For many years there was a superb viaduct on Eppleworth Road, in a low valley out of Cottingham. It had [was known as] "Five Arches". In keeping with modern vandalism, it was eventually demolished . . .
The numbers on the side are station numbers, they are normally every X amount of feet or meters. We used them when doing grade or laying roadway. Someone had a sheet with the assigned elevation at each station, so when laying out the gravel or asphalt they could get everything to grade.
Hard not to be nasty. Vitriol is my fuel in life. Half jokes aside, the tunnel seems to be in very good condition, compared to others you've explored. The show was "A touch of Frost", iirc. A wonderful little show, overshadowed by giants like "Midsommer Murders", "Morse" and "Prime Suspect". If you like tractors, there's a small channel on RU-vid called "Yesterdays Machinery". Richard, the host, lives in rural Sweden and has a lot of old multi-purpose hot bulb engines, tractors and the likes of it. Very enjoyable content. Cheers.
I walked through this tunnel with my dad in the early eighties. I’m surprised that it’s still in good condition, i thought it would’ve been filled in by now.
I've freeze framed and studied carefully satellite images of Drewtons quarry portal , I think it's highly likely that due to the very steep sides of the surrounding land immediately next to the portal that the land has inevitably slipped and naturally filled in the void and settled, last couple of years has seen very heavy rainfall and chalk soil when saturated simply flows and levels itself out ,coupled with constant vibrations from quarry excavations and passing heavy dump trucks etc it was always only a matter of time, i don't think the quarry owners would have filled it themselves because they do not own it. The only way to be sure would be to gain permission from the farm owner to go in the remaining open portal and see how much more slurry has slipped inside.
The numbers could be chain lengths as that what they used for measurements back in the day and the David Jason tv show could be Frost.great video Andy love the work you did with IKS on the polish tour 👏👏👏👍
The "H" with an Arrow may well indicate the position of a "Hidden Construction Shaft". These are shafts that were filled after the tunnel was finished but sometimes they were filled with rubbish and then collapsed many years later. Indicating the shafts came about after the Strood Tunnel problems. The number at the end of the ELR reference indicates where if any, a change of mileage occurs. Hope that helps
Hello Horace, your H explanation does make sense, a lot of the Burdale tunnel problems were down to the backfilled construction shafts. Marking them does seem sensible.
Hello Anthony, yes good point! It felt ok in there air wise, not too warm or cold. We had got soaked that morning filming the Drewton tunnel video but had got changed at base camp before filming this. I was grateful for being in the dry! :)
Hi guys, just FYI, the aircraft did routinely start their engines in the HAS. In peacetime they would start up and taxi out on the first sortie of the day and remain outside the HAS for the rest of the day before being pushed back into the HAS at night. In war time/exercise conditions, they would be pushed back into the HAS after every flight. During exercises, they would occasionally taxi nose first back into the HAS if they landed during an air raid. Engineers would carry out engine ground runs inside the HAS, up to a certain power setting only. It got too noisy in there at high power, especially on the Tornado.
there is a old railway tunnel in conisbrough well they call it the cadeby tunnel you can go through it it’s a very haunted tunnel also on viaduct in conisbrough Doncaster there is a lot of tunnels there in the viaduct big long long tunnel tunnels in cliffs too near river don
I find it intresting these rail lines are long gone but you can still Trace the path even the mud sometimes stays the same Always showing how the lines curved The way the tunnels are near the others if you know
Yes they are becoming buried but in 1000 years from now or longer,, after a natural or man made disaster that brings human kind to the brink of extinction and history is forgotten,, these tunnels and other builds might be found and people will question the past,,, much like so many do when seeing the Great Pyramids or a never ending number of discoveries in the public knowledge or hidden by organizations to keep their narratives functional,,, Or at least this is my belief. Thanks for the video.
When you think of all the human man hours it took the navies to dig those tunnels and cuttings, and now the machines that disgracefully fill them back in again. More of our nations railway history obliterated. Can guarantee in future they'll say "We could do with this line now", long after it's far to late. JG.
Hello there, it sure is madness. Drax power station was built next to the line whilst the line was being closed and torn up. When the power station opened they paid to have a section of the line put back in again. All at the public cost.
That view of the 3 arch bridge is exactly like Harbury cutting and tunnel in Warwickshire. Still a busy ex GWR main line. I worked for Network Rail until 2008 so I got the same prospective view as your video shows. I think that Harbury cutting is the deepest hand cut one in the UK. It's very steep and constantly slipping due to the inclined strata of blue lias clay and limestone.
The building with no roof at the firing range is probably where they stored the targets. With it being an old RAF base I would say there is more lead landing to the left and right of the targets lol 😂
At 22:50 I am from Hull and went once to see that tunnel, I was shocked when I went over the mud hill to see the tunnel entrance just there and almost full with crap from stoneledge, These tunnels need to be listed and preserved! and not have the likes of stoneledge destroy them like they have done to so many other sites in and around the area. Excellent video and thanks.
I am wondering if the smaller plinth was for a donkey starter engine used to supply power to the main generators starter motors somewhat like the donkey starters used in some tanks and a little more reliable than batteries in winter. The mounting bolts look similar to the bolts in the floor used to mount the generators. Don't know i mat be completely wrong just a suggestion. First time i have seen your stuff and you have an new and avid watcher here i will be dropping in again for sure. Great to see these places getting the publicity they so rightly deserve. Hats off to all those that served in these dark times.
Nice video guys. You were walking around "Gold Sector" which was used by II (AC) Sqn in the Phantom/Jaguar/Tornado era. The various "take off strips" you mention are the original taxiways that connected all the dispersals. The "Harrier turning point" you mention is just one such dispersal at the end of a long taxiway. They were all numbered. The turning point was pan 61. The area you said might have been a Harrier hide was pan 58 and was used as the carpark for squadron personnel. In the 1970's, HAS's were constructed on about 50% of the pans. On the II (AC) Sqn site, the HAS's were built on pan's 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 62, 64 & 65. In the Jaguar era, there was an engine running detuner built on pan 65 for carrying out engine ground runs. This was dismantled in the Tornado era. A new Tornado detuner was built on the NW sector of the airfield. You mention the Harrier GR3 several times but by 1992 when the Harriers moved into Laarbruch, They would have been flying the Harrier GR5 and later the GR7
Spent days and days around that area as kids in summer holidays. C1985/87. We used to camp on a flat area on the opposite side of the railway bed to the springs. That was our water source. The two smaller tunnels where accessible but a bit of rubble at the entrance to what we called mile tunnel. No torches, just the light from the ventilation shafts, which meant most of it was in darkness! We used to lay in the long grass and sun on the side of the cutting above sugarloaf for a rest, thought we’d walked miles haha. We didn’t know it was called that. Then back home through spook wood!😂 Halcyon days.
We walked through Drewton tunnel in about 1998 which is eeire when your in the middle 1/2 a mile from each entrance. Just a spot of light in each direction. It was still an open portal and track bed at the west end but sure enough when we got to the East end we had to scale a fence and then plod through mud (not a sess pit) to then sneek past the farm to get back to a road to return. Good fun.
