The Lost Belah Viaduct | What Remains?

[@ericgeorge5483]

Fascinating stuff. What annoys me is how many tourists would have loved walking across that spectacular viaduct today. Demolition was nothing short of an act of vandalism really.

[@AdventureMe]

Yeah it would have been a great attraction

[@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF]

Great stuff Darren, a brilliant stitching in of the old photo's too.

[@Bobrogers99]

I particularly admire the beautiful stonework of these viaducts. They were practical, functional structures, but they were constructed with such skill and artistry! And to think that they were built using only primitive machines and sheer muscle power! I hope they are maintained well so they can be appreciated by coming generations.

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Oh wow. Nice work putting the Bellah viaduct. It’s so sad these railways were removed. The cost and energy put into building these railways only to close them only 100 years later.

[@deanbrown29]

Mate that was a editing master class, you've really grown in quality as a youtuber! Thanks

[@AdventureMe]

Wow, thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@stannisb7693]

Darren your photo fades are amazing !!! I have enjoyed your other videos as well, Leeds new line, Beeston branch and Blackpool Central you really being the past to life.

[@AdventureMe]

Awesome, thank you!

[@BegudMaximan-zp2tc]

You saved me a trip up hill and down to see the location of the mighty Belah Viaduct! Well done to you for the video capturing the scene. Comparing Ribblehead Viaduct, I think Belah was the next best thing, for their remoteness and sheer engineering skill to erect those high structures was a work of art and hard graft to make a way for the railway to pass through extreme terrain as they do.

[@MerseyShire_Guy]

Thanks guys, another great video. Image overlays are brilliant, helps massively with the visualisation, keep ‘em coming 👍🏻

[@aA-ye1cf]

The pit in front of the site of the signal box was the space for the signal rods to connect to the base of the signal lever frame. It would have been at the bottom of the front wall of the box. Great program!

[@WmDavidHarrison]

Another superb vlog. Your "past on present" overlays are brilliant. Interesting how, in a remote location, the past is not so easily obscured by redevelopent as it is in urban locations, and even brambles and ivy struggle up there too. The decay is largely brought about by the harsh weather. Keep up the good work.

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thank you Darren and Martin fir another great video. Cheers mates.

[@bustermustaffa6594]

Love the way you put a picture of old bridge against what remains of the bridge. I think you should keep it up

[@thomasmann9216]

Beautiful scenery. Wonderful to see the remains of the viaduct and the signal box, but sad as well that such beautiful structures are gone.

[@johnlaw3323]

What a team many thanks for making and sharing.

[@HobbiesAndSunshine]

Awesome video Darren, really enjoyed that. It's tragic just how much infrastructure has vanished over the last 60 years.

[@antmerritt]

Ace! Just binged on a double bill of this. So glad you went with our Martin, what a team?! Great content and some brilliant editing I really enjoyed that! 😁👍👊😎

[@AdventureMe]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@DaveinLeeds]

In 1958 the Stainmore line was very busy with the freight trains largely in the hands of BR's most modern locomotives, and the passenger services operated by the latest Diesel Multiple Units. Four years later it was all gone.

[@craigedgar8647]

Excellent video, the overlaying of the old photos made it that much better

[@paulprescott7913]

Fantastic vid Darren, having watched Martin's vid. Yours is another great reflection on these fabulous structures. Loving the way you combined the old and present footage.

[@redhotfunkyblues]

Fascinating account of a brilliant piece of Victorian engineering. Nothing could stop those Victorians! Excellent editing and presentation too.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@chrismccartney8668]

Superb Video very well filmed you have captured the autumn colours and the wild country... Well done both of you....

[@ABlackburn00]

The editing is next level now. Really made the video that much better to view the lay of the land and how the viaduct would have been. Great stuff Darren

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks a ton!

[@nixtax3526]

Brilliant explore cheers guys

[@buildingbuddy1]

Like everyone else says, your photo overlays are an amazing technique to picture the scene. Excellent.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you like them!

[@peteratkinson922]

Wanted to go here for years. Thank you for this informative presentation.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Wedgedoow]

Very good Darren and Martin, love the superimposed visuals. The autumnal colours were superb in the early shots. Thanks for a very entertaining video.

[@bobingram6912]

Nicely Darren, cracking overlays as usual, really shows it as it was👍🏻👍🏻 Wasn't expecting to see what looks like a ricketty construction as all the rest of them up there are stone.

[@craigstringwell6058]

Great video Darren, adding the old photos in was brilliant 👍🏼

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍

[@ALWResearchTeam]

Ah nice video Darren. I used to go to a campsite in Kirkby Stephen that was based on this line. Lovely part of the world. The ‘inspection Pit’ at the signal box base was for the lever actuators for the points and cable runners for the signalling.

[@MicraHakkinen]

Just stumbled across this video (thanks YT algorithm!) and wow, amazing scenery, beautiful viaducts, great narration, perfect choice of background music during appropriate scenes, just awesome. And I particularly enjoyed the overlays showing exactly what the Belah viaduct would have looked like had it still been standing today. How you got all the camera angles just right seems like black magic to me, very well done! That's plus one subscriber from the Netherlands :)

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Bart. Plenty more like it on the channel.

[@missmerrily4830]

What a surprise to stop by randomly at your channel and find a very familiar face joining you in your enterprise. And needless to say it turns out that your videos are as informative and interesting as Martin's. The second surprise is that this viaduct was so close to Tebay, somewhere I've stayed on several occasions. I'd have loved to have travelled over it! Anyway, nice work!

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you. I've got quite a few videos with Martin.

[@tinplategeek1058]

When you said Tebay, I was thinking why is he talking about an internet auction site? Took a minute for the penny to drop. Love the use of old photographs overlaid on modern scenes. Really great to visualise what it must have been like.

[@NJBamforth67]

Fantastic Darren and Martin Zero. Enjoyed all of it and you imposing Photos on your film was Brilliant gives you what it was like xx Well done Guys xx

[@roll_credits6136]

I love this new filming style, and how you morph the old photo into the new, it lets me imagine of what it would have been like! More of this please! (Chefs kiss 👨‍🍳👌🏻)

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks mate. I've always done the morphing thing from day one. Just not on every video.

[@DanDruff66]

Well I got there in the end, one off my bucket list. Cheers.

[@mikerogers5043]

Great video Darren. Loved the way you overlayed the old photos to show how it looked.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks 👍 Hopefully see you guys soon with Mr Zero.

[@MartinZero]

Great stuff. Love the way you superimposed the old photo's

[@stephenchild2310]

Thanks for a very well presented video. I've added that spot to my "to visit" list now.

[@MarkJT1000]

Yeah, the old photo overlays really gave you an idea of how it would have looked in real life. LOL at Martin stumbling thru the bog.

[@DanDruff66]

Wonderful video, Thank you. This trip is definitely on my to do list next year.

[@graemehannam3950]

Great video thanks dareen, wow looking at the pictures you put in at belah viaduct that was brilliant, certainly made my Sunday evening better, really enjoyed watching your videos and the details you put in

[@ruthbrierley1798]

This is great!! The overlays are so cool... nice work Darren!!

[@chrismccartney8668]

Superb !!

[@shauntodd7123]

Great trip by you and Martin, Gorgeous scenery too.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Shaun. We had a good day out.

[@davidjohnireland4]

Excellent as usual Darren,You and Martin make great films.

[@AdventureMe]

Many thanks! I have more to come from me and Martin next year.

[@carlwilson1772]

That was superb. Great to see the old pictures. Watched Martins video yesterday. Such an interesting place. What a shame all that infrastructure that so many men sweated and toiled over is now gone.

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks

[@seany84uk]

I never knew about this line until i saw yours and Martins videos. Great stuff!

[@AdventureMe]

Glad to help!

[@fatlad5090]

You should do a video about the Clayton Queensbury and Thornton viaduct it's lovely up there

[@robertwiddasart6947]

Informative little explore and a nice surprise appearance from Mr Zero

[@yorkie2789]

Great stuff guys, what a fantastic place, well worth the walk in, must pay it a visit.

[@1903bretep]

Thanks, a great video, I saw Martins first then came across here to watch yours, you make a good team.

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks and welcome

[@suesmith4366]

Great explore both of you, loved it. Just what I needed to watch today 😎

[@chrisbradley1192]

Hey Darren, the Belah Viaduct features in a 1961 cab ride video called "Ride Over Stainmoor Summit", which came up just now in my recommended videos. Shows the DMU going over the viaduct.

[@chrisgreen3767]

Yes, check it out on Alan Snowdon's channel.

[@rontanser9369]

Lovely video gorgeous countryside and you do make it very interesting and It is always good to see Martin zero

[@Design2winLew]

Just come across this one , must have missed it originally . Very interesting explore with great merging of photographs and film footage . Happy to see something not Leeds related as their is world outside !! All your content is great .

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Lewis.

[@memofromessex]

One of the Google Map reviews for Belah Viaduct is hilarious. Well worth checking out!

[@AdventureMe]

I had to go check them out after you said, they are brilliant.

[@trainsinkansas576]

Awesome video Darren. Say hi to Martin I watch his videos to Meriden, Kansas

[@shaunhanson7227]

Another great video, the overlays really add to it....bet it's not the easiest thing to do 👍👍

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

The depression was inside of the skgnalbox and would have been were the control rods (for the points which switch a train from one line to another) and control wires (for the signals) were connected to the interlocking frame and operating levers, which would have been on the upper floor of the original signal box. The interlocking frame was a mechanical device that prevented conflicting routes from being set, ie to prevent one train being routed to crash with another. The Belah Viaduct was built one pier at a time and took 43 days to build the 8th or central pier from the Barras end. They started at the Barras end and with the use of a crane lowered the components for the first pier to the valley floor. Once the pier was completed the gap was bridged and the crane was then moved to the first pier and the pier building started again. Apparently there were no accidents ts during the construction. The map you've shown is the 1897 edition, the 1912 edition shows the signal box further away from the viaduct (in the position it was seen in). I've no I formation as to why there was the change in position. Belah signalbox only had a 10 lever frame and by 1955, one of the signals was motor driven, due to its distance from the box. The box is too small for 3 full time signalmen to be on duty at the same time. What is more likely there were 3 8-hour shifts Mondsy to Saturday and 2 12-hour shifts on Sundays and Bank Holidays. I do know that one man, G A Bishop worked as fifth man at Belah between 1901 and 1905, he worked 4 hours at Belah and 4 hours at Stainmore each day he was on duty and walked between boxes across the viaduct twice a day. Mr Bishop was such an avid cricket fan that he had an arrangement with one if the guards to bring him his evening paper. On one occasion in 1903 a gust of wind blew the paper out of his hands and into the valley, at the end of his shift he scrambled down into the valley to find the paper, which he did finding out that R E Forster was 287 not out on his Test debut and England had beaten Australia in Sydney.

[@braggelbak]

awesome!

[@grahamcheshire9787]

I think you will find the slightly higher viaduct in Wales was the Crumlin Viaduct near Newport in South East Wales. Unfortunately this has also been demolished but the abutments still remain.

[@clivehayball3782]

I remember travelling over the Crumlin viaduct as a child, on a train from Pontypool Road to Aberdare. Going over the viaduct was scary!

[@kevinparkin5438]

Hi darren like the belah viaduct video but i enjoy your look around leeds old railways more as I can visit them and learn more in other words close up but still looking forward to more best wishes Kevin

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dentdalerail6962]

Great video. The BTF film Snow Drift at Bleath Gill was filmed in 1963 about a mile north of the viaduct and there is a shot of an engine crossing, taken from the footplate.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Sorry "Snow Drift at Bleath Gill" was filmed the late February/early March 1955. The train got stuck on the morning of 24th February and the rescue team didn't arrive for 3 days. Any way the line between Stainmore and Bleath Gil, was lifted on 4th July 1962.

[@dentdalerail6962]

@@neiloflongbeck5705 Sorry ! I have the Stainmore book somewhere, and the video - should have checked date first before posting It is one of my favourite videos but my point was really to highlight the views of the line within it

[@philsmodelrailway232]

Love all your videos about old railway history If you fancy a drive check out what’s left of the old monckton colliery and royston shed in South Yorkshire

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks. Yes I will do someday. Many more to come.

[@CoyoteMTB77]

Just stunning architecture and it’s so nice to see it preserved for all and generations to come. Such a shame nothing is built to last nowadays. I despise modern buildings as they are soulless shells lol

[@kabis4572]

really enjoyed this 😀

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks for the visit

[@SteveW139]

In later years a signal box like this was operated by three men each working an eight hour shift six days a week, with two twelve hour shifts on Sundays, so each man would have had one rest day every three weeks. In earlier times 12 hour shifts were usual, and even 24 hour ones were not uncommon.

[@tomsurbanexplore]

Good video I,ll be watching Martin's view of this video later

[@rechnin6680]

That was pretty cool, looked a nice place a s well.

[@kevincross9206]

The remaining viaducts are special indeed. Quite sure they’ll safely stand for another 100+ years. Can see why Belah was demolished though!

[@AdventureMe]

Thanks Kevin

[@a11csc]

nice one boys

[@evan123455]

Great video again. Thanks.Check out on youtube, a film Snowdrift at Bleath Gill not far from Belah. You'll be glad you weren't there at that time (around Feb 1955)There is a shot of going over a viaduct, not sure which one though.

[@davidwaddington9414]

the snow and the signal box enhancements were awesome, is this not far away from Arnside ?

[@AdventureMe]

Not too far no

[@Shelfandtabletoplayouts00gauge]

Amazing engineering as per Victorian intrepid pioneering etc but I wouldn't fancy the trip over the top of that in a gale! Very professional video Darren, always good to learn something. Me and the kids were up Pen y Ghent last week, blooming freezing too. Take care and good to watch👍

[@AdventureMe]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the nice comments.

[@bryan3550]

Fascinating to see your version of the "Expedition", Darren. Wonderful dissolves! Did you have the old photos with you to match or just wing it? 😎

[@AdventureMe]

I have them in mind sometimes and try get to the rough location to match it, and then sometimes I find a picture and trawl through my footage to make a match as best I can.

[@darylcheshire1618]

When he went up to the signalbox and said “what’s behind this door?” it would crack me up if someone put a plastic sketon there.

[@sarahillingworth2718]

So sorry but I had to laugh at the bit about the nuts being cut lol. Great video 😊

[@AdventureMe]

Trust you lol. We did laugh about it off camera lol

[@sarahillingworth2718]

@@AdventureMe haha

[@mikesaunders4775]

One of the great engineering works of Victorian England, reminiscent of the bridges that span the Arkansas river in Colorado. What a pity it was not preserved.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes, too much lost now.

[@jeffmiller3150]

This has tourist railway written all over it!!

[@AdventureMe]

And there's one further down the same line too. If only..

[@HampshireVideo]

Filmed on the GoPro 9? Beautiful colours.

[@AdventureMe]

Yes GP9. A lot of colour grading afterwards.

[@TheLookOf]

KZbin presented me this video, because I watch Martin Zero's channel. I think I have to subscribe here too...

[@AdventureMe]

Thank you. Welcome aboard

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Rebuild Beulah Viaduct!

[@siennamayh]

Had a feeling it might be somewhere up around Kirby Stephen from the Martin Zero clues. A great area to social distance on a bicycle up around Barras , Tan Hill etc #bleak

[@davidcockayne4502]

Once again great. I forgive you for falling off the "abuttment" wagon for one day. Look forwards to the next

[@AdventureMe]

Abutment wagon?

[@davidcockayne4502]

@@AdventureMe Sorry wasn't trying to be rude or anything. I mentioned your very frequent use of the word during the Morley vid. Then you stopped. Now you slotted in quite a lot during this one. I apologise. Hope no offence was taken.

[@AdventureMe]

No I wasn't offended or anything. I just didn't know what you meant. Now I get you. Yes "abutment" is one of my faves. There wasnt much else to say apart from two "abutments". Lol

[@stationhouse5866]

👍👍👍😊

[@scaleop4]

👍👍👍👌👌👌

[@nigelkthomas9501]

I was expecting some drone footage in this video!

[@AdventureMe]

I didn't own one then. Literally a month later I did.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

@@AdventureMe Ah right.

[@boba2783]

Barnard castle?

[@johntyjp]

What amazing work the stonemasons did under such conditions!! Could that ve been an air raid shelter behind the signal box, it could ve been a target for the Luftwaffer during the War!?🤔

[@Brian-om2hh]

The second K in Kirkby Stephen is silent, as if it were pronounced Kirby.......

[@TheWacoKid1963]

I was just going to say you're too late, Martin Zero was there last week, then up pops martin at 0:26 lol

[@AdventureMe]

He's never far behind.

[@timstephenson4520]

Great videos spoilt by totally irrelevant advert every few minutes. Have watched both videos (Martin Zero) both are equally good

[@AdventureMe]

That's KZbin for you. Glad you enjoyed both videos.

[@Scots_Diesel]

If you don't want adverts on KZbin you could go KZbin premium, more features etc and zero advertising on any video.

[@howardkerr8174]

If nothing else, I feel a bit smug(?) knowing 2 British gentlemen have trouble pronouncing the name of a location in their own country. Why? Because I have done that a few times. I used to live near a town spelled BOLIVAR, and pronounced it Bowl-lee-var. A native of the area didn't know what I was talking about. " We pronounce it Bah-liv-ver. "

[@AdventureMe]

Are you referring to Belah Howard?

[@mattjames6447]

31 grand. Prob cost a couple of billion with the idiots in charge today. Barnard Castle you say... hmm.

[@davidwaddington9414]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYmyk3-YitNlncU&ab_channel=BFI just seen this 60's video and a train runs across the Belah Viaduct, hope it compliments your video, it's about half way through the video and mentions the signal box.

[@tdtvegas]

Deindustrialization is a damn shame..

[@orbitboi63]

Hi. Can you please tell me the piece of music used right at the beginning of this ? Thanks so much.

[@AdventureMe]

It's a KZbin stock song.