No gas at all!! I believe the gas issue was due to extensive landfill above the tunnel causing methane gas build up, and the building you see outside the soothill side portal was, or maybe still is monitoring the gas levels.
I lived on Soothill and this area was our playground as kids. We would regularly walk through the tunnel from the Soothill end to Woodkirk. There was no pumping station at the enterance at the time, it was just bricked up with a small enterance door to the left. I can remember the middle part having quite a lot of orange mud, I'm guessing the colour was caused by iron oxide from the quarry? In the 1970s there were quarries to one side of the tunnel and open cast mining to the other. Both were used as household waste tips then and landfill then landscaped...I was told that the landfill plastics had formed a near waterproof film under the landscaping which was why the area was so muddy, also the decaying waste gave off methane gas some of which has leaked into the tunnel...if you continue down the track bed at the end of the video it would have eventually taken you to Batley railway station via an estate built on top of the old line....Thanks for posting this video, it brought back memories. 😊
@@RichardCour thank you ! Thanks for your memories ! 😃 I will be hopefully doing a full video on this line at some point ! And will try and include this information ! Glad it brought back memories for ya
@@exploringthepastandthepres9793There was a pub opposite the church at the road entrance to the station called The Cardigan Arms. I remember the derelict building as a kid, it was knocked down in the early 1970s to make room for widening the road.
hiya mate , this channel is going from strength to strength , most of the long lost lost lines where i live have been wiped off the face of the earth , but a few gems remain out in wilds , found some great things too , thanks very much from nick , tracys husband , in wigan , lancashire
Keep up the amazing work Ashton this to me is tribute to the amazing Civil Engineering of the time, your coverage is getting better and I look forward to buying the dvd or book as you progress, brilliant stuff keep it up buddy 👊👍👏👏
Always wanted to do this one and Bolsover. On National highways to fill in I expect :(. They are going to fill in Barnsdale tunnel now I believe according to Ant on trekking & explorstion :(
I would love to walk through Soothill Tunnel. If breathing apparatus is necessary so be it. If the smell of gas is so bad I wonder if a naked flame would cause an explosion? 💥 What sort of gas is it?
Those platform remains, what an exciting find! I'd clean them up.
This tunnel was still open to walk through in early 70s when I lived at Soothill. Real adventure for a 7 year old!!
Thanks ! Surely no gas in there in the 70s 😀
No gas at all!! I believe the gas issue was due to extensive landfill above the tunnel causing methane gas build up, and the building you see outside the soothill side portal was, or maybe still is monitoring the gas levels.
superb as always thank you
Thank you 🤩
I lived on Soothill and this area was our playground as kids. We would regularly walk through the tunnel from the Soothill end to Woodkirk. There was no pumping station at the enterance at the time, it was just bricked up with a small enterance door to the left. I can remember the middle part having quite a lot of orange mud, I'm guessing the colour was caused by iron oxide from the quarry? In the 1970s there were quarries to one side of the tunnel and open cast mining to the other. Both were used as household waste tips then and landfill then landscaped...I was told that the landfill plastics had formed a near waterproof film under the landscaping which was why the area was so muddy, also the decaying waste gave off methane gas some of which has leaked into the tunnel...if you continue down the track bed at the end of the video it would have eventually taken you to Batley railway station via an estate built on top of the old line....Thanks for posting this video, it brought back memories. 😊
@@RichardCour thank you !
Thanks for your memories ! 😃
I will be hopefully doing a full video on this line at some point ! And will try and include this information ! Glad it brought back memories for ya
@@exploringthepastandthepres9793There was a pub opposite the church at the road entrance to the station called The Cardigan Arms. I remember the derelict building as a kid, it was knocked down in the early 1970s to make room for widening the road.
Been a long time since I’ve seen that, walked through the tunnel many times as a youngster playing around there.
hiya mate , this channel is going from strength to strength , most of the long lost lost lines where i live have been wiped off the face of the earth , but a few gems remain out in wilds , found some great things too , thanks very much from nick , tracys husband , in wigan , lancashire
Thank you ! If you have any suggestions for railways near you I’d love for some recommendations 😃
Love the old platform discovery. Part of me wants to grab a strimmer and find out what’s underneath all that!!!! Great video
Same !
Very interesting Ashton 😎
Thank you! I had have never known about this one . Someone who’s parents came across it showed me it ! 😄😃
Keep up the amazing work Ashton this to me is tribute to the amazing Civil Engineering of the time, your coverage is getting better and I look forward to buying the dvd or book as you progress, brilliant stuff keep it up buddy 👊👍👏👏
Thanks man appreciate it
We went down 2years ago more winterish time though and you could see so much more. Because of the overgrowth had died down obviously x
Awww Ano winter time can be better for these explores as your more likely to see Less vegetation !
Nice little walk tho and thanks for subscribing 😁😎
Those holes in the South portal could have been made for access by bats.
Probably yeah 😎
Lovely video, Ashton. Don't blame you for not wanting to inhale the awful gases of Soothill! Glad you found the one shaft, though.
I know ! 😅 ! Yh the shaft was a brill discovery
Always wanted to do this one and Bolsover. On National highways to fill in I expect :(. They are going to fill in Barnsdale tunnel now I believe according to Ant on trekking & explorstion :(
I explored barnsdale with him actually
But never knew about them filling it in 😢
Fab❤
great vid where is acess to this
Thank you !
Unfortunately you can’t gain to the tunnel
I would love to walk through Soothill Tunnel. If breathing apparatus is necessary so be it.
If the smell of gas is so bad I wonder if a naked flame would cause an explosion? 💥 What sort of gas is it?
I’m unsure on that 😨 however it’s something so do with methane ? I believe