An incredible achievement in Railway construction and one of the biggest of its kind in the UK 

Better than the bloody football 👍👌

I came here for a great culvert! And wasn't dissapointed!

I guess they built a huge embankment instead of the more usual viaduct to dispose of the spoil from the tunnel. The early excavators would only deal soft materials - sand, gravel, clay etc. The rocky approach cuttings would have been blasted out first though excavators could have been used to load the wagons. Great video. I used to live in that area & explored around there.

Great culvert. Whoever installed that later concrete conduit obviously had faith in the original construction. It's great the way you paint the picture of the embankment under construction, people had more about them back then. Thanks Steves

Best thing I've watched all week, respect to those navies. Thanks Steve.

Bloody love this video Steve on the engineering is perfect. They never had any digital pissing levels. No laser guided rulers. It blows my mind like you said engineering geniuses.

Great video Steve, I enjoy hearing the wonderment in your voice when you're looking at these things. I've always been impressed by the way our Victorian engineers managed to build our infrastructure almost entirely by hand. Today even with the use of CAD they can't match the ability of those old timers. Like the Tyneside Metro extension to Newcastle Airport where the drains installed weren't large enough to cope with the heavy rain, leaving the station flooded with a train at the platform full of water about a foot deep. The old timers would have had local knowledge enough to know how the beck would rise in a heavy storm and provided a suitable drain! I don't know the embankment you showed but it's really huge by the looks of it and the culvert is a magnificent piece of work, as good today as the day they built it. A shame that it's yet another railway which cost a lot of cash and a lot of effort to build for the benefit of future generations and we as a nation have wasted their work and squandered the future. Keep up the great videos Steve, I think a lot of people are enjoying them.

Great video... my old stomping ground, Pudsey... never even knew this existed. You certainly know your history. Enjoyed the narration.

Great video, love industrial archaeology and your enthusiasm.

I haven't been on that embankment since my teens in the 90s it's an impressive feat of engineering

Fantastic! Clean as a whistle!

The' dunt muck about in Yorksher!!

Should be restored to a tourist railway, what's the delay!!

That was a great post love to have been there with you, the culvert would have been built over a wooden frame, like viaduct arches, then removed, then the embankment soil added to the finished shape. Have you looked at lidar images, there are a few available, they will give a better view of the hugeness of the embankment as it omits the vegetation, I think the side by side Scottish maps have this option. Great stuff you are doing, 👍

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Think that the first mechanical excavators were trialled on the Northern end of the Settle and Carlisle Line in the mid 1870's. They were not a great success but obviously improved with time.

Nice to see the LUFC Masons mark😮 classic 😂