Leeds/Liverpool Canal

[Hop3y]

Found out today I have a week off work 31st of Jan to the 6th of Feb. I would love to do Burnley to Leeds in this time...

Is weather really a big factor? Obviously would love it to be fine..

 

[ColinJ]

Found out today I have a week off work 31st of Jan to the 6th of Feb. I would love to do Burnley to Leeds in this time...

Is weather really a big factor? Obviously would love it to be fine..

I wouldn't fancy sliding off a frozen towpath into a half-frozen canal and ending up like that fox in Burnley!

If you ride to Leeds and don't fancy the ride back, you could go back on the Blackpool North train from Leeds station which calls in at Burnley Manchester Road. The train journey only takes 1 hour and 6 minutes and costs £13.80 as one ticket but £4.40 + £6.90 = £11.30 if you buy a single to Hebden Bridge and a single from Hebden Bridge to Burnley. You can stay in the same seat on the same train but save £2.50 by buying 2 tickets instead of 1 - stupid bloody rail privatisation!

 

[Hop3y]

I wouldn't fancy sliding off a frozen towpath into a half-frozen canal and ending up like that fox in Burnley!

If you ride to Leeds and don't fancy the ride back, you could go back on the Blackpool North train from Leeds station which calls in at Burnley Manchester Road. The train journey only takes 1 hour and 6 minutes and costs £13.80 as one ticket but £4.40 + £6.90 = £11.30 if you buy a single to Hebden Bridge and a single from Hebden Bridge to Burnley. You can stay in the same seat on the same train but save £2.50 by buying 2 tickets instead of 1 - stupid bloody rail privatisation!

Yeah I've done that plenty of times. Get the train from Todmorden to Leeds for a quarter of the price because you've stepped just over the border.

I could do it the other way round though and go from Leeds to Burnley after getting the train.

I have a week off at the end of Jan so going to do it then!

 

[ColinJ]

I could do it the other way round though and go from Leeds to Burnley after getting the train.

I'd prefer to do it that way round if I was doing it - no hanging about waiting for a train when tired after the ride.

 

[Hop3y]

I'd prefer to do it that way round if I was doing it - no hanging about waiting for a train when tired after the ride.

It does make sense. But my sister is there at uni so could have a bed for the night and do the same the next day.

 

[Hop3y]

We've planned it. 31st of January me and the boys from work are doing Burnley to Leeds. Will be a good laugh and better than going on my own.

For those doing the whole trip they've built a Holiday Inn Express at the top of my road, right on the canal. Rooms from £39 and quite nice.

 

[Hop3y]

So, it's planned. 3 of us from work are doing the journey to Leeds. It's our first proper lengthy ride, but we're fit and we'll easily do it.

What necessities do we need to pack? (apart from the obvious pump/spares/water!)

 

[placidcasual]

So, it's planned. 3 of us from work are doing the journey to Leeds. It's our first proper lengthy ride, but we're fit and we'll easily do it.

What necessities do we need to pack? (apart from the obvious pump/spares/water!)

You'll have to put on how you get on. I intend to get a train to Burnley and cycle back to Leeds.

 

[Hop3y]

You'll have to put on how you get on. I intend to get a train to Burnley and cycle back to Leeds.

Sure pal no worries! When you planning on doing it?

 

[ColinJ]

So, how did it go? Did anybody fall into the canal? Were there any random goose attacks? (We get them on the Rochdale canal towpath near Hebden Bridge!). Did your legs hold up?

 

[jomanava]

I did it in 2006

As far as I remember I took a picture in Leeds of a metal sign with stating the full length, 127 miles, that should be the end of the ride. In Liverpool, since then, it has been extended from the original Stanley Dock to the Albert Dock, although the last bit will have to be on the road.

I did it in 3 days: Liverpool-Wigan, Wigan-Skipton, Skipton-Leeds.

Printing the permit from British Waterways is mandatory, although nobody asked me for the permit, I doubt anybody would, and I doubt if somebody had done it and I had not had it anything else would have happened. On the other side, not all the tow path is theoretically cyclable. The permit does not over the full length and in theory in some areas cycling is not allowed. As before, I doubt anybody would enforce it.

Enjoy.

 

[Hop3y]

So, how did it go? Did anybody fall into the canal? Were there any random goose attacks? (We get them on the Rochdale canal towpath near Hebden Bridge!). Did your legs hold up?

Due to some work commitments I had to postpone it

, I did however manage half of it on Sunday 25 miles there and back. Would be able to do it, planning a weekend in February.

Most of my riding is now on the canal, went past Altham and the tow-path disappeared! Hard work getting through the mud but a real exercise!

 

[ColinJ]

Due to some work commitments I had to postpone it

, I did however manage half of it on Sunday 25 miles there and back. Would be able to do it, planning a weekend in February.

Oh well, better luck next time!

 

[Hop3y]

As previously stated the boys and I are doing Liverpool to Leeds for charity. See my other post here for details. We're starting early from Liverpool and have been donated some hotel rooms in Albert Dock in Liverpool. Where does it start in Liverpool exactly?

 

[vernon]

As previously stated the boys and I are doing Liverpool to Leeds for charity. See my other post here for details. We're starting early from Liverpool and have been donated some hotel rooms in Albert Dock in Liverpool. Where does it start in Liverpool exactly?

According to my Leeds and Liverpool canal map, Brunswick Dock, Toxteth if you want to cycle from the furthest extremity of inland waterway attached to the canal otherwiseit appears to be Vauxhall.