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Don't think theres any history other then it used to run from........somewhere, to the cement works in Rochester, Maniac will be able to tell you more lol, Mooched with, Maniac, Jesus, Jesus's mate, I don't know who the other one was lol. Enjoy the wafty layout of a big long tunnel! :D...

My new torch arrived on Friday and I was itching to get out and test it Saturday was a no go because CBA set in. Sunday morning greeted me with no hangover so I decided to head over to Bakewell to visit the tunnel, I was thinking about Holme Bank Chirt mine but I wanted something bigger to...

How do lads and lasses. I first got into exploring by taking an interest in Miley Tunnel. Coming from Preston, you often heard stories of Miley Tunnel and it's supposed paranormal inhabitants. This place was used to scare young kids, for teenagers to dare each other to walk through and for...

History: At a neat 600 yards in length, Neidpath/South Park/Peebles/Castle Hill Tunnel - take your pick! - threaded the Symington Biggar & Broughton Railway through a projecting shoulder of rock under South Park Woods. Originally proposed by the Caledonian Railway in 1846, the scheme met...

One of the first places I ever went many moons ago. Cefn Glas (also known as Quakers Yard) Tunnel carried the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway which was absorbed into the Great Western’s empire in 1863, a year before the line opened. The route made...

Another lunchtime explore, I was after the Black Panther drain but it's once again sealed so access to the will be with a boat for now :( The tunnel itself was dry for the most part but got quite wet towards the middle due to poor drainage First set of scaffold Chair in a tunnel, with...

Visited today with my daughter, my first 'underground, for me as not done a tunnel before and found it most enjoyable despite my claustrophobia , was longer than I thought and decent Torches are the next purchase for me now !! A bit of history from a signpost and a few more pictures (not...

Well I was heading home and realised I'd never seen the Chesterfield Tunnel even though I posted the lead on it well over a year ago Access was a nightmare with the footpath next to the wall and fence being the busiest bit of path I've ever seen Eventually I just jumped over and almost broke...

According to the MOD the underground military stuff in Wiltshire doesn't exist so you're not about to look at this and the pictures don't exist. I also looked at some other stuff in the area but my battery died in here :( Archive Pic Archive Pic

I had the opportunity for a mid week explore, so would of been rude not to.. This is nothing special just a drainage tunnel for the quarry, which is around a mile long from start to finish and ends up in the bottom of the pit The Delabole slate quarry is one of the largest of its type in...

A revisit was in order with Obscurity,Fortknox0 and frosty and this time Space Invader joined us for a look around This is looking back along the Arp (tower hamlets tunnel) just before lagoon caves Section leading to the tower hamlets tunnel from the lagoon caves Now a few from in lagoon...

Being right on are door step and hearing of plans to try and open them to the public we decided a local explore was in order ... visited with wevsky obscurity and frosty .. a little history.. The town's borough engineer and surveyor R.D. Brimmell conceived and planned a scheme for tunneling...

Noahs ark arp tunnel explored with SilverFox late one night on a return trip from folkestone. Have to apologize for lack of tunnel shots the ols camera wasnt really up to the job. Bit of history pinched from Subterranean History This tunnel was originally dug to carry a water main, but...

Visited with Space Invader and Fort Knox Zero And for some History; Many proposals had been made for a Channel Tunnel dating as far back as Napoleonic times and in 1875 serious planning began on both sides of the Channel. However, early attempts on the English side were not very successful and...

visited with Silver Rainbow and fortknox o a little history... There had been numerous proposals for a tunnel under the channel throughout the 19th Century including one by Napoleon, but the first serious attempt to build a tunnel came with an Act of Parliament in 1875 authorising the Channel...

Maniac i know i posted this section once before and by all means delete that thread ,that was very early days of owning a dslr..so naff I did a revisit recently with my first real underground try out with the d90. The entrance all us explorers used was finally sealed months back but as ever...

visited with Silver Rainbow ... After exploreing crete rd in the morning ,we decided that we would head up to dover for the afternoon explore after nearly getting soaked through in the morning :x we agreed that underground was are best option and what a choice :D dover has to offer so...

Visited with Space Invader, Wevsky, Obscurity, Nelly and Skeleton Key I see that Nelly has already done a top report and pretty much covered the history but heres a little more; The history of the Connaught Tunnel dates back to 1878. It allowed the railway to be diverted under the Connaught...

Sitting below the coast guard station in Langdon, Dover, is a tunnel used duing WW2. This has been maintained well and is still accessed by the coast guard station and they have even installed a small gym. Not huge but interesting and nice to see.

Explored with Skeleton Key, Wevsky, Space Invader, Obscurity and Silver Rainbow Connaught Road Station and Tunnel opened on 3rd August 1880 I don't have a date for this map, bit somebody may be able to date it from the Pontoon Docks which are no longer there. On the 7th September 1940 the...