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View this post on Instagram Western portals of Woodhead railway tunnel. These tunnels once carried trains under the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield.⛰️ 🚇 The puzzling rock seen here to the side of the tunnels has signs of a drill/boring machine being used on it, not sure why 🤔 . The first tunnel (middle tunnel here) opened in 1845 although enough land had been bought to build a second if needed and 25 crosslinks were built to aid construction of the second which opened just to the north in 1852. . Parts of the tunnel pass through shale and poorer quality sandstone caused ongoing issues and expense and when work to electrify the line was got underway (initial work was done before WW2) it was eventually decided that building a new tunnel would be a better idea. The new tunnel (nearest here) replaced the old tunnels in 1954, meaning an end to the choking claustrophobic conditions in the small poorly ventilated old tunnels. 🏭 Passenger services were withdrawn in 1970 (although originally the Hope Valley line to the south had been identified for closure) and with the demise of Yorkshire coal mines and resultant loss of coal trains the tunnel was closed in 1981 less than thirty years after it was built. .⛏️ In 1969 national grid laid 400,000 volt cables through the second tunnel (in better condition than the first which was not fully lined along its length) and destroyed the decorative castellations on the tunnel entrances, the original station which had similar decorative features was demolished in the 1950s to accommodate the alignment for the new tunnel. 🏰 In 2008 the electricity cables were moved to the new tunnel and in 2016 with completion of the work the old tunnels were sealed with concrete. The third B&W photo (cropped) is copyright Ben Brooksbank and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en #woodheadtunnel #woodhead #woodheadtunnels #woodheadtunnel #longdendalevalley #abandonedrailway #longdendaletrail #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark A post shared by John | Exploration and history (@merrytrek) on Oct 26, 2019 at 9:56am PDT
Western portals of Woodhead railway tunnel. These tunnels once carried trains under the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield.⛰️ 🚇 The puzzling rock seen here to the side of the tunnels has signs of a drill/boring machine being used on it, not sure why 🤔 . The first tunnel (middle tunnel here) opened in 1845 although enough land had been bought to build a second if needed and 25 crosslinks were built to aid construction of the second which opened just to the north in 1852. . Parts of the tunnel pass through shale and poorer quality sandstone caused ongoing issues and expense and when work to electrify the line was got underway (initial work was done before WW2) it was eventually decided that building a new tunnel would be a better idea. The new tunnel (nearest here) replaced the old tunnels in 1954, meaning an end to the choking claustrophobic conditions in the small poorly ventilated old tunnels. 🏭 Passenger services were withdrawn in 1970 (although originally the Hope Valley line to the south had been identified for closure) and with the demise of Yorkshire coal mines and resultant loss of coal trains the tunnel was closed in 1981 less than thirty years after it was built. .⛏️ In 1969 national grid laid 400,000 volt cables through the second tunnel (in better condition than the first which was not fully lined along its length) and destroyed the decorative castellations on the tunnel entrances, the original station which had similar decorative features was demolished in the 1950s to accommodate the alignment for the new tunnel. 🏰 In 2008 the electricity cables were moved to the new tunnel and in 2016 with completion of the work the old tunnels were sealed with concrete. The third B&W photo (cropped) is copyright Ben Brooksbank and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en #woodheadtunnel #woodhead #woodheadtunnels #woodheadtunnel #longdendalevalley #abandonedrailway #longdendaletrail #peakdistrict #peakdistrictnationalpark
A post shared by John | Exploration and history (@merrytrek) on Oct 26, 2019 at 9:56am PDT
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