The L.H.E.S go to hell & back (if you go down to the woods)

[Organgrinder1010]

"This is madness." Agreed. But happy you're willing to venture in anyway. Sorry sound disabled. Perhaps you could make future videos either without music [your original sounds and echoes are interesting enough] or with music on one channel only, voices and natural sounds on another. Thanks!

[RyanJWN]

I live near here!

[loyndsy]

looks like something from the Titanic. Great video.You must visit the tunnels running through to Glen Farg in Perthshire. The line came up from Bridge of Earn following now the M90 Edinburgh Rd. and then turns left and tunnels through the hill to the glen and the old Edinburgh rd.

[dictionar1]

well done lads!

[20vtechnik]

Great work and awsome pics!

bonus on the jackets.

That's 6 stars in my book!

[VietnamVegan]

tunnel love!they only get deeper and more creepy!

[thenekom]

Big fan of abandoned railroad tunnels from the states here. Your videos, as we yanks would say, own your face. In your own language, ripping good stuff! 5 stars!

[andrewbarrett42]

Do you have many abandoned railway tunnels in the US?we have lots here.

[thenekom]

Oh we have quite a few in these parts, there are several dozen in Pennsylvania and West Virginia alone. Some are abandoned, a few have collapsed, some found a new use carrying roads or bicycle trails. I've personally visited over a half dozen of them.

[g45uk2]

haha, i remember me and some mates going in that tunnel when i was about 13

[56Model30]

Impressive video. A group of us walked through the tunnel from the Leeds End to Birstall in the early 1970's. I have no recollection of the refuge - the tunnel wasn't flooded then and we managed it with a couple of small hand torches. Well done!

[MILLERRG02]

It's a right trekk went fru it last sat with a couple of mates is fukkin well dark in there mayte be sure to take a big light.

And some parts the orange mud goes up you your waist.

[peterhatton13]

That was really great,,I could watch stuff like that all day.

[reynardbizzar]

Awesome man ,absolutely awesome.Thanks for posting.

[cactusmelba]

brill!

the light painting REALLY pays off in this tunnel matey, seen 'em before but still amazes me now how the iron colouring comes out so well.. and the shot under the air shaft - breathtaking. well done you guys, just discovered these videos, excellent work!

[recnepsmaharg]

This is Great I've often stood just looking down into the mess wondering how far that tunnel went. I never thought it went all the way through to the M62/M621.

[EvildeadCellar]

They should open it up again. Be great for a short cut to Beeston.

[ELAINESTEVEPENNY]

agh its the scenes from my nightmares as a child aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[albionreiver]

Any organised railway tunnel tours would sell out im sure!! theres plenty of really historical ones in liverpool towards the docks -ive read about, -anybody done them???

[YORKIE230557]

JOHNSCOUGH-DICKO8899-MILLERRGO­2-i too used to venture into spring wood&deanwood when i was a kid.i used to live in morley&moved to gildersome when i was 6 in 1963,i remember the last steam train going thru this tunnel-it used to come out at gildersome crossroads(which is now gildersome roundabout)at morley top station.me&my mates used to spend most of our school holidays venturing springwood&deanwood-those were the days when you could walk thru a wood ALONE without worry.reminising like mad

[kidstl]

i wouldnt do this unless all were armed with some sort of weapon and each team member was able to fight hand to hand if needed...dont know what or who you may encounter...friend of mine "hobo"ed with a friend and ran across some "unfriendly" characters, until they was convinced that it be to their best intrest to just walk away from my friends, which they did...also you dont know what type of toxic sh1t could have been dump down there, stay on the train tracks, safer and cleaner !

[andrewbarrett42]

Excellent video.

[bemyserene]

i want to join you next time you go.

how do i join your posse?

i live in meanwood &take a keen interest in local history &all that.

plus my photgrapher friend is mad up for it, too.

any advise &information would be greatly appreciated =]

[andrewbarrett42]

All disused tunnels should be opened up and allow people to walk through them.

[philldavison]

Thanks Albion. cheers!

[albionreiver]

You lads really need a pat on the back!!

I used to walk water tunnels etc as a kid, always wanted to do Standedge tunnel -i bet ive spelt it wrong again!! -John from Huddersfield

[briggslr02]

im off to momoz does it take long to get there

[philldavison]

Depends were you going mate?

[philldavison]

This one is blocked to support the M621 overhead. Other tunnels are filled in to forget about them. Nil maintenance needed if they can't get in lol. very convenient.

[andrewbarrett42]

Why do they block old railway tunnels?

[Jacobus180670]

you humorous crackpot!

[PBRJOHN684]

hI guys freeky photo's I do the paranormal side my self try to diprove it but i can't disprove the the shadow at 5:44 but the one of the face could it be a reflection on the damp walls and the lighting?

PBRJOHN684

[philldavison]

Hi John.. yes it would be great to get ghost images in an old railway tunnel.. I think the shadow was more camera trickery tho.. The shadow was me stood on a 20' second long exposure shot for only 10 seconds.. The camera doesn't record my full blown image if you do that hence the shadow. I think the face was an unitentional shot i just happened to knock the camera and it caught some ones torches and it ended up like that.. It would have been good to get genuine stuff tho. cheers.

[PBRJOHN684]

Yeh but freaky though Orbs are the best form of parranormal activity!) the best way to get them is to use any digital camera.

Regards John

[philldavison]

Yeah i a lot of those orbs with flash photos.. It's only dust particles illuminated in my shots though!!

[PBRJOHN684]

If you look close at others and you can see a see through centre then that is an orb or what we call a light enonamally

John

[DirtyJohn]

Three facts for you.

1. Orbs are dust and particles, even insects. They are nothing paranormal, admit it, get over it, move on. Flash + dust = orb. Woooooooo call Scooby flippin Do, or Yvette as she is also known. There are fully grown adults who are into this nonesense, it baffles me honestly it does.

2. If ghosts existed, they wouldn't want to hang about down in Gildersome tunnel. As you can see, it's orrid.

3. That was another excellent exploration from the LHES, well done.

[philldavison]

Thanks guys!

[urbanlincs]

Nice one guys!

[MILLERRG02]

yh it in deanwoods keep going through past river and youl come to it ( off asquith avenue i used to go when i was a lad )

[philldavison]

Thanks for all the great compliments guys!

Glad you can take a look at these places 10pin... there's plenty more to see yet :-)

[10pinbowling]

I have never known anything like this....absolutely fantastic....i woudnt mind venturing out with you guys, i love stuff like this..keep doing your amazing work..The ABC cinema in Wakefield, what a marvelous job you did taking pictures...thank you for keeping places alive and in our momories

[89001avocet]

That's absolutely awesome!

Great job there guys, shame the whole thing is never going to see a train again! :-(

[thenekom]

I love the caption "THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA". hehe, so true, and yet it's just impossible to resist, isn't it? Great video!

[dicko8899]

Nice to see this vid, i only live 5mins away in Morley, and used to go down there as a kid. allways 2 swamped to venture down to the gate, but now i know whats behind that huge wall! Thanks

Very fond mems of that place!

[philldavison]

Cheers Mortun.. Hey it's cool to rock... cheers!

Thanks Jonsclough... I've sent you a message! Cheers!

[jonsclough]

nice one mate, we went down there as kids as i only live 5 mins away from there, we got to the first ventilation shaft but the water was too deep to continue, 15 years later i walked it again (june2004)and got all the way through to marker 25. those are great photos, by the way, gomersall tunnel is a good one to walk if you prefer to keep your feet dry! great vid anyway mate, thanks for postng.

[morturn]

You guys rock, super work!!!!!!!

[philldavison]

We needed a boat when we went Lexcast.. The tunnel was flooded for half a mile at LEAST a foot deep.. It was hard work mate!

[Lexcast]

Fantastic! Me and a mate really got interested in Gildersome Tunnel when we were at school, sadly at least 10 years after the west end had been bricked up. Found the east end but either were too chicken to go in, or the water was almost covering the entrance gate; you'd have needed a boat to go down up it then!

[DaveinLeeds]

Back in 1985 I took a photo of the Birstall-end portal (west?), sealed with red bricks. About 10 years later my office relocated to the Centre 27 Business Park and a few years after that attempted to find the same portal during my lunch hour. Alas, no trace of it - presumable buried under the M62/M621.

[allwight01527]

Loved it superb.

[philldavison]

Cheers Dave... Have you any ideas were you'd like us to go mate?

[g7waw]

hi Brilliant photos and love the colours can't wait for the next one. David

[valentine199]

The Best So Far Excellent Video Congratulations To All Members Of The LHES Wife Loves the Teddy Bears

[philldavison]

Nice one Valentine. Thanks for the compliments. Kind regards to the wife!

[philldavison]

thanks Digital :-)

[Digitalpiracy]

Superb work guys - good to see you're getting even better at A/V editing and at spelling too ;-)

[philldavison]

Nice one Grimsby.. I like the picnic idea... I tell you what we never ventured in there the mud was knee deep. what a mess it is inside. Long exposure pictures don't often show had bad it is i feel. I don't suppose there's any possible access to the Bolsover then? I'm not into too much digging although we do like a challenge :-)

[grimsbytownhall]

A sublime bash! Speechless. Bolsover Tunnel (abouth the same length as Gildersome) has been buried for 56 years. Fancy that lads?

P.S. We actually managed to have a picnic stop in one of Catesby Tunnel's bothies in 2004.

[thanxx]

EXCELLENT!.

[philldavison]

Yes i,ve been speaking to Graham Bickerdicke from the 'forgotten relics' website and he says the same thing as you that it was probably a track gangs bothay.. I've only ever heard of one person getting in here in the mid 90's but there's very little info and no pictures at all to be found on the net.

[Moodster020]

Just to add,

At 5:00 & 5:12, is that some sort of messhut for the Platelayers/Signalmen? Read somewere that the Old Woodhead tunnels in the Peak District had a messhut built into the tunnel wall halfway along their length.

[philldavison]

I told you i could see that bit working out nice.. Don't we just love big Ted? YEAH!!

[dandankfcc]

great stuff...

[samhirst87]

Excellent Editing phill! This video is excellent! I couldnt stop laughing at the teddy bears picnic!

[warwise]

cool :o

[edgey2001]

Well done Phil and co, fascinating explore as usual.

[philldavison]

Thats my boys! Get in there!

[ackers72]

PMSL i love the thames tv ident music at the start!!!!

[CandyTyrrell]

you guys are still crazy :-)

[philldavison]

Thankyou Csilla. kind words as always lol :-)

A right state is an understatment Mooodster it's REALLY BAD in there! Cheers :-)

[csillanemes]

So many excelent ideas in this video...Congratulations for the directing!! (My fav part is between sec 1:50 to 2:10 this is the final of the prelude..very professional!)

[Moodster020]

Fookin hell, That's in some state that is. Top stuff, bet you're becoming like Indiana Jones & the temple of Doom(or should that be Tunnel of Doom?) with these explorations!.

Keep it up!