I walked this tunnel back in 2002 , most of its length until i hit the water near the south portal..absolutely awesome. We also walked Clayton tunnel up to the brick wall. I'm sorry to see it getting worse since i moved away from Yorkshire. Thanks for uploading !!
I spent a lot of time in Queensbury tunnel between 1975 and 1980, when I was a research student in the Geophysics Department of Cambridge University. The tunnel was used for research into earth strain caused by tides and distant earthquakes. We had an array of strain meters and seismometers, including a long-baseline laser strainmeter, and there was a hut with recording equipment in which we sometimes slept. We'd drive to this in a transit van, dodging the heaps of rubble.
Excellent video i always look down to the tunnel entrance when i come over North Bridge and think what it would have been like to see it back in its glory days such a shame it is no longer in use
walked this tunnel so so meny times and when u get to the water 2 mates did not stop they got blow up boats and crossed it the **box as it was called now filled in and the water did not always tuch the roof just some times of the yr that was bak when u was aloud to b down station rd and do stuff like that
when we were kids we played in the station, the platfroms- ticket office - footbridges-signal boxes,etc were all intact just like the picture but the rails for the pit up the dailey fields were gone,3 of us walked the tunnels to both halifax and clayton before they removed the sleepers & rails.the good old days
Excellent Jape Chaps. Here's 2 more for you (I've not done them, but aware).
Mate from shooting club was stationed at an Anti-Aircraft Gun Battery in Adel Woods just up stairfoot lane past the church and on your left as you go up hill. I'm told there were big underground workings there - access? Dunno.
Next is up Sutton Bank on the left on the road to Helmsley. Now covered by a wooded area, bu just visible is a huge underground command centre.
My friend Lee and I explored this tunnel in its entirety when we were school kids. It's completely blocked up at the clayton end.
We also got about half way into longer tunnel in the other direction but you couldn't got any further as it was completely flooded (although you could see the entrance at the other end and some people at shool were talking about taking a boat down there to explore it fully).
Good to know it is still standing. Great childhood memories.
Brilliant... me and my brother did the whole tunnel back in 81/82.
Our tourches ran out quarter way though, and when we got to the end we were up to the bum in water, not only that but had to scale a very big slippy side.
Fantastic, Phil your a gem! I used to live in denholme, queensbury, and clayton, i know all the tunnels well and could,nt keep out.
I remember seeing my last train at the inverted arches north of doe park tunnel, i think the engine was either a standard type 4 or even a WD, anyway it was the end as it was dragging away track panels on bolster wagons which had been lifted with a 22RB which is also consigned to history no doubt.
it appears to me these people entered this tunnel illegally ,very foolhardy in its present state!if i had a house above this tunnel i would be extremely concerned!
I used to work for the over ground railway, southern, whenever i had to go track walking for whatever reason, you have to be carefull, especially so in a disused and very old tunnel, believe it or not, victorian tunnels are quite unstable if there not maintained constantly.
Hi Andy. Glad you made it at last. Usually It' around a mile into te tunnel before you hit the water line. The banging you can hera is coming from the earth moving machinery at the Strines cutting end. We heard the whine of generators when we were down there. It was very lousd and sounded to be inside the tunnel at times.
Ha ha. Yes I've been keepin an eye ion the portal pics over the last few months. I 've seen the bars gradually been played with. I guessed it wouldn't be long till it happened. Thank for the news!
this is probabaly a daft question but do you guys have permition to go on these missions from some useless health and safty people or do you just break in? ha-ha
That video is what we yanks call 'Full of WIN!' I'm a bit of a tunnel rat myself, and they are almost always wet, but what on earth caused the water to pool up like that? Was a dam constructed after its abandonment? It's also hard to tell from the angle, but is that narrow gauge or standard track? In any case, GREAT video, thanks for sharing!
Phil, Sam & team... super impressed as always with the quality of your work. Would love to become a member of the team and join you on various joints.... The adel bomb shelter sounds like a great place to go!
Hi MAUL if you look at my profile or links page there's a link to a load of pics there.
Hi Ingle i'm not so sure it's in that good nick when you've been in a few. I'd say it's in a pretty bad condition myself. If you go further in there's lots of brick roof collapse & the tunnel suffers from compresion due to an earth fault above!
Went a few hundred yards in to this tunnel with a friend (Jan/2006). Its amazing to see how good a condition its in! The water has got deeper at the Halifax end. Back then you could see the top 3-4 ft of the tunnel mouth.
I'm not suprised you missed the track as it's only a small section & of course it's pitch black in there so if you didn't have the torch shining on that spot you'd easily miss it. I'd hurry up & have one last look while you can. You can't get all the way through the tunnel these days due to the flooding!
Went inside this tunnel when I was teenager with the group of friends in 1990. One of them carry the car battery on their back for use the more powerful halegon light. I was suprised to see the railtrack on video as I could not find it anywhere inside the tunnel. The air in the tunnel was very light, make you more paranoid e.g. worried about the train might come or the door being locked, left us inside the tunnel.
Hard to say what the tempreture was... Deffinately a LOT colder than outside. I only had a tee shirt on & wished i'd not left my jacket with the other stuff near the tunnel entrance put it that way :-/
I walked this tunnel back in 2002 , most of its length until i hit the water near the south portal..absolutely awesome. We also walked Clayton tunnel up to the brick wall. I'm sorry to see it getting worse since i moved away from Yorkshire. Thanks for uploading !!
Trapperjohn4077th 7 months ago
@Trapperjohn4077th I walked this tunnel too in 2008,went as far as the water,I got bollocked afterwards.
iloveamericans1 1 month ago
I spent a lot of time in Queensbury tunnel between 1975 and 1980, when I was a research student in the Geophysics Department of Cambridge University. The tunnel was used for research into earth strain caused by tides and distant earthquakes. We had an array of strain meters and seismometers, including a long-baseline laser strainmeter, and there was a hut with recording equipment in which we sometimes slept. We'd drive to this in a transit van, dodging the heaps of rubble.
0DavidYoung0 1 year ago
great video!
iksproduction 1 year ago
Excellent video i always look down to the tunnel entrance when i come over North Bridge and think what it would have been like to see it back in its glory days such a shame it is no longer in use
poolmatt1 1 year ago
wanna go in there. but its been locked up now.
dongirdlestone 1 year ago
walked this tunnel so so meny times and when u get to the water 2 mates did not stop they got blow up boats and crossed it the **box as it was called now filled in and the water did not always tuch the roof just some times of the yr that was bak when u was aloud to b down station rd and do stuff like that
nickg2k5 1 year ago
what is the soundtrack
beararms2 1 year ago
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redderz1 2 years ago
Great vid! The flooded opening at the Halifax end is known locally as Gower Gorge, after a company that has a factory adjacent to it.
Forkyped 2 years ago
Brilliant! -excellent tour..
albionreiver2 2 years ago
when we were kids we played in the station, the platfroms- ticket office - footbridges-signal boxes,etc were all intact just like the picture but the rails for the pit up the dailey fields were gone,3 of us walked the tunnels to both halifax and clayton before they removed the sleepers & rails.the good old days
salvageman46 2 years ago
next time try the water tunnel explore
mysteriousfruit 2 years ago
hi there great photos using using torches very interesting
fenlander001 2 years ago
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captainhaddock1 2 years ago
Its ashame they demolished the viaduct there !!
stevetetley 2 years ago
Excellent Jape Chaps. Here's 2 more for you (I've not done them, but aware).
Mate from shooting club was stationed at an Anti-Aircraft Gun Battery in Adel Woods just up stairfoot lane past the church and on your left as you go up hill. I'm told there were big underground workings there - access? Dunno.
Next is up Sutton Bank on the left on the road to Helmsley. Now covered by a wooded area, bu just visible is a huge underground command centre.
Dad therePark in the lead up to D-Day
fnslr308 2 years ago
My friend Lee and I explored this tunnel in its entirety when we were school kids. It's completely blocked up at the clayton end.
We also got about half way into longer tunnel in the other direction but you couldn't got any further as it was completely flooded (although you could see the entrance at the other end and some people at shool were talking about taking a boat down there to explore it fully).
Good to know it is still standing. Great childhood memories.
wrksbmjob 2 years ago
hey there, would love to know where the adel shelter is as i live in queenie and love exploration. great video by the way!
binzy1979 3 years ago
Fsacinating!
baxxterhp 3 years ago
i see a ghost just kidding great job love rthese kinds of tunnels
delta57y 3 years ago
Brilliant... me and my brother did the whole tunnel back in 81/82.
Our tourches ran out quarter way though, and when we got to the end we were up to the bum in water, not only that but had to scale a very big slippy side.
I have a couple of pictures.
Paul
palyniam2008 3 years ago
Fantastic, Phil your a gem! I used to live in denholme, queensbury, and clayton, i know all the tunnels well and could,nt keep out.
I remember seeing my last train at the inverted arches north of doe park tunnel, i think the engine was either a standard type 4 or even a WD, anyway it was the end as it was dragging away track panels on bolster wagons which had been lifted with a 22RB which is also consigned to history no doubt.
keep up the good work phil. Tony
TONYJUD 3 years ago
Many many thanks for the kind words Tony.
I'm glad i could show you a place you'd never normally see,
Cheers!
philldavison 3 years ago
it appears to me these people entered this tunnel illegally ,very foolhardy in its present state!if i had a house above this tunnel i would be extremely concerned!
samthegreencat47 3 years ago
Don't be a complete boring arsehole Sam.
It's people like you who would have us never venture on to the moon or climb Everest because it's too risky.
Get real and get a life my friend!
philldavison 3 years ago
@philldavison Loved that comment!!
ButterflyRebellion1 1 year ago
@samthegreencat47 if i lived above that i would be more worried about the amount of water flowing in not the people
mrvikingdna 1 year ago
looks awesome.
iv recently taken photographs of the old queensbury line (25.11.08) the holmfield portal has gone :( due to the industrial estate extending.
ash.
asche1987 3 years ago
Interesting. I enjoyed that trip.
EvildeadCellar 3 years ago
What are you guy's looking at at about 1:50? Boxes?
DMBRECORDSUK 3 years ago
My uncle owns that land!
Ive never actually been in there..only gone up to the entrance.
jakec163 3 years ago
I used to work for the over ground railway, southern, whenever i had to go track walking for whatever reason, you have to be carefull, especially so in a disused and very old tunnel, believe it or not, victorian tunnels are quite unstable if there not maintained constantly.
8G00SE8 3 years ago
rats mice disgusting great video id go in that tunnel
delta57y 3 years ago
How interesting!!
Thanks guys.
mejaz98 3 years ago
I,ve been in it today,went as far as the water.Very scary when I could hear banging noise in there.
andrewbarrett42 3 years ago
Hi Andy. Glad you made it at last. Usually It' around a mile into te tunnel before you hit the water line. The banging you can hera is coming from the earth moving machinery at the Strines cutting end. We heard the whine of generators when we were down there. It was very lousd and sounded to be inside the tunnel at times.
philldavison 3 years ago
were abouts in hlaifx is the entrance
superrat2007 3 years ago
we did about a mile then water started deepening.
queenydale 3 years ago
dale i was wiv u lol i can remember tht
cally2518 3 years ago
Has the water level gone down?
Moschops42 3 years ago
you can go in here again the bars on the entrance have been snaped i went in today
queenydale 3 years ago
Ha ha. Yes I've been keepin an eye ion the portal pics over the last few months. I 've seen the bars gradually been played with. I guessed it wouldn't be long till it happened. Thank for the news!
philldavison 3 years ago
Did you go in the tunnel,how far did you go?
andrewbarrett42 3 years ago
we got to the bit were it says 110 on the wall
cally2518 3 years ago
Brilliant work Phill & chums. Nicely soundtracked too... I appreciated the last minute and a half to let the tune play out in pitch blackness!
boo66 3 years ago
I love exploring old railway tunnels.
andrewbarrett42 3 years ago
Excellent that!!!! would love to go on some tours!!
albionreiver 4 years ago
this is probabaly a daft question but do you guys have permition to go on these missions from some useless health and safty people or do you just break in? ha-ha
stevewoodhead 4 years ago
bear in mind past collapses and the recent quake. Take extra precautions if you go!
gabornvalorden 4 years ago
New bars have been fitted over the entrance.. It's a no go again for the time bieng..
philldavison 4 years ago
I want to go there,you can walk through it?
andrewbarrett42 4 years ago
That was so good, i'm going to go do it myself next Sunday. TOP WORK!
DirtyJohn 4 years ago
Thanks for the comments guys & J.
philldavison 4 years ago
Great video:)
Jacquie
lant70 4 years ago
cool video, interesting cos i live in queenie
jezleerelt 4 years ago
the graffiti on the wall. . . . me and my mates did that ages ago!!!!
saxorule 4 years ago 2
Top work chaps!
boo66 4 years ago
wierd to think that runs under my house lol
mradamwat 4 years ago
That video is what we yanks call 'Full of WIN!' I'm a bit of a tunnel rat myself, and they are almost always wet, but what on earth caused the water to pool up like that? Was a dam constructed after its abandonment? It's also hard to tell from the angle, but is that narrow gauge or standard track? In any case, GREAT video, thanks for sharing!
thenekom 4 years ago
Bantams playing away today (Ovenden Park)?
Strines farm near the cutting edge of Picture This
robertbatty 4 years ago
ecellent video and pics -well done
headyanddeb 4 years ago
ever get tempted to go back with scuba gear?!
gabornvalorden 4 years ago
Phil, Sam & team... super impressed as always with the quality of your work. Would love to become a member of the team and join you on various joints.... The adel bomb shelter sounds like a great place to go!
Gunhappyhippy 4 years ago
Hi MAUL if you look at my profile or links page there's a link to a load of pics there.
Hi Ingle i'm not so sure it's in that good nick when you've been in a few. I'd say it's in a pretty bad condition myself. If you go further in there's lots of brick roof collapse & the tunnel suffers from compresion due to an earth fault above!
philldavison 4 years ago
Went a few hundred yards in to this tunnel with a friend (Jan/2006). Its amazing to see how good a condition its in! The water has got deeper at the Halifax end. Back then you could see the top 3-4 ft of the tunnel mouth.
ingle99 4 years ago
I'd love to see a link to the full-size images! cool video.
MAUL0r1 4 years ago
gret vid
signalnorth 4 years ago
Csilla!!!! HELLO!!! :-)
philldavison 4 years ago
Many Congratulations!!! 1 for the exlploration, 2 for the PICTURES, 3 for the movie, 4 on the teamwork!!! you must be GREAT people :)
csillanemes 4 years ago
I'm not suprised you missed the track as it's only a small section & of course it's pitch black in there so if you didn't have the torch shining on that spot you'd easily miss it. I'd hurry up & have one last look while you can. You can't get all the way through the tunnel these days due to the flooding!
philldavison 4 years ago
Went inside this tunnel when I was teenager with the group of friends in 1990. One of them carry the car battery on their back for use the more powerful halegon light. I was suprised to see the railtrack on video as I could not find it anywhere inside the tunnel. The air in the tunnel was very light, make you more paranoid e.g. worried about the train might come or the door being locked, left us inside the tunnel.
I would love to go inside the tunnel again.
adzbird 4 years ago
hey do you know about adel bomb shelter i been inside it has many tunnels and floors. youd like it interesting place
antimasonic 4 years ago
fascinating video mate what sort of teperature was it down there?
thanxx 4 years ago
Hard to say what the tempreture was... Deffinately a LOT colder than outside. I only had a tee shirt on & wished i'd not left my jacket with the other stuff near the tunnel entrance put it that way :-/
philldavison 4 years ago
Thanks jjonine
philldavison 4 years ago
Good work very interesting
jjonine1 4 years ago