Brilliant !! Mushrooms and Tunnels 👌

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, cheers Martin. Culminates a great days explore. Thanks, as always, for your time. Much appreciated.

@juleshathaway3894

5 жыл бұрын

My initial thought as you approached the "fun guy" was that it looked like a model of Buzz Lightyear!!

@invertedshadow1746

5 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick , hey thanks for the video mate i always enjoy watching them. I cant help but think you may need to start bending the rules a bit, i understand why you never jump a fence or cut a padlock ( off camera of course ) etc because you are a respectful person but...... Thats half the fun of exploring and you seem to be missing out on alot? Ive done alot of what you film and the padlocks etc always seem to be removed when i get there.......😉

@connormeechan5784

5 жыл бұрын

Your bloody every where mate😉👌🏻love it as always

@MrDegsy69

5 жыл бұрын

Martin there was some complaints that there was not mushroom in there. They seemed to be funghis anyway! 😂😂😂

You never fail to entertain lol! ...and I could watch Martin 24/7 too. A great combination and a great production. Thank you, all of you. As I've said before on Martin's channel, I'm a retired railwayman (due to ill health) and you (and Martin) take me to places that I would dearly love to go to but cannot physically hope to in what's left of my lifetime. Your videos are the next best thing and for that I say, "Many thanks."

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Cyberdon Blue. Makes it all worth while. 👍👍

Cracking Video.......can you imagine having that at the bottom of your garden.......council or not I would have a steel access door on that in no time!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more Gary.

@whynotagain3639

5 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick Could hold a happy hardcore rave in those tunnels just like they were in the 90's. Lol

WOW! what a great find, loved this weeks vid. Its great to see you with Martin again and hope you get to do more together.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Hayley much appreciated.

I cycled these about 10 years ago - and discovered that I did not, in fact, have good lights. I remember the Oxendon tunnel being noticeably damper than the Kelmarsh tunnel, but it doesn't look like it was as wet during your visit. Nice to see them again!

Brought back many childhood memories of playing in those tunnels in the early sixties just after the lines had been ripped up. It was a mineral railway which started in the quarry where the Tramway Museum is now & transported limestone down to the lime kilns at Ambergate. The line closed in 1960 & remembered it running past our house

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks John. Impressed that quite a few locals have watched this.

Another super video. They have really become such a high quality. Really like the collaboration with Martin Zero.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Certainly makes it worthwhile. Yup Martin is a legend.

*whew*, great shots from inside the tunnel. Yeah, a great production. I, too, would like to say many thanks for all that you do. Much as I would love to go and visit disused stations, I look after my father, so your videos and those from Rediscovering Lost Railways really are the next best thing. So massive 👍👍 to you.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew. Much appreciated. 👍

Hi all, another very interesting video great find, love tunnels and viaducts good to see you all together, thank you Paul Rebecca Martin and Mark take care xx

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Colin. 👍👍

I cannot imagine such history directly below my feet. Great captures and efforts to record it. Cheers...

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Christopher. 👍👍

Another fascinating journey, uncovering unusual pieces of British history! Thank you.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Richard. Glad you enjoyed it.

saturday morning cuppa with paul and bec and martin , no better way to start the weekend , thanks guys , fabulous as always !

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Peter, enjoy that cuppa.

Fantastic video guys great to see Martin in video too. Great combination keep up the great work look forward to future vlogs 👍👍

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Grant.

Awesome! Best tunnel explore yet! I will always feel amazed that engineering works from so long ago still exist. When you see and touch things built by man and understand the effort and thought that went in to them......and then think about how it's been 180 years since. It leaves me in awe. What a great find for you guys. Thanks for making this. Btw, top notch editing on this one. Really racheting up the quality, P&R!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Yankee. This was a really fun explore. Nice and easy to edit! (Ish)

Fantastic as usual, great find of something that would otherwise be unknown about, keep up the good work

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Craig

Watching you and your friends slide into the northern portal of the first tunnel brought on my claustrophobia!!! Thank you for squeezing into places, I couldn't!

What an exciting video. Unbeatable historical content. Fascinatiing facts and information. Brilliant.

You're right. I did find your splendid channel from Martin Zero's splendid channel. And I'm glad I did! Interesting, informative and well made. Too many videos on KZread have very interesting subjects, but the presentation and production are so bad as to make them unwatchable! Great work!

I really do enjoy watching your films

Great video again Paul, Martin, Mark and last but not least, Rebecca. Great teamwork. It reminds me of me and my mates crawling through tunnels from brick kilns to a big chimney in an abandoned brickworks. We used to pretend we were doing the great escape!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha.... Cheers Alistair.

Always great to see Martin Zero...

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed it is.

I walk my dog in this area regularly and love exploring the industrial heritage. This is adjacent to the World Heritage site of Derwent Valley Mills. If you or anyone else reading this is in the area exploring, follow the incline cutting to a point half way down the hill where a footpath crosses the incline. Look a few feet to the right of the incline and there’s still evidence of the end of a piece of rail sticking up! Further down the hill near the fence of the now gasworks is another bricked up portal. The gas works was the site of Stephenson’s original lime kilns and the now lost bed of part of the Cromford Canal. This canal amongst many other uses, was used to transport lime to the nearby Butterley Ironworks that produced the iron arches for St. Pancras Station, London and the Falkirk Wheel.

Wow that was fantastic, pity you couldn’t get in and go thru. Such excitement

superb work,thank you

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Simon.

All this in my local area I must get out more fantastic video thanks for sharing

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Andrew.

As usual an excellent and entertaining video. Well done and thank you.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew. Much appreciated

Super footage, magnificent funky fungi.

Subbed after watching! I did come from Martin's channel. Thanks for sharing your finds. I could never do it myself so because of you guys I can still see it.

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Martin is a gent, glad you are enjoying the channel.

Lovely to video, no jeopardy to be had just a pleasant informative watch.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Owen. 👍

Thank you for this video.I never knew about this despite living locally (Belper).Fascinating stuff.

Wow guys, that 2nd tunnel, it is just incredible. It's amazing how narrow they are compared to things build just years later. Thanks for the video guys, I can't wait for you to be on the former railway behind my house.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Alex. 👍👍

@rockfan3299

3 жыл бұрын

the tramway was a small gauge railway, like the inclines on the High Peak Trail they used the pulleys to get the wagons up and down. I love living here, we have Butterley, Cromford, the High Peak and of course, the Crich Museum and the Tramway all within 10 minutes,

This was totally fantastic, thank you so much

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Linda

Great finds thanks to all of you for making a fantastic video. all the best Eden valley drones UK.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it. 👍

Hi to you both!! Good vid as always!! I did mention it before but the Glenfield tunnel in Leicester was put through and completed in 1832 it is just over a mile long and I was lucky enough to take a tour last week!! George Stephenson was too busy to build it so handed the project to his son Robert, the next tours are in September led by local industrial historians, well worth a visit!!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael. You may well of mentioned it, but it sounds like a very good plan. We've a lot coming up in the next few weeks but if we have time we will get ourselves booked in!

Great video love a good bit of explorering proper caving!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's about as "caving" as I'll get.

Great video, what an amazing tunnel,and beautiful place and houses,can you imagine saying to people you have a 150 year old tunnel at the bottom of your garden 😀👌👍

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Lovely people and they knew there was a tunnel there, but very little about it. Need to buy that house!!

@shaunwest3612

5 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick put in an offer lol,love the videos Paul.

Great Vid guys and what a find. Thanks alot and keep up the great vids.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you John.

Wow! What a great video. A fascinating look at part of Derbyshire's industrial past. I thought I knew that area fairly well but you just knocked me out of my complacency.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Stephen.

Nice video and nice bit of urban, ehhhh..... rural exploring. Thanks for making this one and, whatever you do, stay safe!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Marc. Yup a little of both.

Love the collaboration with MZ, keep it up Whitewick’s looking forward to the next video 👍👍👍

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers John. 👍

In an unlikely way, part of this tramroad is still rideable today. The museum tramway at Crich was built on part of its trackbed, and at least one building from the Stephenson tramway survives within the tramway museum complex at the "Town End" entrance area.

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Christopher, yup we had intended to take a look but sadly we ran out of time here!.

Need to find these old tunnels be a blast

Thankyou for sharing.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sarah. A pleasure.

Great video and many thanks for sharing 🙂🍻👍

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers MrVXR

Fantastic, and great that the locals wanted to help (I’m sure most don’t). If that was at the bottom of my garden I think I’d be making something of it, what a conversation starter “what’s that down the garden?”, “oh it’s just one of George Stephensons tunnels, you know, father of the railways” 😀

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

That's pretty much how it worked lol

Abandoned tunnels love it ..and superb music !

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Merv. 👍👍

Martin's channel brought me here, I'm now a subscriber to your channel too, love your videos.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Andy, welcome abroad.

What a great adventure! I've subscribed to your channel, as I also follow Martin on his channel. What I find amazing is that trams were considered a cheap form of transportation but so often I've seen that the went to great expense to avoid steep hills by digging tunnels and building viaducts and elaborate bridges to cross deep valleys. It's too bad these tram lines were abandoned, we need them today!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

....and quite often it seems for little point. Have a watch of the "Hills Tramroad Video" that we did and you'll see what I mean. Thanks for the subscription.

@bullettube9863

5 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick I just finished watching a BBC special about trams! Similar to the demise of the interurban in America, the bus and auto interests won out. Now our roads and highways are clogged and it takes longer to travel to and from work by car then by tram, in fact in some cities, even during non rush hours, travel time is not greatly improved over pre-super highway days.

Excellent discovery guys - savouring how impressively thst tunnel appears to have survived inside.

heya paul and rebecca , great video as always , wow 2 great finds , cant believe how good the condition was in the first tunnel , more of that please lol , oh and rebecca of course lol :)

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Davie. Yup a great days exploring.

As always. Another great video.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Richard.

Love the old tunnel stuff

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

We do too. 👍👍🚂🚂🛤️🛤️

Fascinating part of the world with lots of transport history. Cromford Canal, C&HP line, Ecclesbourne Valley line, Peak rail, Crich tram museum etc...

@knowlesy3915

4 жыл бұрын

Is a great county. Some of the caves are stunning.

@kevanparker908

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot the Butterley Company they built every thing made of Iron and steel. sadly now gone!

I recently subbed to your channel and I look forward to your uploads. I'm a train driver in america. I love old and abandoned rail lines

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Good to hear from across the water. Check out the back catalogue when you have time. 👍

If you go to the Tramway Museum in Crich you can find a small booklet called "George Stephenson's Crich Railway". It has some great old photos of the tramway when it was in use.

excellent again. thank you

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Keith. 👍👍

amazing find

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Danny. Took some time to locate I can tell you!

Wow, amazing tunnels and the history :)

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Daniel

An absolutely brilliant film, so amazing that our early industrial revolution railway history is still there just hidden by nature. What an amazing soundtrack, who was it?? Truly amazing.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks James. Yes, so much to be explored. I'll dog out the sou d track when I'm later

Love the video and learn alot

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Peter

Awesome Video Great Find !

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers. Glad you enjoyed it and found us!

Loved it, compulsive and immersive. Sad that such impressive engineering feats are almost wilfully ignored.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nick. 👍

I watched Martin's, its only fair I watch yours, and probably more of them. Cheers 👍

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

It would be rude not too... 😁. We split the video in two so please also check out "The Oldest Railway Tunnel in the world" on our channel too.

I went on a school trip to Crich Tramway museum in the very early 90's and we were from North London. Still remember it now, like it was yesterday, nearly 30 years later.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Time certainly flies!

@whynotagain3639

5 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick It most certainly does, we stayed in a hostel in Eyam for a week, the village the bubonic plague started apparently. Toured all around Derbyshire it was a good trip, considering we were comprehensive not private. We normal folk got a proper education back before austerity, we visited Derwent dam, Matlock mining museum, Mam Tor the mile of steps.....

That was really entertaining and those tunnels were amazing to see

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Simon. 👍👍

lol - Martin getting freaked out my mushrooms! What a great find in those people’s garden.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Lol, we were both freaked out about it but Mark kept his cool!

Being originally from Matlock I can only say how grateful I am for you exploring something I have always been interested in, but unable to visit, as I now live in Essex. I always felt that Beeching did the country a serious injustice by closing the route between Matlock and Buxton/Manchester.

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed yes. What an amazing route that would have been even as a heritage line.

Great video again :)

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks David.

So interesting thanks to all concerned, so much history

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Terry.

Another belting upload ,esp' the second tunnel i wager that hole in the face is a cat highway in the evening , please keep them coming folks x

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers. Glad you enjoyed. Cat or Rat?

Brilliant thank you 👍😊

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Jez

Greetings Paul and Rebbeca I love your Railway Archaeology. in old Railway formations.I have just started looking at your website.a resident of victoria australia plenty of Tramways out my front door Jeff Puffingbilly Preservation Society

This operated until the Clean Air Act of 1965 closed the lime kilns at Ambergate. The track was lifted and given to the Talyn Railway in Wales.

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. Never knew that. Thanks for the info Nigel.

Fantastic

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jonathan

Came from Geoff and Vikki. Really interesting stuff.

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeremy. Welcome to the party. We hope you enjoy the channel.

@andygif290368

4 жыл бұрын

same here.

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

@@andygif290368 welcome Good Sir

@jeremywilliams2478

4 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick When I am in the UK I love to potter about old abandoned railways, I didn't realise it was so popular.

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Popular and plenty to cover! 6800 abandoned stations in the UK.

Wouldn't it be great to restore some of these old tunnels for the trains and trams to run through them once again, this is a great video thanks for the upload 👍

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Neil. Most certainly yes.

Wish I had a tunnel like that in my garden,.. amongst being fascinating, it would make an exceptional shed.

What a find!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Stephen. We certainly weren't expecting either!

Great teamwork guys. Brilliant result & thanks for sharing. Do follow Martin too.👍👍

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers David. Much appreciated

Really enjoy these!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad you like them. One a week at the moment.

@OpenRoader

5 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick I love this type of history and add trains to it and I'm in!

great video & u was both spoted on the laytest all the station video :)

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Paul. The photobombed our outro How rude!

Great entertaining vid. I'm glad that Mrs.Whitewick had the good sense not to go scrabbling down holes to get underground "heh,heh!"Great exploring Didnt realise that was Martin [must be the cap].

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, yes much more sensible than us three for sure!

Absolutely brilliant, looks like time has just stood still in both tunnels,if only we had H. G. Wells time machine,thanks all.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha.... Yes indeed.

good video

Brave going in the tunnel

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

We wouldn't have gone in without Martin's assistance

This from a 1841 newspaper may be of interest. Mr. Stephenson's Lime Works at Amber Green.-Mr. Stephenson has now commenced burning lime at these works, and is sending it to the different places adjacent to the North Midland Railway, In the course of a short time it will be conveyed to most of the principal towns in England. The kilns are built in a handsome and substantial form, standing from 30 to 40 feet above the surface of the ground. The limestone is procured from the village of Crich about two or three miles distant from the kilns, A tramway, formed for the purpose. A short distance from Crich the tramway passes through a tunnel between 40 and 60 yards in length, cut through a rock composed of sandstone grit ; a little further on is an inclined plane, which is worked by a wheel, round which passes a wire rope, which lets down six waggons filled with lime stone, and draws up the same number of empty wagons. Nearly adjoining this is another inclined plane, which is uncommonly steep, rising at the rapid rate of one yard in three and a half, and is worked by large drum, round which passes a wire rope; a lever is attached to the drum, by which one man alone is able to regulate the speed of the waggons at pleasure, or stop them altogether. Two full waggons are let down an two empty ones are drawn up at the same time. The full waggons pass over the Cromford canal by a wooden bridge (elevated several feet above the level of the water) to the top of the kilns, These stupendous works when finished, will be of the most extensive character in England, or, we may say, in the whole world. They will, when complete, be able to turn out upwards of 200 tons of lime per day.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic, thank you. What a great find.

wow, i cant believe there stil sleepers in there, amazing!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah quite a surprise find that's for sure.

Always enjoy your videos and particularly these two Crich ones as I often visit my sister and brother-in-law who live there and have walked both the gangway and the tramway, so it was fascinating to see inside the tunnels. Good that you got to pronounce Crich correctly in the end!

Thanks for another great informative video. I really enjoy these tunnel videos and co operation with Martin. What was the song ?.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steven. Can't recall the song, I'll add it to the description when we are back from filming.

I understand the tramway had rails until the museum opened in Crich quarry, and then the rails were removed by a narrow-gauge railway society. When the Tramway Museum were looking at ways to attract visitors I did suggest to them that a tramway ride to and from the Cromford canal would be a major attraction.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

That would be amazing for sure.

I'm glad that you managed to pronounce "Crich" correctly in the end albeit with a few slips on the way- it does not rhyme with "itch". That was a very interesting video-most enjoyable, but could I please suggest that if you are entering tunnels, remember that they are enclosed spaces. Is the air safe to breathe? Do you have enough torches? Helmets? Someone standing by outside? Not being pedantic, but I personally knew people who lost their lives in similar situations. The whole of that area is rich with industrial history but that tunnel was new to me. Well done.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mervyn. This was a tad unexpected on our part. Because it there was a clear opening either end and it wasn't a "mined" tunnel at just 91 yards long we thought that we would be fairly safe. Points taken though 👍

Nice to look at the other tunnel through a hole

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Caroline. Glad you enjoyed it

Great video, just thought I'd tell you about Watnall tunnel as you might find that of interest to explore

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Pray tell more Sir.

Question: Why is this earliest piece of industrial revolution architecture blocked off, overgrown, forgotten? I'd pay good money to get in there, just look at the build quality. The historical significance should not go unnoticed. As usual, if it doesn't make money then we'll just block it up and hope it goes away - wake up some of you, it's just round the corner from a transport museum - deerrrrr!!!! Thanks guys and girl for digging around, great stuff, and Martin has another brush with Mr Stephenson!!! Also thanks to the friendly residents for their info and assistance, at least there are people who take an interest.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bob. Yes, quite a mystery as to why this was hidden away and yet it's a Listed building.

It's pronounced with a hard 'I' by us locals, Cr-eye-ch. Sorry if this has been mentioned before, I haven't read all the comments. Love all your videos, best wishes from Derbyshire.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yup epic fail with regards the Crich saga. Give it 24 hours and there will be plenty of corrections 🙈

You should check out the track bed of the old tramline from Pewfall Old Mine down to the St Helens Canal - Amazon are trying build over located near Liverpool Rd, Pewfall is between Ashton in Makerfield and Haydock. St Helens canal being the oldest canal in England. The mine closed in 1911 the canal was built in 1757 and Amazon just finished building there.

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip Ian. Much appreciated.

Hi Paul and Rebecca flipped over from Martins channel ! but was only there for a cuppa tea, sometimes have one with Geoff and Vicki now hope to get one here occasionally, nice Video , now need to catch up on your others! Greetings from Germany( Oh the Germans make terrible tea;-),,,)

@pwhitewick

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard Julian. Have as much tea as you can consume

@mirage4014

4 жыл бұрын

@@pwhitewick hi thanks Paul i miss my cuppa here in germany the last ten years. Ex northants guy here! So always got plenty wit Martin and Geoff. But more is welcome! Germans do not even make a good dunking biccie 🤔😂 i will catch up on your other vids next few days and when u want a Sauna give me a shout but infra red cabin is much nicer!!!

Hey they some pretty small drones with cameras these days, you could put it thru a small hole like that and fly it further into the tunnel. They are relatively inexpensive. Even if you could not get the drone back thru the hole, you could record the video. Maybe a small RC car with a camera and a thread tied to it would work, but the floor would have to be clear enough.

Tunnels not lost our true history is nice find

Great Watch, Staring Martin Zero Fear, First one in the hole! It was DRY though!

@pwhitewick

5 жыл бұрын

Thank fully, very dry!

@1toppotter987

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair your research is off the scale! Excellent Channel!✔