soothill

Soothill tunnel is the only tunnel along the 4 1/2 mile spur, between Batley & Beeston junction via Woodkirk the tunnel is 659 yds long running from west to east runs beneath Quarry lane. The west portal lies in a step cutting with a retaining wall, both made of stone & in average condition the...

December 2025 Visited with @Mr Budge on a grand tour of Yaaaaaaarkshire tunnels, this being our fourth success of the day after Lee Bank, Clayton, and Greenside — confidence levels high, common sense rapidly declining. We rocked up at the tunnel portal and quickly found our way inside...

Soothill Tunnel ] Authorised by an Act of 1881, the Great Northern's 4¾-mile connection between Batley and Beeston Junction, on the Leeds branch of the East Coast Main Line, opened for goods traffic in July 1890, with passenger services inaugurated a month later. In civil engineering...

Soothill (Woodkirk) Tunnel: Opened: 1890 Closed: 1953 659 Yards long. The Great Northern's 4¾ mile connection between Batley and Beeston Junction, on the Leeds branch of the East Coast Main Line, opened for goods traffic in July 1890, with passenger services introduced a month later. The...

Soothill Tunnel - 659yards. Great Northern’s branch line between Beeston Junction and Batley, on the Leeds spur of the ECML (East Coast Mainline) opened to freight traffic in July 1890 with passenger traffic commencing in August of that year, The route required a tunnel under Woodkirk woodlands...