This is my first report so i hope i do OK also i have to say sorry for any spellings as i am dyslexic but i will try my best with spell checker.
Finnaly made it to the Benniworth Tunnel today although everything seemed to be fighting to stop us.
So firstly we got very lost and ended up on the wrong side of the small road tunnel which had been blocked off by barbed wire and storage (and we had made it into the blocked off side from a different point so were stuck on the supposedly secure side) then after finding our way out of that field and onto the road again we found our way into the correct field and made our way to the tunnel. the heavens decided it was time to open and we were now also getting very wet. we finally made it to the tunnel entrance where i went to take my first picture of the day and found that somehow ide lost my camera memory card so apologises all pictures were taken on my phone.
So the Benniworth tunnel is one of two tunnels taht was on the Louth to Bardney line of the GLR the rural lines around Lincolnshire have always interested me since a child as parts of the railway near Grimsby are now roads (Peaks Parkway Grimsby) and some Parts have been restored (Lincolnshire wolds Railway) but the parts past Louth seem to of gone aside form some scaring to the landscape if you know where to look.
There are actually two tunnels that are still on the Louth to Bardney line one is the longer over 900- yards Withcall tunnel which i am planning on visiting at some point but i believe it is home to 3 different colony of bats some of them rare so there is full metal doors at each ends with access big enough for the bats to enter and exit so if this is correct there is no access past the tunnel entrances. The tunnel we visited today was Benniworth Tunnel better know as High Street Tunnel which was an active railway tunnel between the years of 1874 to 1956 for passengers and up to 1960 for goods the tunnels remain standing to this day and are a testament to their design and build they even have main roads crossing over them with heavy traffic daily.
Tunnel Entrance
Pulleys along tunnel wall (i believe the original points and stop signs etc were cable driven and these would of houses the cables)
Amazing roof design
Refuge 1 of 3
Refuge 2 of 3
Refuge 3 of 3
Drainage system down one side of tunnel
Distance and Closest exit markers
View from far end back into tunnel
i don't know what these are or could of been all down the tunnel there are large patches of black bricks like this that seem different from the surrounding bricks if anyone know what the could be please feel free to enlighten me..
Another Much bigger black patch
Finnaly made it to the Benniworth Tunnel today although everything seemed to be fighting to stop us.
So firstly we got very lost and ended up on the wrong side of the small road tunnel which had been blocked off by barbed wire and storage (and we had made it into the blocked off side from a different point so were stuck on the supposedly secure side) then after finding our way out of that field and onto the road again we found our way into the correct field and made our way to the tunnel. the heavens decided it was time to open and we were now also getting very wet. we finally made it to the tunnel entrance where i went to take my first picture of the day and found that somehow ide lost my camera memory card so apologises all pictures were taken on my phone.
So the Benniworth tunnel is one of two tunnels taht was on the Louth to Bardney line of the GLR the rural lines around Lincolnshire have always interested me since a child as parts of the railway near Grimsby are now roads (Peaks Parkway Grimsby) and some Parts have been restored (Lincolnshire wolds Railway) but the parts past Louth seem to of gone aside form some scaring to the landscape if you know where to look.
There are actually two tunnels that are still on the Louth to Bardney line one is the longer over 900- yards Withcall tunnel which i am planning on visiting at some point but i believe it is home to 3 different colony of bats some of them rare so there is full metal doors at each ends with access big enough for the bats to enter and exit so if this is correct there is no access past the tunnel entrances. The tunnel we visited today was Benniworth Tunnel better know as High Street Tunnel which was an active railway tunnel between the years of 1874 to 1956 for passengers and up to 1960 for goods the tunnels remain standing to this day and are a testament to their design and build they even have main roads crossing over them with heavy traffic daily.
Tunnel Entrance
Pulleys along tunnel wall (i believe the original points and stop signs etc were cable driven and these would of houses the cables)
Amazing roof design
Refuge 1 of 3
Refuge 2 of 3
Refuge 3 of 3
Drainage system down one side of tunnel
Distance and Closest exit markers
View from far end back into tunnel
i don't know what these are or could of been all down the tunnel there are large patches of black bricks like this that seem different from the surrounding bricks if anyone know what the could be please feel free to enlighten me..
Another Much bigger black patch
