Armidillo wrote: ↑10 May 2024, 23:40
That Clayton Tunnel entrance is fantastic - are there any other tunnel entrances in the UK (or Europe) that have such ornate entries/exits?
and at Otley a memorial to the workers who lost their lives in the construction of the tunnel. Bramhope Tunnel memorial
Betty Longbottom / Bramhope Tunnel Memorial - Kirkgate
geograph stamped image An East Midlands Railway train emerges from one of the elaborately castellated portals of Redhill tunnels near Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire. The portal shown was constructed in the 1830s, the other to the left out of shot around 100years later, both double tracked portals face North over the river Trent and rarely see the sun, notice the green algae on some of the masonry. Close up access to the battlements can be gained to the rear via a very steep and muddy slope.
Lincolnshire's last railway tunnel. The engineer responsible for the tunnel was Denzil Ibbetson, born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in 1847. At the time he was working as a civil engineer on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. Now a single line runs through it, but it was double track until the 1980s.
Responsible for the tunnel entrance was Sir John Hawkshaw
The south portal of Mickleham Tunnel on the Dorking to Leatherhead railway. Opened in 1867, the tunnel is 524 yards long and goes under a spur of the North Downs in Norbury Park. The owner of Norbury Park at the time, Thomas Grissell, imposed various conditions on the railway, and this included the special architectural treatment of the portal here.
Spectacular - I want one (especially one with towers & turrets)!! Forget the rails - wouldn't they make great undercover parking for our froggy treasures
One story told in the Forgotten Relics site concerns this in Gibbo country...
North portal of Mierystock Tunnel for SO6114 This tunnel, one of two notable engineering features on the original Severn and Wye Railway system, was closed in 1956 and was buried at this end during the 1970s to prevent unauthorised access. In 2007, the old approach cutting was excavated by a group of local men with the ultimate aim of reopening the tunnel to pedestrians and cyclists, thus avoiding a hair raising crossing of the main Gloucester - Monmouth road which passes over the tunnel. So far, however, this has not come to pass and the approach cutting has turned into the overgrown bed of a fairly substantial stream and is impassable. I managed to get this photo only by clambering over a couple of fences, ignoring some "DANGER!" signs and perching precariously on a tree growing out of the cutting side at an alarming angle some distance above the former trackbed.
Neil
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There were always rumours that a couple of tunnels down this way ( Cocking, and Privett) were used to store army surplus kit after the war. I presume similar rumours exist for an awful lot of tunnels up and down the country ? Anyone know of any tunnel rumours local to them ?