Had a nice rise out on my new bike on Tuesday. I have not had time until now to post a few pictures. I ended up on the Rochdale canal at Middleton Junction heading to Littleborough, Hebdon, onto Brighouse then at SalterHebble Locks changing direction towards Huddersfield and onto Marsden to catch the train to Ashton and home. Total miles. 63. Was a great day with some fantastic scenery. I was intrigued to see the Huddersfield Narrow canal looking very dry in a few parts near to Huddersfield for no apparent reason.Apart from that not much going on at work. I see First have won the 41 service full time. Stagecoach have the 342 service for the next 3 years? and Bluebird have won the 395/6 service. Nothing spectacular but there you go. The weather has been great this week and i'm a little sad to see it cool down as it has but i'm sure it will be back soon enough.
I sometimes run the canal from Marsden to Huddersfield and back again
ReplyDeletethey are restoring the canal in Huddersfield back to how it use to be at longroyd bridge as in removing the tunnel and putting lock 3 back where it was before the canal was abannoned as sellers have moved sites
ReplyDeleteI've fished quite a few sections of canal from Rochdale to Todmorden in past years. There's some really beautiful sections along the way. The top two photos especially, have got me reminiscing. Think I'll have to dig my fishing gear out this year and join "Tod Anglers" again ....lol....
ReplyDeletelovely part of canal down that area walked it had hebden bridge caught the 590 bus when Todmordon bus depot had the F156-175 XYG batch great buses and route also remember Oldham based 5301/7/13 used on the route they had WY in green on the clipper card machines
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To be honest, if Todmorden and Sowerby bridge were closer to my depot, I'd move there without any hesitation. My Mum, when she retired moved to Tod and my sister got a job in Hebden bridge, so moved to Sowerby. Both of them were born and bred in Rochdale, but say they could never come back here now. I love going over to visit them, the scenery is incredible. I've had many lovely walks along the canal with family, it's a great place to live. :-)
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