Sherwood Rise Tunnel.. We Got Inside! First look since 1994! **😱WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END! 😱**
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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The History:
Sherwood Rise Tunnel.
Opened: 1898.
Closed: 1968
665 Yards Long.
Many of the tunnels of nottingham were built by three railway companies in and around Nottingham, because their lines crossed substantial hills.
The companies were the Great Northern Railway (GNR), the Great Central Railway (GCR), and the Nottingham Suburban Railway.
The Great Central Railway main line from London Marylebone to Sheffield via Leicester and Nottingham was the last trunk route to be completed in 1898 and the first to close in 1968.
The first coal trains ran between London and Sheffield in 1898, and passenger travel followed in March 1899.
After passing through a deep cutting in the sandstone south of New Basford station, southbound trains entered the Sherwood Rise Tunnel.
Which measured an impressive 665 Yards in length with a maximum depth of 120 feet from surface to rail level.
Sherwood Rise Tunnel is constructed with a blue brick lined roof covered heavily in soot, making the tunnel itself appear very dark and great at absorbing the light we threw at it. The sidewalls are mostly cut directly through the Sandstone, however there is sections of the side walls also constructed with brick.
Some refuges are cut out completely in the sandstone with a brick arch above.. Whilst others are solely all brick construction.
There is a couple of considerably larger refuges which we assume will have served as plate layer huts.
There are no air shafts.
The Tunnel is generally in amazing condition, not bulges or collapses apparent.. And is a really dry tunnel for the most part.. There is a small amount of water ingress towards the southern portal (Carrington Station end).
We found a few quite interesting relics inside aside from your usual cable carrying hooks (which there was plenty of present),
We found a signal bracket now on the floor, which after reading the only post I can find online from 1994 it appears it was back then attached to the wall with the signal intact.
We also found a old style Cherry Coke, lemon and lime Fanta, and lager can, unfortunately all too rusted to see any dates.
A pack of 10 superkings,
A packet of No frills dated 1999,
and the most impressive has got to be a Mars bar wrapper dated 27/12/1986..which after 35 years was still in pristine condition.
At the Southern end (Carrington) the cutting has been filled in and the tunnel mouth completely bricked up and buried, there is however a ladder leading up the wall inside the tunnel to a manhole, we assume its potentially a access hatch for inspections.
The Northern end cutting is considerably higher than track level by around 20 feet, and serves now as what seems to be a popular dog walking Area.
The very top of the tunnels Northern portal is still visible however very secure with big metal plates and a brick wall behind preventing any access completely.
After leaving Sherwood Rise Tunnel, steam engine crews had only a 100 yard respite at Carrington before the line entered the sulphurous 1,189 yard Mansfield Road Tunnel, which took trains to Nottingham Victoria station.
North of Nottingham and in the city much of its route has sadly disappeared, embankments flattened, cuttings filled, and viaducts demolished.
Due to being such a built up city nowadays and so many groundwork changes made along the former GCR mainline it is a very hard line to follow today.
The blocking of the railway track bed at three locations, successively in the 1960s, late 1980s and late 2000s, means that a direct route, wide and high enough for a double track railway and therefore feasible as a light railway if not a roadway, lies utterly unusable beneath the congested streets.
At the time of the Beeching cuts, planners and railway managers clearly believed that the Victorian infrastructure they inherited would never be needed again.
It’s a matter of opinion whether this amounted to naivety, stupidity or arrogance.
Thankyou for the company and teamwork on this one TK.
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Bit late but a great video. I'm no expert but looks to be in exceptionally good condition considering it's been abandoned for over 50 years. Thanks a lot.
Brilliant video! I'm from Nottingham, always knew there was tunnels but had never seen them. Thanks. Would love to go there my self
Amazing ti see inside there lovely colour of the bricks too xx
Thank you for the blast from the past with the old cans and packaging, I feel old now though haha
Video appeared on my feed, it's brilliant 👍
Fascinating video, I actually have travelled through this tunnel on a train, I was a small child at the time! Those cables you refer to at 12:15 and several other places are actually old signal wires on pully wheels. The signals were all mechanical with wire runs through the tunnel to work the Distant signals either end.
Hello Maddie wow fantastic video and wow what a great tunnel first time here are you from Nottingham I'm from Nottinghamshire never accessed any of these tunnels xx
Heya, first of all thankyou! I'm in Nottingham yes, done over 90 railways all over tho.. If your in Nottinghamshire, maybe check out nottinghams railways remembered on Facebook, janine is the creator and does tunnels tours every so often, maybe get yourself on one. I'm actually on one tomorrow myself. Xx
Ohh thank you I will check her out on Facebook and looking forward to more on your channel xx
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Ahhh amazing! Thankyou! 🙂
Impressive getting where no one else has been for so long . Fascinating video .
For all the guys who do this sort of video all the same. You have quite a different take on what you see which is really more interesting. Have just subscribed and look forward to your next videos.
I used to go in there around 2000 with all my mates the sherwood rise entrance y
Used to have a hole in that brick wall
I bet the high brackets with the cables attached was for the signalling, nice vid!
Absolutely fascinating, I've seen the buried portal on many videos, but had no idea that you could get inside!!! A brilliant effort, well done.
Way back when king size Mars bars were actually king sized Mars bars
Nice to see you exploring some of these interesting places around Notts. There's lot's underground around here (in Nottinghamshire) that are worth a look. Find the right people and you find quite a few storage tunnels in the City. I had a mate working on some of the city reconstruction and he told me about how many tunnels carved out of the sandstone they found. Archaeologists were photographing the rooms with carved chairs and tables then nearly crying as they were filled in with concrete for office block foundations. Nottingham in the Middle ages I believe was known as the city of caves & there is a description by a French visitor of what he saw somewhere.
Yes! There are so many different tunnels and caves, it's accessing them that proves a issue, I know of quite a few, there's a big cave network down a manhole I've jist got to pick the right time to head down it, there's also a air raid network on a busy road again right time needed, I'd love to get down some.. Really upsetting the fill them in for buildings today 🙄
Talking of blocked up area's somewhere along the Nottm / Worksop rail line they found when building it a cave with the bones of a sabre tooth tiger in it. They blocked that up as they continued and only marked it as "near a tree in a hedge". Most likely that tree and hedge are well gone. Don't think that's well known but it would make sense with the close by ice age caves at Creswell Crags. Also somewhere worth checking out is the Welbeck tunnels, they were acessable a few years ago and Ive seen YT vids on but not been there myself.
Brilliant ! Like you showing the packets etc showing dates . Un touched for all these years . When you think all the work that’s gone into the building work . Hard graft
Brilliant Maddie very interesting and what a great tunnel.
Awesome vid thanks for the explore..
I think the large refuges were designed so that the gangers could pull their trolleys off the tracks - there would have been a very short length of track in the refuge at right angles to the running lines .
Interesting explore and very comprehensive. Thank you
And do you know what the real tragedy is Maddie? They closed this tunnel down in a time when the railways were being downgraded to a second class form of transport to the car, and built housing estates and hiking trails along the track beds. But today with the ever increasing costs of public and private road transport, and traffic congestion, it could be argued that if that infrastructure had been retained, including this tunnel, it could have had another lease of life as part of a cheap and effective mass transit system for trams that can use both the railways and tramways in cities to move people around. Tragic incalculable loss.
Thank you for this Maddie ,I have not been able to explore for a few years ,hopefully that will change soon and I can have as much fun as you do again.Keep it up as it is almost as good going with you on camera as it would be in real life . I love all the details like length and depth etc . too very interesting .Thanks again.
Aww that's a lovely comment thankyou so much! 😊
Interesting video 😊👍
Thanks for this great video and information :-) A very rare tunnel this one, you must work for the council or know someone with the key (?) I think once there was a tiny gap in the north portal but not an easy squeeze.
Looks like that gap has re-opened - Don't fancy crawling in to find out though.
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Great video . Can U still get access
How did you get in ??
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Can't that tunnel, and others, be used for the tram network? Where they ever considered?
Yeah would have been brilliant, but one end of this tunnel is fully buried and built on which would make it extremely hard to reuse ever.
@@venturingofflimits I am sure there is a solution. Extending the tunnel, excavating, etc. The great thing about underground railways/trams is that they do not interfere with the surface. Tunnels in urban areas must be used to Maximum effect.
@@johnburns4017 I'm not sure about the Sherwood Rise tunnel, but Geoffrey Skelsey, in his book Nottingham's New Trams: The NET Success Story, says that a route going through the Mansfield Road/ Thurland Street tunnels was one of the options considered initially, but was not viable for reasons including cost and limited access to the city centre.
@@nottinghamandbeyond475 Yes, that's true. It was envisaged when Victoria Station closed, during redevelopment as the shopping centre they would leave enough room for twin tracks for rapid transit, with a tram stop under the car parks. In the end then idea was dropped. How short sighted was that! Would be very well used today, and bring people in without polluting road traffic!
@@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf Call me crazy lol Im all for it , there is even a site stating they are calling on banning tramlinks potential future extwnsions.
Because this firm wants to reopen and reutilize the underground system, there is a way with those who are completely well off to donate something towards the tram website. Let me know if you'd like the link for it.