Thanks for a well presented video. Brings back many memories of the G. N. line from Belgrave Road which I grew up living by, near to Humberstone Road Station. Many Sunday trips to Skeggy and Mablethorpe and a lifelong interest in railways. I walked through Hose tunnel soon after closure and had memories then of travelling the line. Almost 60 years later your video brought it all back again. Sad that Belgrave Road and Melton Mowbray North are now only available in memory, two very grand stations for such a little used line. My early memories are of various G. N. R. 0-6-0 locos on the morning workmen's train into Leicester, and the wood trains from the Docks at Boston going to Hollis's Wood merchants on Ulverscroft Road. Holiday Trains with J6, K2 and B1 locos often with non corridor Gresley quadart coaching stock, and the evening goods aka "The Pig Train", so called after on one occasion setting fire to a pigsty near the Forest Road "Black Pad". The last J6 on the line was 64178, and the last J39 was 64736, which I took a black and white photo of as it passed our house for the last time. B1's and L. M. S. "Flying pigs" were among the final locos. Then the scrap trains began with Sulzer type 2's, I have some photos of the scrap trains and the steel bridges being demolished. I have not looked at them in years as it's too sad. The tunnel still looks in remarkably good condition after all this time what a pity it's not become a Cycleway it would rival the Monsal Trail for views of East Leicestershire! Now I live in North Yorkshire, and seldom get back to Leicester but I have still got a lot of memories from my childhood there. Thanks again for rekindling the memories!
With my late cousin who was my best friend too, I spent hours in this tunnel and on top of it looking down onto the tracks which at that time were live with the occasional freight steam train. We dared one another seeing how far we would walk into the darkness with the added excitement a train might pass through. I just remember the station buildings and their demolishment. Lying in my bed on a winter's morning in Clawson I could hear steam engines struggle on the gradient up to the tunnel, their sound disappeared with them as they entered into it. The chicken coups were put there by a local chicken farmer who I knew. We would cycle to the line at Upper Broughton and do much the same thing there again that line was a working one. It's a wonder we weren't splattered across the front of a train like a fly on a windshield. Happy days. Children reading this don't do what we did. Thanks for vid. (Anthony I've never forgotten you, gone much too soon)
Blimey that brought back some memories!!! When I was a kid we moved to Melton Mowbray from Ireland and one of my mates lived in Clawson (or Long Clawson to give it the full name), we used to play around on the old railway line which by then was disused. Exploring the tunnel was a bit scary at that age but great fun. I can't believe how clean that water looked, mind you I wouldn't fancy drinking it!! I remember sitting in Melton Railway Station one evening around 1975 when the prototype HST came in, at the time it was still a silvery-grey colour not in it's full livery, on it's way to the test track - it was an amazing sight. Thanks for that video it was a lovely surprise.
Fantastic 😀 Glad it jolted the memories. I've had this one on the radar since around May last year, but bad weather and deciding if to walk the route kept me undecided. We also ticked off John o Gaunt viaduct later the same day 😀
@@TrekkingExploration Bloody hell mate, this is like 'all our yesterday's', my mate Phil used to live in John O'Gaunt and we were always on that viaduct buggering about!!!!
That was just fantastic. The stone and brickwork totally awesome. It’s disgusting how people think it’s ok to dump rubbish where they want. Thank you so much for taking me along
Back in the mid 60s my self and my brother and our mates used to play in and on the tunnel. Trains were still using the line at that time and because it has a curve in it you could not see if there was one coming from either direction. That was half the fun. The line was closed to freight in 1964. We also often looked down through the vent pipes from on top of the hill has trains passed through. After the line was closed our mates parents brought the tunnel and used it for poultry farming and also growing mushrooms at one time. Hence the chicken cages.. I believe they still owned it in the mid 90s when i returned to Harby for a holiday. My brother and I took our kids for a walk through on that occasion.
Another well produced video, using archived photos. Limestone/Sandstone and Ironstone was quarried in the area at Eastwell and Eaton and was readily available for some of the brickwork, as demonstrated in the video. I remember the filling in of the south side cutting and under the road bridge around twenty years ago, which was a shame, but common with many abandoned railway cuttings. The line went through Melton North station, demolished in 1970 (not the Melton Mowbray Midland line station), which was situated where the present QD Discounts store is now (old Co-Op Supermarket site). There was talk of reusing the line north of the tunnel when coal was discovered in the Vale of Belvoir, in the 1980s, but never persued, because of cost/objections. The line through the tunnel was lifted in early 1965, very shortly after final use, to just before the site of Stathern Ironstone Sidings about 1.5 miles north of the tunnel. This lasted until around late 1967/early 1968, when ironstone extraction ceased in the area.
This tunnel looks in very good condition with the exception of one or two areas that are easily repairable, again as i have said before, lets get it back into use. A cycle route would secure its future with a chance to bring the railway back when needed.
excellent video 👍it looks like a fly tipping on a grand scale the tunnel is in excellent condition for its age looking at the photos you wish it was like it again and up and running again
what beautiful brick and structure built by true crafts persons, gives me chills to think of how many men worked on these tunnels and railway lines so sad to see it not being preserved
Great stuff again, keep it up. It's possible the rubbish dumped either end is to discourage off roaders going through and making a mess of the surrounding countryside.
Very good video, beautifully filmed and presented. I 've had an interest in this line for years together with the branch that ran off at Marefield Junction to Leicester Belgrave Road Station. I first walked this tunnel, like you from the north portal, way back in 1976 when the entrance was a bit less overgrown. Cycled some 25 miles to get there! Walked it again in 1994. Even managed to travel through it by train in 1960 when I was very small, on a Leicester Belgrave Road to Mablethorpe and return Summer Saturday holiday service, for which the line became locally well known. Great stuff! Well done, folks!
Hi Peter thanks so much. There is a lot more to uncover along this railway including 2 more tunnels and a huge brick viaduct. That's coming very soon 😊
Trekking & Towpaths The other tunnels are at East Norton which I haven't visited since 1995 and Thurnby ( Ingarsby ) which I last visited 20 years before that. John O' Gaunt viaduct is fantastic with great views and can be accessed via Marefield. Look forward to the video!
Hi Ant, what a wonderful race we are, always so quick to dump our rubbish in the countryside and even more wonderful that we can find the remotest hidden tunnel to chuck it in 🤛 That B &W shows how much infill there is in the cutting, that looked really heavy going!! Love that the water run off culvert still works. Shall we all have a whip round to get Joanne some new boots?!!!!
I'll set up a go fund me 😂 I came off worse I had walking shoes on 😄 I almost gave up on finding an old image then I found this One. It clearly was once a very deep cutting
Hi Ant I loved the shot of the four sections of wall in stone and brick. It’s quite interesting to see how they construct tunnels, you would think the brick/stone work would be continuous. It’s just a bloody big wall after all! 😂 So glad you enjoy these explores, it makes for interesting viewing. The areas you explore I only know from maps and it is good to see them in real life. Great video. Thanks pal! 😁👍👊
At the south end, where the cutting is infilled for Landike Lane, there used to be a nice 3-arch bridge that carried a cuverted stream (and the road) over the cutting. The stream now runs into the cutting causing the 'Dampness'.
I've done more tunnels this year so far than last year altogether 😀 Back on the canals next weekend I think with a short midweek one possibility 😉 Thanks for watching
Thank you for this video, I am so glad that you showed the Midland Railway Holwell mineral branch that is ran across the tunnel. This branch ran to Wycombe junction where it joined up with the GNR Eaton branch. There was a station at Waltham On The Wolds probably the least used station in Britain and it was never in any timetable. Only used for race days at Croxton Park. There were sidings there for iron ore traffic. The GNR branch ran from Scalford on the GNR/LNWR branch. Most of the traffic on the Eaton branch was handled by the Midland railway, whilst the GNR only handled traffic from Park Gate's pit at Eaton and Stavely's pits at the end of the branch Waltham quarries. The GNR handled the ore from Eastwell which went via an ariel ropeway to Stathern sidings on the GNR/LNWR. Another place of interest further south is Welham sidings, used by coal trains using the branch and the Medbourne curve. Stephen
This looks amazing, nice little tour but where abouts is this/how do I get there as me and my partner have just explored the ingarsby tunnel (that was brilliant and dark 😀) and we would love to take a look here aswell, nice video 👍
Love coming on your walks. You narrate it so well. It’s always a crying shame are once fantastic rail network was vandalised so much by being closed down and pulled up 😩 Now we’re taking about reversing the Beaching cuts 🙄 You couldn’t make it up lol 😆 Hopefully we’ll see some sense and start putting it back along with HS2 👍🏻
Glad you enjoy them. Thankyou for your kind comment. One i walked last year was the Stanton Branch, closed in 2007. Today that was officially re opened :)
Good Evening Anthony, Sorry I keep saying this, but it was nice to watch another one of your amazing videos. Sadly I don't know the area, but do know of the Old Dalby test track and Melton Mowbray, but it's nice to find different old Railway Tunnels which you can walk through still. Nice to see the drainage is working well and in a good flow, some tunnels you go through, there blocked up and the place gets flooded. Anyway on another note, it's only two weeks away to March and the Derby Ghoal opens it's doors to the public on March 7th, so if the pair of you are still interested in a tour of the place then please let me know okay, there's no rush. Hope to hear from you soon. All the best from. Devon Mike.
Morning Mike, I've got you're email address now so you can edit it out of the comment if you wish to. It's the first time I've been into Leicester Leicestershire to explore and film so it's all a bit strange to me too. We did another later that day, a huge brick viaduct on the same line. I'm going to be doing the chesterfield Canal from stavely through Eckington any day now, so I'll let you know if you are around. The tour sounds good too 😀
Good, (well goodish morning wish the rubbish weather we're having at the moment) lol To you both, I've edited out my email address from the last message I sent you okay. And yes that sounds nice, it will be a pleasure to meet you both at last and do a walk along the canal, with me living in Eckington I've done that part of the canal myself many times before and while your in the area, why not pop up to a place called Killamarsh, it's on part of the Chesterfield Canal route too, and you can visit the remains of the old Railway Station too, sadly not much left of it now, just two platforms and the old footbridge, but it's still nice to walk through. Anyway as usual thanks again for the reply back, keep in touch, hope to see you soon. All the best from. Devon Mike.
Great Video, the drain under the former trackbed was very interesting, is that just for Hose Tunnel or did most Railway tunnels had drains underneath them? also that 'I can see you' on the wall was creepy and who leaves a load of chicken coops in a tunnel? guessing he was too chicken to get rid of them the right way! lol
I think most do. Mapperley did it we found One around 400 yard's in. These tunnels are amazing, I've done more this year than last year altogether 😂 Thanks for watching and really glad you enjoyed it
@@TrekkingExploration there's quite a lot of interesting and exquisite architecture around the area. I shall have to organise myself an explore in the future. Judging by your drone footage, the scenery certainly is spectacular. GWR
I visited this tunnel in 2016 theres a geocache in there but we came in from other end of tunnel due to Asbestos by end you came in but seems to be moved & gone
Beautiful brick work. I can understand the blue brick at the entrance, But inside? Why waste the pretty color inside? Thanks for the adventure. Watching from NE Ohio USA.
It was lovely on the inside. Did you see the Mapperley Tunnel video? Some lovely colours and variations in there 😀 Thanks for watching and hello to you in the USA 👍😀
The blue bricks aren’t to make it look nice, they are blue engineering bricks so they are very dense, strong and resistant to the effects of moisture and frost. They are blue because of the type of clay they use to make them. 👍👍
@@TrekkingExploration ive done this tunel couple times myself , the wet patches in there are from the shafts that was sunk when it was built ,rumour has it that the sandstone patches are a bricked off tunnel or the site of where a engine exploded but i think it marks the above line ,maybe for extra surport ,the differance in the portals is cos 1 could be seen from hose station
Yes or anywhere you go, problem is I fell off a push along scooter and bursted mt ankle only just started walking agian but like to get back to exploring in a safe way.
I walked this tunnel from the north end in 1982 , without a torch and I thought "If I had an accident I would never be found". Just then the ground disappeared and I started to fall into one of those open manholes and just managed to grip the edge otherwise I might have broke my leg. Those same chicken coops were there 38 years ago. I think there was once a proposal to reopen part of this line to reach a mine and I think the track was left in position till 1970. The trackbed at the north end was very clear of weeds and had clean ballast.
Those chicken coops have been around a long time then 😮 Those drains can take you by surprise, I'm pleased most of them still have running water in them so too hear the noise as we get closer. Thanks for watching 🙂
Thanks for a well presented video. Brings back many memories of the G. N. line from Belgrave Road which I grew up living by, near to Humberstone Road Station. Many Sunday trips to Skeggy and Mablethorpe and a lifelong interest in railways. I walked through Hose tunnel soon after closure and had memories then of travelling the line. Almost 60 years later your video brought it all back again. Sad that Belgrave Road and Melton Mowbray North are now only available in memory, two very grand stations for such a little used line. My early memories are of various G. N. R. 0-6-0 locos on the morning workmen's train into Leicester, and the wood trains from the Docks at Boston going to Hollis's Wood merchants on Ulverscroft Road. Holiday Trains with J6, K2 and B1 locos often with non corridor Gresley quadart coaching stock, and the evening goods aka "The Pig Train", so called after on one occasion setting fire to a pigsty near the Forest Road "Black Pad". The last J6 on the line was 64178, and the last J39 was 64736, which I took a black and white photo of as it passed our house for the last time. B1's and L. M. S. "Flying pigs" were among the final locos. Then the scrap trains began with Sulzer type 2's, I have some photos of the scrap trains and the steel bridges being demolished. I have not looked at them in years as it's too sad.
The tunnel still looks in remarkably good condition after all this time what a pity it's not become a Cycleway it would rival the Monsal Trail for views of East Leicestershire!
Now I live in North Yorkshire, and seldom get back to Leicester but I have still got a lot of memories from my childhood there.
Thanks again for rekindling the memories!
With my late cousin who was my best friend too, I spent hours in this tunnel and on top of it looking down onto the tracks which at that time were live with the occasional freight steam train. We dared one another seeing how far we would walk into the darkness with the added excitement a train might pass through. I just remember the station buildings and their demolishment. Lying in my bed on a winter's morning in Clawson I could hear steam engines struggle on the gradient up to the tunnel, their sound disappeared with them as they entered into it. The chicken coups were put there by a local chicken farmer who I knew. We would cycle to the line at Upper Broughton and do much the same thing there again that line was a working one. It's a wonder we weren't splattered across the front of a train like a fly on a windshield. Happy days. Children reading this don't do what we did. Thanks for vid. (Anthony I've never forgotten you, gone much too soon)
Blimey that brought back some memories!!! When I was a kid we moved to Melton Mowbray from Ireland and one of my mates lived in Clawson (or Long Clawson to give it the full name), we used to play around on the old railway line which by then was disused. Exploring the tunnel was a bit scary at that age but great fun. I can't believe how clean that water looked, mind you I wouldn't fancy drinking it!! I remember sitting in Melton Railway Station one evening around 1975 when the prototype HST came in, at the time it was still a silvery-grey colour not in it's full livery, on it's way to the test track - it was an amazing sight. Thanks for that video it was a lovely surprise.
Fantastic 😀 Glad it jolted the memories. I've had this one on the radar since around May last year, but bad weather and deciding if to walk the route kept me undecided. We also ticked off John o Gaunt viaduct later the same day 😀
@@TrekkingExploration Bloody hell mate, this is like 'all our yesterday's', my mate Phil used to live in John O'Gaunt and we were always on that viaduct buggering about!!!!
There is also Lowesby nearby and another shorter tunnel too that I can't remember what it's called 😂
@@TrekkingExploration Next time you're going give me a 'shout' I'd love to see the old stomping ground again.
@@TrekkingExploration Thurnby Tunnel on the branch to Leicester. Also East Norton Tunnel on this same route, but further south.
I love how Ant sees beauty in things that many others take for granted
Thanks Mick 😊 Glad you enjoyed it 😊
That was just fantastic. The stone and brickwork totally awesome. It’s disgusting how people think it’s ok to dump rubbish where they want. Thank you so much for taking me along
Back in the mid 60s my self and my brother and our mates used to play in and on the tunnel. Trains were still using the line at that time and because it has a curve in it you could not see if there was one coming from either direction. That was half the fun. The line was closed to freight in 1964. We also often looked down through the vent pipes from on top of the hill has trains passed through. After the line was closed our mates parents brought the tunnel and used it for poultry farming and also growing mushrooms at one time. Hence the chicken cages.. I believe they still owned it in the mid 90s when i returned to Harby for a holiday. My brother and I took our kids for a walk through on that occasion.
Another well produced video, using archived photos.
Limestone/Sandstone and Ironstone was quarried in the area at Eastwell and Eaton and was readily available for some of the brickwork, as demonstrated in the video.
I remember the filling in of the south side cutting and under the road bridge around twenty years ago, which was a shame, but common with many abandoned railway cuttings.
The line went through Melton North station, demolished in 1970 (not the Melton Mowbray Midland line station), which was situated where the present QD Discounts store is now (old Co-Op Supermarket site).
There was talk of reusing the line north of the tunnel when coal was discovered in the Vale of Belvoir, in the 1980s, but never persued, because of cost/objections.
The line through the tunnel was lifted in early 1965, very shortly after final use, to just before the site of Stathern Ironstone Sidings about 1.5 miles north of the tunnel. This lasted until around late 1967/early 1968, when ironstone extraction ceased in the area.
Thank you Ant, for the interesting video today. Quite a storage facility. Cheers mates.
Thanks for posting. Magnificant portal on one end but not so on the other.
Again I've walked that tunnel and again we used that cutting for motorcycle trials. It was filled in in the early 2010's
@Ippy poonam Strasa motorcycle trials. We use the banks to ride up and down
@Ippy poonam Strasa Nope easy access 👍🏻
Well produced and presented, love watching your stuff!!
Thanks Very much for these kind comments 😀🙂
This tunnel looks in very good condition with the exception of one or two areas that are easily repairable, again as i have said before, lets get it back into use. A cycle route would secure its future with a chance to bring the railway back when needed.
There were hen coops in there when i walked through it in 1978!
excellent video 👍it looks like a fly tipping on a grand scale the tunnel is in excellent condition for its age looking at the photos you wish it was like it again and up and running again
what beautiful brick and structure built by true crafts persons, gives me chills to think of how many men worked on these tunnels and railway lines so sad to see it not being preserved
It just shows how much there is still to explore, so glad you guys take the time to produce such great films
I bet there is a lot still to be found 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Great stuff again, keep it up. It's possible the rubbish dumped either end is to discourage off roaders going through and making a mess of the surrounding countryside.
Very good video, beautifully filmed and presented. I 've had an interest in this line for years together with the branch that ran off at Marefield Junction to Leicester Belgrave Road Station. I first walked this tunnel, like you from the north portal, way back in 1976 when the entrance was a bit less overgrown. Cycled some 25 miles to get there! Walked it again in 1994. Even managed to travel through it by train in 1960 when I was very small, on a Leicester Belgrave Road to Mablethorpe and return Summer Saturday holiday service, for which the line became locally well known. Great stuff! Well done, folks!
Hi Peter thanks so much. There is a lot more to uncover along this railway including 2 more tunnels and a huge brick viaduct. That's coming very soon 😊
Trekking & Towpaths The other tunnels are at East Norton which I haven't visited since 1995 and Thurnby ( Ingarsby ) which I last visited 20 years before that. John O' Gaunt viaduct is fantastic with great views and can be accessed via Marefield. Look forward to the video!
Hi Ant, what a wonderful race we are, always so quick to dump our rubbish in the countryside and even more wonderful that we can find the remotest hidden tunnel to chuck it in 🤛 That B &W shows how much infill there is in the cutting, that looked really heavy going!! Love that the water run off culvert still works. Shall we all have a whip round to get Joanne some new boots?!!!!
I'll set up a go fund me 😂 I came off worse I had walking shoes on 😄 I almost gave up on finding an old image then I found this One. It clearly was once a very deep cutting
The chicken pens belong to the tunnel owner, so technicaly they are not dumped, he is storing them within his own property.
Hi Ant I loved the shot of the four sections of wall in stone and brick. It’s quite interesting to see how they construct tunnels, you would think the brick/stone work would be continuous. It’s just a bloody big wall after all! 😂 So glad you enjoy these explores, it makes for interesting viewing. The areas you explore I only know from maps and it is good to see them in real life. Great video. Thanks pal! 😁👍👊
Ahhh Melton Mowbray to Bottesford South...couldn't find the Mowbray station site when I visited. Where is it? Spiffing film, thank you!
Damn, music towards the end was great..
Cheers Mark. I really do spend too Long choosing what sounds right lol. Thanks for watching 😄😉
At the south end, where the cutting is infilled for Landike Lane, there used to be a nice 3-arch bridge that carried a cuverted stream (and the road) over the cutting. The stream now runs into the cutting causing the 'Dampness'.
Another great video .....Always love a good trackbed wander .....Cheers Ant ........Frank & Lee
I've done more tunnels this year so far than last year altogether 😀 Back on the canals next weekend I think with a short midweek one possibility 😉 Thanks for watching
Thank you for this video, I am so glad that you showed the Midland Railway Holwell mineral branch that is ran across the tunnel. This branch ran to Wycombe junction where it joined up with the GNR Eaton branch. There was a station at Waltham On The Wolds probably the least used station in Britain and it was never in any timetable. Only used for race days at Croxton Park. There were sidings there for iron ore traffic.
The GNR branch ran from Scalford on the GNR/LNWR branch.
Most of the traffic on the Eaton branch was handled by the Midland railway, whilst the GNR only handled traffic from Park Gate's pit at Eaton and Stavely's pits at the end of the branch Waltham quarries.
The GNR handled the ore from Eastwell which went via an ariel ropeway to Stathern sidings on the GNR/LNWR.
Another place of interest further south is Welham sidings, used by coal trains using the branch and the Medbourne curve.
Stephen
This looks amazing, nice little tour but where abouts is this/how do I get there as me and my partner have just explored the ingarsby tunnel (that was brilliant and dark 😀) and we would love to take a look here aswell, nice video 👍
Love coming on your walks. You narrate it so well. It’s always a crying shame are once fantastic rail network was vandalised so much by being closed down and pulled up 😩 Now we’re taking about reversing the Beaching cuts 🙄 You couldn’t make it up lol 😆 Hopefully we’ll see some sense and start putting it back along with HS2 👍🏻
Glad you enjoy them. Thankyou for your kind comment. One i walked last year was the Stanton Branch, closed in 2007. Today that was officially re opened :)
Came from Martin’s channel so glad I did!
Hey 😀 Lovely to have you here 😄
Good Evening Anthony,
Sorry I keep saying this, but it was nice to watch another one of your amazing videos.
Sadly I don't know the area, but do know of the Old Dalby test track and Melton Mowbray, but it's nice to find different old Railway Tunnels which you can walk through still.
Nice to see the drainage is working well and in a good flow, some tunnels you go through, there blocked up and the place gets flooded.
Anyway on another note, it's only two weeks away to March and the Derby Ghoal opens it's doors to the public on March 7th, so if the pair of you are still interested in a tour of the place then please let me know okay, there's no rush.
Hope to hear from you soon.
All the best from. Devon Mike.
Morning Mike, I've got you're email address now so you can edit it out of the comment if you wish to. It's the first time I've been into Leicester Leicestershire to explore and film so it's all a bit strange to me too. We did another later that day, a huge brick viaduct on the same line. I'm going to be doing the chesterfield Canal from stavely through Eckington any day now, so I'll let you know if you are around. The tour sounds good too 😀
Good, (well goodish morning wish the rubbish weather we're having at the moment) lol
To you both, I've edited out my email address from the last message I sent you okay.
And yes that sounds nice, it will be a pleasure to meet you both at last and do a walk along the canal, with me living in Eckington I've done that part of the canal myself many times before and while your in the area, why not pop up to a place called Killamarsh, it's on part of the Chesterfield Canal route too, and you can visit the remains of the old Railway Station too, sadly not much left of it now, just two platforms and the old footbridge, but it's still nice to walk through.
Anyway as usual thanks again for the reply back, keep in touch, hope to see you soon.
All the best from.
Devon Mike.
Hello. Good Job. 🆒Film.
Bravo👍👀
I love the rusticated stonework in the tunnel entrance. What care people took over such details when rarely would anyone pause to notice?
I,ve been to this tunnel a few times,also made a video of it.I was there last week,it has now been sealed off.
Fantastic explore at 1st thought you were going to find a old car in there
How amazing would that be? Maybe one day 😄
Great Video, the drain under the former trackbed was very interesting, is that just for Hose Tunnel or did most Railway tunnels had drains underneath them? also that 'I can see you' on the wall was creepy and who leaves a load of chicken coops in a tunnel? guessing he was too chicken to get rid of them the right way! lol
I think most do. Mapperley did it we found One around 400 yard's in. These tunnels are amazing, I've done more this year than last year altogether 😂 Thanks for watching and really glad you enjoyed it
What a lovely place. Such a shame that some people think it's acceptable to go around leaving rubbish everywhere. Great video BTW. GWR
It is, it's absolutely in the middle of nowhere, so peaceful. Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it 🙂
@@TrekkingExploration there's quite a lot of interesting and exquisite architecture around the area. I shall have to organise myself an explore in the future.
Judging by your drone footage, the scenery certainly is spectacular. GWR
I'm going to have to explore that. Any advice on how best to approach it?
Went to visit this tunnel today 25/10/21 and found the south portal to be recently sealed.
Lol @Joanne saying "moist"
Twice 😂😂😂
@@TrekkingExploration M&M - Moist and Moist 😂😂
Are you allowed to go inside of it and is the track now a public path?
It's not a public path but yeah walk in. No fences or signs 👍
I visited this tunnel in 2016 theres a geocache in there but we came in from other end of tunnel due to Asbestos by end you came in but seems to be moved & gone
It's a pretty good tunnel. Apparently those chicken cages have been there a few decades too 😮
Was it a strip and cover?
Beautiful brick work. I can understand the blue brick at the entrance, But inside? Why waste the pretty color inside? Thanks for the adventure. Watching from NE Ohio USA.
It was lovely on the inside. Did you see the Mapperley Tunnel video? Some lovely colours and variations in there 😀 Thanks for watching and hello to you in the USA 👍😀
The blue bricks aren’t to make it look nice, they are blue engineering bricks so they are very dense, strong and resistant to the effects of moisture and frost. They are blue because of the type of clay they use to make them. 👍👍
@@paulcharlton4788 Thanks. I knew if I asked, someone would answer. 👍😊
@@TrekkingExploration Yes, thanks for the tour.
wonder if the 2 squares of sandstone brick work marks the location of the railway that runs above ?
That's a really good suggestion I've not thought or read anything like that. Interesting 👍🙂
@@TrekkingExploration ive done this tunel couple times myself , the wet patches in there are from the shafts that was sunk when it was built ,rumour has it that the sandstone patches are a bricked off tunnel or the site of where a engine exploded but i think it marks the above line ,maybe for extra surport ,the differance in the portals is cos 1 could be seen from hose station
Next time you go could you let us know, I like to about march if that is ok.
This tunnel in particular?
Yes or anywhere you go, problem is I fell off a push along scooter and bursted mt ankle only just started walking agian but like to get back to exploring in a safe way.
Visited this lovely tunnel earlier this year. Such a shame - both ends now bricked up. Why ruin such a nice structure?
Who's bricked it up..another jobsworth
@@leevww I'm sure you're right. Usually, bats are made the excuse for doing this.
Can't get in there now it's been blocked off with a concrete wall 😢
Yeah a couple of years ago both ends I think
I walked this tunnel from the north end in 1982 , without a torch and I thought "If I had an accident I would never be found". Just then the ground disappeared and I started to fall into one of those open manholes and just managed to grip the edge otherwise I might have broke my leg. Those same chicken coops were there 38 years ago.
I think there was once a proposal to reopen part of this line to reach a mine and I think the track was left in position till 1970. The trackbed at the north end was very clear of weeds and had clean ballast.
Those chicken coops have been around a long time then 😮
Those drains can take you by surprise, I'm pleased most of them still have running water in them so too hear the noise as we get closer.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Locally known as Brock hill Tunnel.
The farmer should be done for fly tipping.
It's a shame that some people don't know how to dispose of trash properly. That would be a beautiful tunnel if some fool hadn't used it as a dump.
I know that's two in a row now that has been messed up like this. We did Thurgoland last week, much better inside. Thank you for watching 🙂
I am from Brasil.
Hi Clodoaldo, welcome to England!!
Hello to you 🙂
The way you whent in is where we exit ! Think you whent the wrong way
I walked through it then filmed it on the way back 👍