 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the very picturesque village of Karnlok on the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland. This is Karnlok Carver and this is the Karnlok village. What we're going to do in today's video, we're going to go and look for a waterfall called the Cranny Falls and to find that waterfall we're going to explore an old railway line. It's an industrial railway we're going to explore, not a passenger line. The village has never had a civilian railway but it has had an industrial railway or two actually and there's the bridge there. The railway line would have come along around above the harbour so let's go up there onto the bridge and we can explore this. Now as I said there were no civilian railway to the village but there were two railways that would have gone over that bridge so it have actually been dual gauge. One of the railways was free for six gauge, the other one was four for eight and a half, yes four for eight and a half I'm not getting my English and Irish gauges mixed up. It was very rare but not unique but for the island of Ireland it was a four for eight and a half inch gauge railway so basically British standard gauge would have ran over there. That is the London Derry Arms Hotel which is where I am today. Go look here, there's a plaque it does say Karnlok railway and harbour and it was built in 1853 all of this so we're going to go up here and we'll start to have a look. So from here the four for eight and a half inch gauge railway I understand was a gravity work line and that's the one we're going to walk up. It was a 1 in 25 gradient up from the town and the three for six inch gauge railway would have been worked originally by steam and then by diesel so we come to here that level at that point but it's going to go up. We're here above the harbour and there's the coast. We'll go and have a look at the view of the coast because it really is quite spectacular. In fact the whole Northern Irish coast is amazing. It's somewhere everyone should come and see. Obviously further around the coast you've got the Giants causeway as a railway there Giants causeway and bush mills railway which is also worth having a ride on it's another narrow gauge railway and then if you were to keep going around the coast that way follow the road you had to come to Laan and then eventually Belfast so this is the Antrim Coast very very beautiful stretch of British coastline. Now from here you get quite a good view because if you look over there you can see the hills you can see a big scar on the hills. That's some of the quarries which the minerals would have been taken out from but the other railway the narrow gauge one would have run along and off up there and that's the one which was worked by steam. I believe the locomotive they had was called the Otter and she was built in Kilmarnock by Andrew Barclay and so not that far away just across the sea over in Scotland and then she was replaced by diesel. I'm not sure what exact data when all this closed when the railway activity was removed from here there is supposedly an article in the railway magazine in 1954 mentions there still being some rail activity. So you can imagine a dual-gauge track curving off around there into the harbour and then the dual-gauge track would have run over this bridge so we're going to cross the bridge now the bridge we walked over over the main Karnock's main street and the main coastal road around the Antrim Coast. That way and another view that way. This is raining up on the hills. I've come out of that current we're going to get wet but anyway that's all part fun I suppose so we're going to walk. We've got above the rooftops now off the houses of Karnock. Now this must be the second of the bridges there's a parallel road running along here so yeah we are now crossing another bridge over another street this is quite exciting it's a bit like walking like an old city walls you know like in York or Chester but of course it's not this old railway. You can see now the gradient beginning that's interesting there that looks like possibly an old lime kiln. I understand there were lime kilns along here also further up there was one of those industrial cable cars which I think there's only about one left in the UK they were very common around Collieries. I have seen one in operation in Bosnia Herzegovina a few years ago I don't have a video of it but I have seen that was quite fascinating so we're going to continue up here. Now it's going to be a fair walk up to about about a mile I think up to the waterfall so I'm not going to show you all of it. I just want to get to here. I left it somewhere around here I can't be sure the exact location but there was a junction between the two railways. The three from six inch gauge line we've gone that way and the gravity line went straight ahead so we're following the branch. I'll have to find out if there is a path along the other railway because I'd quite like to explore it but I think not today because I think I said well the wind's getting up now it looks like it's about to rain I'm heading off up to a waterfall in the hills. Am I going to be soaked by the time I get there? We'll soon find out. Anyway I'm going to continue on with it upwards. So we're now just leaving the edge of Karn lock behind the edge of the village. You can probably see the gradient that we are you know it wasn't so obvious back there but we are constantly going up and it's a very nice path it looks very easy to you know walk up. I don't know if it's going to be nice all the way up to the waterfall. The waterfall's not going to be right up there on the top of the hill it's going to be somewhere along there. Now as for this junction I'm not sure exactly I'm going to have to one day try and look at some old maps but I've either just passed it I can't see any obvious earthworks but looking that way to where the sea is I would have suggested it was probably back down there somewhere but I will have to if I can ever find out and I know it's a walk worth doing maybe it's a video for another day. Anyway I'm going to continue up this one average of violin 25 gradient to the waterfall. I've now reached the point on the railway where the gradient appears to be you know of one it's not varying it's the one in 25 just continuing nicely up out of Karn lock. As I mentioned this was the railway which was standard gauge four for eight and a half inches. If you want to ride railways of four for eight and a half inches on the island of Ireland there is one big network which you can do that and that is in Dublin the Lewis trams are four for eight and a half inches but other than that all mainline railways are five for three inches and then there's a few narrow gauge railways so let's go and find this waterfall. I'm now just coming to the top of the incline so that's looking back down towards Karn lock interesting narrow gauge rail they're making a sign can't quite work out what it says something about no dogs maybe it was private once so looking down towards Karn lock there's actually a bridge here must have been like a farmer's occupation or bridge we come to here that's about here where the incline would have ended and there'd have been various you know wagon ways bringing the stone from the quarry and then they would have put them on the wagons as the load bones went down there to pull the other ones up so this was as I said the standard gauge line so you can see quarry up ahead of us there but the cranny falls are that way so I think what I'm going to do now I'm not going to be on an old railway we might see some more quarries and and then we'll keep going till we find this waterfall I can hear the sound of water haven't yet reached the falls but I have a nice view out to see over there I'm following this path around here that's sort of the appearance of an old railway but to my knowledge I don't think it is but it could have been maybe like a horsework tramway I'm not entirely sure maybe you know more than I do so if you'd like to comment tell me this is an old railway or some form of wagon way let me know I'll tell you what this reminds me of it reminds me of the peak district and the um old liquor manifold railway I did a video once if you look have a look at this link on screen now and I go and explore Fields Cave and that's above where the liquor manifold railway ran but look there's the river down there it just just reminds me of it has that almost sort of Derbyshire like feeling but it's uh Antrim let's continue that way to find a waterfall let's get more dramatic now I'm really quite excited the path I'm following has very started to rise in gradient a bit but look at that there's one of the old quarries there slightly overgrown but it's massive it it goes yeah uh see if we can have a look it goes right down off down there that's yeah exciting I would quite like to have a look but I don't think I will today now we get to this big gate can we go in to the climbing course maybe it's close well at least I can just walk alongside let's have a look okay maybe I'm not supposed to go in there but because there is literally nothing stopping me let's continue I suppose now this cast as an urban exploration because I'm possibly not supposed to be here but makes it a little more fun it's almost like they put a sign saying not worth and saying please come and have a look I wouldn't be so interested but it's like I feel like yeah it's more fun now this is really exciting just following this ridge so the waterfall's got to be quite soon I can hear the river is quite close now and whether this is all a quarry at this point I'm not entirely sure is this a natural ravine which we're walking in whatever it is it's exciting and um ah yeah there it is I can see the waterfall ahead of us so we're nearly there we're nearly at our destination where we've come all the way up from the village of carlock to the pines and see the water down there and get a little bit muddy but anyway that's all part of the fun it's just round here we should start to see it now following the fence I think they'll probably end in the dead end part so that way I can go there's the ravine down there well look at that that's really impressive and there's a bridge so we can go and get a really nice view of it well when I say a bridge I mean more like up here well technically this is a bridge and then there's more water coming down there and it's just like up here so ends there clearly supposed to have a look at the waterfall this is amazing look at that I really like things like this that's amazing brilliant that's so cool it'd be really quite exciting to go in there I'm not going to because I'm on my own if I was to slip or something I may never be found but it's just exciting so this is the waterfall which we walked up an old railway to and that's looking down I've got all the way back down now go back and I think I'm going to go and have a pint in the londonary alms so from the cranny falls I hope you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment goodbye