Redbrook pumping station marsden moor , left just a bit open
Redbrook pumping station Marsden moor
redbrook video
https://youtu.be/a_MifcIPCvc
Moors pump house explore is what today we explore the 1794 beginnings air shafts Redbrook Standedge tunnel that's a hidden tunnel under the moors well actually 4 parallel tunnels each 3.5 miles each its the Standedge tunnel canal and railway link, In this starter to the the series of about 4 ? we look at some of above ground works and a view of 500 ft down one of the air vents. High peak explore @richie wellock
mentioned in video Thomas Telford and Martin of Youtube channel Martin zero links below.
mentioned in video @martin Zero playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfn3jiFPurawB6063jZ-Zv5xjDESO6-ZW
this playlist starts with Martin zero visiting Redbrook
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3fqrmSkFjmkGGBPkoBO1GQ
work commenced after the cannal act and that tunnel under the moors act began By mid 1799, 1,000 yards (910 m) of the tunnel had been finished and 1,000 yards (910 m) had been excavated, but not completed. In October 1800, the Peak Forest Canal Company, who were keen to trade, suggested a tram road should be built to bypass the tunnel until it was completed but no action was taken. The next tunnel contract failed to attract any takers and canal engineer John Varley, who had repaired parts of the canal which had been damaged by floods, was invited to work on the tunnel. Soon thereafter, mine owner Matthew Fletcher was asked for his opinion; he suggested that time could be saved by tunnelling in both directions from Redbrook pit, which was kept dry by a large steam engine. He estimated that it would cost £8,000 but a contractor could not be found and tunnelling continued from both ends.[7]
In 1801, Outram resigned after work had stopped for a lengthy period.[8] Brown was dismissed.[4] In late 1804, a sub-committee visited Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal, Butterley Tunnel on the Cromford Canal and the Norwood Tunnel on the Chesterfield Canal. It recommended that a towing path should be built through the tunnel but the extra cost and delay were not affordable. Desperately short of money, the canal company obtained a new Act of Parliament in 1806 to raise additional finance and allow an extra toll for using the tunnel. In 1807, Thomas Telford was asked for his advice. He produced a plan, which was followed until the work was completed.
On 9 June 1809, both ends of the tunnel met.[4] On 26 March 1811, the tunnel was complete and a grand opening ceremony was held on 4 April; a party of invited guests, followed by several working boats, entered the tunnel at Diggle and completed the journey to Marsden in one hour and forty minutes. The tunnel had cost £160,000, making it the most expensive canal tunnel to have been built in Britain.[9] It was also the longest, deepest and highest. The tunnel was 5,445 yards (4,979 m) long,[2] 636 feet (194 m) underground at its deepest point, and 643 feet (196 m) above sea level. It was extended at the Marsden end in 1822 by 11 yards (10 m) when Tunnel End Reservoir's overflow was diverted over the tunnel mouth.[10] The tunnel was also extended at the Diggle end in 1893 by 242 yards (221 m) to accommodate the 1894 rail tunnel.[1] The extensions made the tunnel 5,698 yards (5,210 m) long.[1] A survey carried out before restoration using a modern measuring system gave the length as 5,675 yards (5,189 m) which is the accepted figure.
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