 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm just going for a walk by the Langoflin canal now I'm currently in England. This is the Langoflin canal that goes up to Langoflin in Wales It is also known as the Langoflin branch of the Shropshire Union branch now as I say I'm currently in England the reason I say that it's very soon. We're gonna be in Wales We're gonna cross the border from England into Wales and we're gonna do it some some quite exciting way We're gonna do it 70 feet above the river Carriog valley now You're about to you might be able to hear water below you You're gonna see it any second We're just Here's the bank disappearing. You can hear water off it. There must be an overflow from the canal and here In front of us is the Aqueduct the Chirk Aqueduct that takes a 70 foot above the Carriog Valley There's the river down there now if you want you can actually cross the border Higher than 70 feet you can cross it a hundred feet because adjacent to us We have Chirk Railway Viaduct Which is on the railway line that runs from Shrewsbury up towards Wrexham So obviously we're now on the Aqueduct you can see the river Carriog down there I think that's how you pronounce it apologies if I'm not quite pronouncing that right so to about now I'm kind of halfway between England and Wales if you look over there Just say welcome to England and Now if I walk a little bit further We are now above the fields So I think it's fair to say now we must be in Wales so this aqueduct was built by Thomas Telford the foundation stones were laid on the 17th for June 1796 and it was finished in 1801 And it stood on its own dominating the valley for almost 50 years until they then built the railway Which was added in 1848 so then from then on you've had this these two viaducts or one viaducts one aqueduct Together so when you see it from a distance over there you could be mistaken for thinking it's one fancy Structured it incorporates both but it is There's a good 30 odd feet not only height above us, but from here approximately more than 30 feet To the railway aqueduct so We've almost crossed it. I believe there's about ten arches on the aqueduct when we get to the other end I'll stand so you'll be able to get a bit of a view of the aqueduct Looking back now. We have crossed the border and we're in Wales I might catch a train later on over the viaduct and Whether I do it today I don't know but then be quite fun one day to say you've come into Wales on a canal and Gone back on the train and what I should do is I'll do it on a barge one day That'll be really fun to do the border crossing on a barge back on the train. I think today. I'm just gonna stick to walking So we've now come to the other side of the aqueduct if you look as the Abutment curves around you get a really nice view of both the aqueducts and the viaducts. It's a shame a train didn't come along but They're not that frequent on this line It is double track, but I thought we won't wait forever Just in case one we might be waiting for a long time. If you have a look at the aqueduct As you can see they are actually slightly sloped to give it more strength now After the aqueduct is if that wasn't fun enough There's then a tunnel church tunnel. So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna go from 70 foot above ground to I'm not quite sure how many feet below ground we're gonna walk through This incredibly dark looking funnel is actually a boat coming through it. So it might not be quite as dark I haven't quite decided Where I'll talk all the way through or not. I might cut the film and then start again at the end So there here we get quite a nice view you can see the reflection of the viaducts And obviously it's big area here because you can only have one boat on the aqueduct at a time You can only have one boat in the tunnel at a time So we're just approaching the tunnel. It's about a quarter of a mile long. So it's quite long and Might she tell us here. Oh, that's the whip. So it's six foot nine inches church tunnel Not gonna try and pronounce it in Welsh, but that's how it is Let's go through It's got number 23, so whether that means it's tunnel or or it counts as a bridge number 23 I'm not sure if anyone knows do comment and tell me There's also a railway tunnel, but it's much shorter Railway tunnels just next to this one and The only row tunnel only really goes under the road this tunnel though actually goes underneath the railway So when we emerge to land on the other side, we will not only Be somewhere completely different But we will be on the other side of the railway line now It's very narrow in here. I'm glad you can't really see it, but there is a fence And if you go let you look through Tunnel that way you can see the light of the boat I will pause the camera and walk through because not a lot to show you looking about that way you can see the tunnel so I'm gonna pause the camera now, and I'll show you a bit more when we get further down So I'm now approximately Halfway through church tunnel. I'm probably directly below the railway now as I said a moment ago There's a boat coming towards us. Just look at the site. That's making I just passed some other people It's so narrow and you have to duck right down into the corner in fact We can use the light of the boat just to give you an idea just how small the towpath is so if someone came past I had to get right down like this The boat is now pitch black and I cannot see a thing keep walking into the wall so I'll pause the camera again, and I'll talk more when we get to the end I think I underestimated a bit by saying we're halfway through it looks like it goes on forever. So see you at the end So the end of the tunnel finally beckons that was quite and a long and obviously very dark Experience it remind me a bit when I walked through the Chill Compton tunnel in the old Somerset and Dorset Railway But obviously had a lot more room to walk and there was more lights. It wasn't quite as narrow As you get to here give you another idea See just how narrow the towpath is and bear in mind you've got hardly any headroom So obviously you've got the tunnel itself when you come out here. It's almost like you've Come into a different world. Everything seems so bright and You know, it doesn't feel like we're in Wales now It feels like we're on a leafy section of the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire. It's so Different so we've come under the railway to the railway station must be up there somewhere So obviously we will not finish the video without a look at that There's a tunnel behind us So that is what we've come through a quarter of a mile of complete darkness except for when that boat came And it was interesting how once the boat had gone how suddenly pitch black it was there's a bit more same bit of info on the church Tunnel I'm now going to head up the slope Up to the railway station. So we'll have a look at the railway station and I'll tell you about another little Interesting railway that used to run from here. So up we go up the slope and Out of the canal cutting by the way up there is church castle. We're not going to go there today But perhaps at some point next year we were it's a lovely castle. It's national trust. It's got a lovely garden That's one for the summer. So perhaps next year we'll do church castle So here we are now. We're above the mouth of the tunnel and I said we're going to go and have a look at the railway station I'm just going to show you this view Looking along the canals cutting from above the tunnel almost perfect reflection Water is very still today and the setup there is church castle, which we'll do next year Now let's go out here onto the lane And we're going to go look at railway station So we have come I said the line of the tunnel is about that way underneath the railway line So when we get to the railway station, which is just here if we have a look down here You'll see there's What pays to me to use railway indeed it is that is the old glen valley tramway Platform it used to run from here up the valley now It opened in 1873 and it closed in the 1930s I believe from competition for buses the buses used to always run just ahead of The trams or trains. It was like a steam-hauled train, but with tramway like engines So the railway didn't really you know, it couldn't really survive It's unfair, but there is a group out there today who wishes to reopen it and best of luck to them I think it'd be great to see it reopened so you can see where it went it went under that bridge there That's obviously the main line It had gone off In a Turned off that way up the valley. There was also there were various branches to quarries now There's one that would have gone underneath the aqueduct and the viaduct As a good branch, but the passenger trains would have ran You can see up that trap bed Some of the carriages have survived they've ended up at the tunniflin railway and maybe if they ever reopen it They'll come back and get to run here again. I'll just let you see the railway line while we're here So as I said about there being a railway tunnel you can just see the railway tunnel up there Directly on the other side of the railway tunnel is the aqueduct and the viaduct And if we have a look on this side You can see the railway station. It's a bit strange They actually got the footbridge here and the road bridge next to each other And if you wonder why there's loads and loads of people hanging around us because there's a steam train coming through Isn't that a coincidence? I haven't come here under their steam trains coming through So obviously I'm gonna include that in the video before I go so I'll just walk down onto the station platform and We'll finish the video down there There's also a new bridge into last came on last came it was only this footbridge There's now put an accessible one in there's no lifts here, but there's a ramp So the station is now fully accessible which is good. Well, if you have a look over there It says Glen Valley tramway truss restoration in Valley tramway phase one coming here soon So we shall certainly look forward to seeing that. I'm not sure exactly when that's gonna happen But when it does we'll be back So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna hang around at this church railway station And wait for the arrival of the steam train So we're just just gonna walk all the way up here just because we can nice flower that is even a bear Made out of boxed heads. It's not actually boxed heads. It's top hedge. It looks really nice so, yeah Very attractive railway station. And if you wonder what that is, that's the Cronus pan work So they make chipboard so you see a lot of log trains coming. Oh, there is actually a train coming not a steam train. Just stay I nearly say a river trains Wales, but not that anymore. They're transport for Wales one of their class 175 So we'll see that arrive and Then I'm gonna hang around and await the arrival of the steam train So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching and Do please feel free to like comment and subscribe tell your friends tell your grandparents tell anyone else You know, you think might be interested. Thank you for watching