The story of the syphon tunnel.

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In this video we walked for miles across the moors to find the lost syphon tunnel. I say lost because its hard to find. This tunnel contains an inverted syphon. Between 1907 and 1912 in the Edwardian period. A massive civil engineering task was undertaken to build reservoirs in the Pennine hills in Saddleworth near Oldham. The reservoirs were for drinking water for the nearby industrial towns that were booming during the Industrial revolution. The nearby Chew reservoir was a huge engineering project high up in the Pennine hills. It utilised a light rail, narrow gauge industrial railway to get equipment up to the hills and also an Incline plane to cable hoist wagons up a steep section.The narrow gauge railway also employed six steam locomotives. Thousands of tonnes of clay were brought from the nearby town of Micklehurst for the dam on the reservoir. This video is a story of victorian civil engineering and the quest to provide clean fresh drinking water to victorian towns in England.

Видео The story of the syphon tunnel. канала Martin Zero