Newcastle's Victoria Tunnel

The Victoria Tunnel was built as a subterranean wagonway to take coal from the former site of the Spital Tongues Colliery to Newcastle Quay (near the Glasshouse Bridge in Byker). The tunnel was cut through clay and is constructed using base courses of stone upon which an inverted brick arch was built. The loaded wagons descended the incline of the tunnel under their own weight and were drawn back to the colliery by a wire rope attached to a stationary engine. During the Second World War the tunnel was converted for use as an air raid shelter with wooden benches and bunks installed, as well as chemical toilets, anti-blast baffles, lime washed walls and a number of new entrances. At some point an 800 metre section of the tunnel (between Ellison Place and Queen Victoria Road) was converted into a sewer to replace the Pandon Sewer. The tunnel is 2.4 kilometres in length with a maximum depth of 26 metres and drops approximately 67.5 metres from top to bottom. It remains largely intact.

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[newcastlemofo]

the good ol cully

[ILuvNUFC]

It's not the Cully, but very close to it.

[ILuvNUFC]

I do know of a few in Newcastle, do you wish to tell me more about what ones you know?

[Owentheguitarist666]

GREAT STUFF

and bloody hell i knew there was a tunnel lol

well i do now lol

[ILuvNUFC]

I went through a section of it a couple of years back. It is due to re-open some time this year I think.

[TheYazoo321]

half of the tunnel is blocked off coz its being used to carry the sewage from the civic!

[digdugy22]

its not digduggy22 its his niece vicky (its my tunnel!) i went thr today on my school trip woah it's cool ppl but i did not go to far in coz we did not have time and thr is a drop thr and thr is a corridoor and it good my teatcher played a sound of the waggons comeing down the corridoor and thr was a person died down thr coz they used that for the world war 2 to hide from boms

[kopynd]

I a remeber the cully, find an empty paint pot, set fire to it, and use it as a torch,what an adventure

[punkrockcassette]

very nice!

[emmalaffey]

i used to work on the quayside in a restaurant more than likely everyone has eaten in...there is an entrance to a tunnel there but is blocked off quite a way up... apparently it went from grays monument to the quaside... theres also a tunnel in a hairdressers behind i found out about from someone who i used to work with elsewhere and he told me they followed it down and found gallows there, i dont believe this part but would be good to go down there and find out if he was lieing or not.

[alexmurta]

i would love to explore some can anyone pm me the entrances to some

[1tomone111]

there's lot's of tunnel's, bunker's and calvert's in and around newcastle, including a five mile tunnel running from manor's down and along the river frount and back up to manor's. sawell as many other's!