 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm out for a walk in the Warwickshire Countryside. I'm just walking along this country lane and what we're going to do in today's video We're going to go and have a look at the longest cast-iron aqueduct there is and it also happens to go Not only over a railway, but also over a Disused railway so it should be quite exciting. Oh, and we're expecting a steam train. So it's going to be quite a fun video Here it is. That is the Edstone aqueduct You can see it's stretching across the valley takes the strapped upon Avon canal over well There's a river just here on the other side of the road. We'll have a look as soon as this cast bust It's a tributary of the river And then it just takes the canal over the wider valley. So if we have a look here Here's our first bit of water in the video There you go. I can't see this river has a name if you're local and you know do you tell me that It's rather much just a tributary of the river on As we can see the aqueducts fairly obvious not so obvious, but just along here Along is the track bed of the old old sister branch. So a railway line run along there, but it's been closed quite a while now So what we're going to do will go up onto the aqueduct We should be able to see the railway track bed should be a bit more obvious when we're up then as I said There's also a current railway line running underneath it That is the North War actually a line-to-line from Stratford upon Avon up towards Tisley Which does have quite a few steam trains on them on most of them are run by vintage trains today steam train is The railway touring companies Stratford flyer and it's going to be making its return journey back to Manchester expecting to see a flight in five So Under the aqueducts see it above us. We've got to go up Here we go up These steps and then we're going to cross it. So I'm really quite excited It's really quite an interesting thing to do. So there you go stretches across the valley We've now got to walk up all of these steps There we are on top of the steps and here is We can now that way is looking towards Stratford upon Avon and the aqueduct itself Stretches out in front of us. Let's go across it already. You're looking quite exciting because The path dips down to the bottom of the app So you're gonna have the water at a different level. So nearly always when you walk beside canals This is how you walk by canals even on aqueducts Interesting that there's a plaque here from the transport trust the Edstone aqueduct Yes, it said it Opened in 1816 Let's go across the aqueduct It's really quite exciting. It just madly stretches out over the valley There are a couple of other aqueducts on on this canal, but I don't think they're quite as impressive as this look at it now this is Having the water like I say the water is in a trough. So it feels like You know, it feels like I could get a remote control boat and In here, I don't know if you're supposed to well, there's not many barges about so Probably could get away with it whether you're supposed to or not. I don't know but it does sound like fun. It just Feels sort of surreal walking with water at this level next to you It just doesn't sort of feel normal. So that is the road, which we've just walked along beside as I said, there's a river Down there also says stream. It seems to be an unnamed stream down below us now this here When these trees are this is the track bed of the old old sister branch. So that's closed and then Through the trees we can see some rail lines Now as we step out to be above the railway lines, interestingly Gives the impression Well, as you can see the track split Don't think there was ever a station here. I think it's purely the Yeah, you can just see show you this way You can just see There is a brick pillar there. So I just don't like putting a camera too close to the edge because if I drop it I probably won't ever get it back So there is a brick pillar basically right between the two rail lines. So that is why Yeah, we That is why the tracks split slightly Apparently below here. There's a pipe And steam locomotives Used to sometimes take on water from the canal above I don't suppose they still can whether the pipe still there or not It'd be interesting to have seen a cabaret of this line and you might be able to see it but and They used to take water and allegedly A fish once found its way down and into the boiler of the steam locomotives There was that Thomas the tank engine story called Thomas goes fishing where he always said he wanted to go fishing and they The water pump was out of water. So when they were stopped on a viaduct over a river They they used a bucket to get fish and then suddenly Thomas. I remember the lines Thomas felt a pain in his boiler and then they stopped and discovered There were fish blocking the feed pipe and the driver and fireman Had a nice Picnic supper of fish and chips whether that happened here. I don't know but that's possibly where the Revendor We've got the name from right. I'm going to wait here and see this steam train pass through So following the steam train there we have the class 172s always quite novel, isn't it seeing trains Pass underneath water because wherever you go on a train you quite often look down over water But we can't really look up to water but it's just novel seeing trains pass underneath water Up there. There's the junction with the other line the line runs across there To Hatton so the steam train used that line to turn on the Hatton triangle If you want to see the rest of what the steam train was doing today have a look at Lincoln's screen now I was chasing the steam train so I saw it in a few locations We now seem to be we're now going over this driveway And up which is just here I can see a lock further along I believe at the next step product Towards Woodson Whirlburn because it's a great night next railway station that way I don't know if I'm going to do that today spring day see the daffodils All right, let's just look at that looking back such a great view if Maybe one day I could see the steam train here The problem is in the summer all of those trees will be grown up and you wouldn't really see it if they cut all those trees down Um, that would look fantastic. It'd be a really great place to stand here And watch the steam train pass by and you'd actually you know get it going under the water. So that that's all quite exciting and what we got Not sure if that is a footpath One thing is if we go down here Um, we should be able to get a good look at the aqueduct even if I can't go anywhere when I get to So it's fantastic I've been to other aqueducts in the past. Um, one of my favourites the pontisacchi aqueduct I did want to do a video where I walked across that aqueduct and I've never held my camera so hard Did that one so we come down to here and here we are with a fantastic view of the edstone aqueduct I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like share comment and subscribe and from the edstone aqueduct