to London via Sheffield from Huddersfield would certainly enhance the status of the station.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Agree, only used that line a couple of times but its a very slow route

@batmankb

2 ай бұрын

@@i_and_g_adventures The "South Yorkshireman" passed through here on the way to London via the Midland Main line around mid 1950's. Last time I went Pacer to Sheffield then cross platform to South Yorkshireman (Inter City 125). Very dull journey.😑

Interesting video. Horrid intrusive music.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

what kind of music would you like to have as background music?

@simontay4851

2 ай бұрын

No music. Just you talking about the viaduct. Wouldn't have had to skip through the music sections with no talking. Just get to the point.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

I don't have enough to talk over the whole video. It's context adding of the area, useful for anyone local or knows the area

I hope the plan to replace the bridge decks over the A641 (in progress in the thumbnail) will leave the beautiful masonry skew arch under the centre two tracks intact.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

I believe so having looked at the plans. I'm looking into a grade ii listed bridge elsewhere on the route near Hudds where this is not the case though.

@johnm2012

2 ай бұрын

@@i_and_g_adventures The subject of a future video, perhaps? Is it a problem of not enough clearance?

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Yep, that's exactly the problem. Insufficient clearance. Looks like the bridge will be partially demolished. Still working on it but definitely a future video

Amazing amount of solar panels on houses and business units. Is there a local grant?

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

I noticed that too, yes I suspect there is some sort of grant for those

3:44 I hope when this section over the road is widened, it is done properly and sympathetically to match the existing brick. Not just a horrible ugly grey concrete slab stuck on top. If a brick arch isn't possible, at least use steel beams. Was this bridge section never widened when the rest of the viaduct was widened in 1880 or was it partially demolished later?

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

The whole viaduct carried 4 tracks previously after 1880. The current widening is for bridge strengthening and re-laying of 2 additional tracks

The Victorians built properly capable railways and British Railways spent time and money reducing what the Victorians built to the point where we now have to pay billions to get back to what teh Victorians built in the first place. I live in rural Suffolk and the ralway line here was dual track all the way through. BR single tracked almost half of it which basically makes the train service hourly which is hardly a service at all. You couldn't make it up.

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Yep, alot of what's happening with transpennine route upgrade is redoing what was there before.

@None-zc5vg

2 ай бұрын

I watched the track-reductions taking place in the early '70s. There were once four tracks from Stalybridge to Leeds via Huddersfield, and the Stockport to Stalybridge route was 4-tracked by the 1890s.

@simontay4851

2 ай бұрын

Even if only 1 track of a double track line is used, just fkn leave the other track alone. Its not causing any harm. Why go to the effort and expense to deliberately remove the track. Leave it alone.

@1chish

2 ай бұрын

@@simontay4851 Exactly my sentiments. Use one line one year and the other the next. Bit of weed spray and no railway rights lost.

Great but ditch the music....very annoying.

Sorry, but I didn't find this very informative, the musak was a pain and what about the legality of flying drones over or near railways?

@i_and_g_adventures

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback