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tarkovsky

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Solo drain tourism!

Transporter is a culverted section of Batley Beck (also known as Dewsbury Beck on older maps) that outfalls into the River Calder. This Dewsbury section of the beck was definitely culverted pre-1888, as that's the oldest map I could find of the area, and the beck was still (in)visible in the same places. Beyond that, and the fact that it floods sometimes, that's all I've got I'm afraid. People don't seem to care much for curating the history of culverts, it seems (except for on here obviously)...

This visit was done whilst passing through the area. I dropped in upstream and walked to the outfall, taking pictures on my way back. There's not very much in the way of transitions or features here, but the stonework is good and it gets a thumbs up for being a good wander.

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The outfall was the deepest section of the whole thing, didn’t bother poking my head outside as it wasn’t worth the dunking, having stayed dry for the whole of the downstream walk.

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Heading upstream, brick reenforced with concrete at the sides.

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Bit of spraycrete reenforcement...

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This was the largest section I think, in height and in width. No stooping necessary on this whole thing, which makes a change...

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The split to the left has been blocked off at some point.

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Shadders...

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Might’ve been tempted to head down the sidepipe if I wasn’t on my own, and if I hadn’t already had enough by now...

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After a short open section the culvert continues...

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And back out...

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Futher upstream is the Batley section, called 'Monument'. I'll deal with that one in another thread, at some point.​
 
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tallginge

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Nice one mate, looks well worth a visit! I'd be interested in seeing the machinery that re-lines the inverts/sides of culverts like this and others - it's surely not shuttered and poured it'd take ages. So did it used to split somewhere then or did another brook/ sewer once join but then got diverted and bricked up? Split sections have two ends - that stuff bugs me, man! All good stuff anyway. Looking forward to yer monument thread as well - another one i've not seen before :thumb
 

Ojay

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Yeah we did monument the same night back in the day, I did end up with shiteye and needing A&E lol, not good, managed to somehow rub poo in my eye from CSO, clever eh :rolleyes:
 

tarkovsky

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Nice one mate, looks well worth a visit! I'd be interested in seeing the machinery that re-lines the inverts/sides of culverts like this and others - it's surely not shuttered and poured it'd take ages. So did it used to split somewhere then or did another brook/ sewer once join but then got diverted and bricked up? Split sections have two ends - that stuff bugs me, man! All good stuff anyway. Looking forward to yer monument thread as well - another one i've not seen before :thumb

Cheers. Yeah, I’ve no idea on the machines or the split question! When I was looking at the maps there’s no obvious sign of any other waterways going nearby, but then it could just be that they’d been culverted already. It feels more likely that it might have been sewer related, flowing straight into the brook but then blocked off in more recent times as that sort of business became less environmentally acceptable. But your guess is as good as mine to be honest. Monument further upstream has a stinking sewer overflow split so it also adds credence to that possibility I guess.

As we know, the history of this kind of work isn’t well documented and it’s only usually the work of people on here that manages to unearth the history - couldn’t find any old pics or anything in this case, but then I’m less aware of the sources of info than I am in Sheff I guess...
 

tarkovsky

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Yeah we did monument the same night back in the day, I did end up with shiteye and needing A&E lol, not good, managed to somehow rub poo in my eye from CSO, clever eh :rolleyes:

Haha! Yeah I remember reading the shiteye report - something I hope to avoid!
 

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