 If I was to say, hello, thank you for joining me, I'm at Slaveway today, most people will think, well that's interesting, I wonder what we're going to see in today's video, where's he going to take us? But some people would be screaming at their computer saying, no, it's not Slaveway, it's Sloughit, and those people would be absolutely right, so let's start this video again. Hello, thank you for joining me, I'm at Sloughit today, it's spelt Slaveway but it's pronounced Sloughit. I'm at the railway station on the Trans-Pennine route, that's looking towards Manchester, that way it's looking towards Leeds. It's one of those staggered stations and it's one that's been closed and reopened, it closed in 1968 but it reopened in 1982. What we're going to do in today's video, we're going to go and have a look at the Huddersfield Narrow Canal because about three miles that way is Standedge Tunnel, it's the longest canal tunnel in the UK. I'm going to go down into the town centre, walk along the moors, we'll go and find the tunnel and then we'll come back to here along the canal. Let's go and explore. I'm down in Sloughit town centre and this is the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, I'm looking at it here, it looks very much canal-like but have a look in front of us. That's why it's called the Huddersfield Narrow Canal because it is very, very narrow. It's a bit like the canal equivalent of an arrow gauge railway and that's a parking route. There's a lock just there, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to follow the canal this way. Now the canal has been closed and reopened, I'll get on to that more when we're further up the valley. I'll talk about how the canal was built, how it closed and then it was eventually reopened. The bridge up there is the modern bridge because it was eventually reopened in 2001 all the way through and that bridge there was only built in 2000. So it kind of blended in and just existed the town without the canal. In fact I think there was a bit of a controversy here because they had to fill a load of cherry trees to reopen the canal but that's what happens when you close things that you later wish you hadn't closed. So this bridge here, bridge 44 which we can't walk through but that is, if you have a look on the stone, it says 2000. So what I'm going to do now, I'm just coming up to this bridge here which is over a roundabout. So to go under that I'll have to get in the boat which I'm probably not going to do today. Town centre, I'm going to head up that way to get up onto the hills where we get some views down and then we'll come back along the canal. So the canal goes that way towards Standedstunnel. So here we are, I've come above Sloughy, it's pretty windy so I'm shouting. I really hope you can hear me but basically the town of Sloughy is down there. You might just be able to see a train. I was up there where it's really windy and you can hardly hear me. We've come to this little hamlet here and here is the old school. It's a shame really because it's abandoned and derelict but you never know. I'd like to think someone would buy it and convert it into a house. What we're going to do now, we're going to go down a lane or a track called High Insane and we should get a better view of the valley which Huddersfield narrow canal goes up and so does the railway. And then we'll take you back down to Sloughy. This is Hollins Lane now, a typical country lane. Give you an idea of this little hamlet. So I'm just slightly further down Hollins Lane again. I had to shoot with my fingers. It's windy. The railway runs a little mad and so does the Huddersfield narrow canal. You can see the hill looming ahead, that's what Standedstunnel goes under and that's what we're going to go and have a look at. There's three tunnels or three railway tunnels should I say and one canal tunnel. So when we go up there, the village up there is Marston, we'll be able to see what we can see of them. Just walking past an old farm. One thing I found. If you're out this way and you need to use the toilet, I wouldn't suggest you use this one. It's quite funny that an old toilet's the most. I'm not about to use it but there's a flower pot in there. So yeah, just a bit of an unexpected find. Of course, over there's the valley. You can just see the railway. The train went along. Now you can see it go across. I'm going to continue following this path up towards Marston. Slightly unplanned part of the video. I'm in some abandoned cottages there on the path. There was no fence I was walking. Come upstairs at least stone steps. I'm not going far away from here because as you can see, it's holding the floor. So it's interesting to feature these. Probably these would have been this old farm cottage here. A bit of view across there where the farmer would have lived. This is a stone floor. Come into here. Look at this. It's like an old auger. That's quite exciting. Then go through to here. See the fireplace in the ring. This is a shame really. They're so in the middle of nowhere. How would you get to them? If you come outside, that's the path just down there. I think below. That cottage isn't in quite such good condition. You can see the stairs. Looks like they divided this into two at some point and bricked across. They're still windy out there. Let's go down here back onto the footpath. A few little outbuildings. I reckon they must have kept the animals in these little rooms here. Very small inside. Maybe they didn't. Maybe they're coal storages. Coal storage or something. What's in here? There's another. I don't know perhaps this is where they kept the animals. Looks like a barn. Anyway, I am going to continue down the footpath towards Marston. The wind is still quite strong. This is the B6107. I've come up across the B6107. The village of Marston is down there. I'm going to walk around Marston more. You can see where the reservoir is. This is National Trust Land now. Always nice to go to another National Trust property. I'm going to continue on in this direction. Then we'll make our way down to the village of Marston. I'm now above the town of Marston. You can see the town down there. Stand edge tunnel is that way a little bit. I'm heading this way. There is a reservoir down here. My plan is to follow this path along the edge of the hill. Then I should be able to go down into the town. That way into Marston. We'll have a look around there and then we'll walk up to stand edge tunnel. Right now I'm going to enjoy the view of the countryside and the mills. Here I am. I've come down into Marston now. That's the parish church. I did see the reservoir. I didn't go up to it. It was incredibly windy. I wasn't able to record any footage. I took a couple of pictures. You can see into the reservoir. This bridge takes us over the river Colm. The river Colm is the valley which we've been walking up the side of. The canal and the railway follow back down towards Sloughett. I'm going to go up to station road to the railway station. That's where we'll find the Huddersfield narrow canal. Here I am. I'm at Marston station. This is a funny railway station. You can see there's one platform here. The main platforms are there. The majority of trains passing through here pass through on those platforms. It's a good loop but some passenger trains call here. If you want to catch a train you probably won't ever use this platform. There might be one or two a day to do. If you're a track passenger this is a fairly rare track. The funny thing was I just walked in here and a lady followed me in thinking that I was just catching a train. Then she looked at the dot matrix indicator up there and saw there were no trains due so she left again. She'd have to walk all the way up over the bridge and onto the main part of station. This is the loop platform at Marston. Talking of canals and railways and exciting things we pretty much are back at the Huddersfield narrow canal. You'll almost miss it if you look across there. You can see a pub called the Railway Marston. You might be able to see the Tower of the Paris Church. Well, the canal, believe it or not, is here. Just here, down there. That's the Huddersfield narrow canal. There's something railway to look at up here. If we just walk up here there's a National Trust building which is the old railway good shed. One thing is we'll go and have a look at that and see what there is there because the National Trust as we have already seen in today's walk own quite a lot of the land and look after quite a lot of the land here. There we are. That's the Goods Loop platform. Here is the old railway good shed. I don't know if we can see up here but anything to do with old railways is interesting. When we go up to the standard tunnel I'll show you more, tell you more about what there is. This is basically the office for the area we were having a look at. I'm not entirely sure if we can go in or not but you can see it's an old railway good shed. It looks like it's purely just an office but it's nice that National Trust preserved this piece of old railway good shed. There you go. That's the Marston More good shed building. I'm going to head that way now up to the standard tunnel. I've just come down onto the canal round to the back of that railway good shed. It is just over there. As we head this way towards the end of the walk a few things I want to say about the canal. One is it's called the Hudsville narrow canal. So it's a bit like a narrow gauge railway in canal form. At this point it's fairly usual width of a canal. Two boats could easily pass but it's when we get through the bridges and stuff you can see what I mean by a narrow canal. The funny thing is I say it's like a narrow gauge railway in canal form. The widest boat you can have along here is Seven Foot which ironically is the width of Brunel's broad gauge and then this did join the Hudsville broad canal. So as we come into here we're just right next to the station. You know what I meant to go. When we look down. I was up there. I don't know. So we're coming down here in this narrow narrow bit on a narrow canal. The other thing they've talked about we'll have a look when we get up. There were three tunnels. I'll talk more about tunnels when we get near there or three railway tunnels should I say. One canal tunnel. They talked about four-tracking in an electronic trans-pennyte route and if they did they could have reused those tunnels. Well, where places like Greenfield on the other side of the tunnel I'm not quite sure how they would have fitted four tracks unless they were going to reopen the Mikkelhurst loop which was a loop line which effectively went off this line on the other side of the pennyte or the other side of the tunnel went the other side of the valley. That's probably a video for another day but I just wanted to show you here a lock that's Mars and Station a narrow narrow and deep lock on the Huddersfield narrow canal. I'm going to head that way now up to the Huddersfield tunnel. So here we are walking beside the Huddersfield narrow canal that's the Standedge Tunnel Visitor Centre we're not far from the tunnel now if you have a look here this is the railway line it says canals and rivers trust welcome to Standedge Tunnel if you have a look up there you can just see well should just be able to see the railway tunnel onto the aqueduct which actually carries water well of course it would as an aqueduct what looks like a bridge is carrying water down over the railway line it's from one of the reservoirs to the canal so the canal tunnel opened in 1811 with a help from Thomas Telford but it closed in 1944 but then the Huddersfield narrow canal was restored in 2001 you can here take a pleasure trip into the tunnel to the railway tunnel there's three of them the first one opened in 1848 then the second one single track was also opened in 1871 so two single track tunnels and then finally in 1894 the tunnel we had today was open now if we go along here you can see there's a water side cafe and that's probably where you can get on a boat to go through Standedge Tunnel there's the tunnel so I'm just going to walk well I don't know how far I can actually go on this side I can't go right up to the tunnel I'm going to go as close as I can to show you Standedge Tunnel so this tunnel is on this side I think the railway tunnel actually crosses the canal tunnel underground twice so this tunnel here is the longest, the deepest and highest canal tunnel in the UK of course it's also flat the canal builders did not have the luxury of being able to vary gradients like a railway tunnel would do there's 74 locks on the canal and then this section is flat however I say the railway tunnel had the luxury of not necessarily needing to vary the gradients the railway actually chose to also have a dead level tunnel the reason being it's downhill this way towards Huddersfield the other side is downhill towards Manchester steam locals need water so you either stop for water we take water on the move for a water trough that needs to be level so the one place they had on this whole route where they could have water troughs was inside the tunnel so the tunnel is actually level so both tunnels all tunnels are level we've just got up here and we should see the railway tunnel again so I hope you enjoyed this video I've now got a three and a half mile walk back to sour it along the Huddersfield narrow canal it's been quite exciting I've really enjoyed it from near Standesh Tunnel the railway tunnel and the business center goodbye