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Report - Cadeby Tunnel, Conisbrough, August 2015

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JaneEyre

The clumsiest explorer in Yorkshire!
28DL Full Member
So this was a little tunnel we have wondered about in a few times and decided to use it to practice with the new camera. It is about 200m long (though from the way Acid and Rincewind laugh at my distance capabilities I had to google this to check haha) with a curve in the middle.

The eastern portal comes out in a quarry and the portal itself was grade II listed on the 26th of November 1987 (and is pretty) and the western portal has ankle high sludge and water (to be expected as it is down a slope to get in). Both have a few tyres and shoes and stuff thrown in for good measure.

The tunnel was built in 1849 for the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway Company. The head engineer was Charles Bartholomew of the River Don Company. It conisists of Gritstone voussoirs and rock-faced sandstone walling. Quoined buttresses flank a horseshoe arch with rustication below the impost band and roll-moulded hoodmould. Roll-moulded cornice breaks forward over the buttresses; blocking course steps up at centre. The whole this is brick lined and has good airflow and is solid under foot once you get in there.

The line was opened on 10th November 1849 and linked the Midland and Great Northern networks; after 1864 it became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway which itself became the Great Central Railway in 1897.

One of the arches holds a small token/homage to "The Mexbrough Ragger"; a local, young gypsy girl who had cut through the tunnels to sell either water or rags to the workers on the other side. She is said to have stepped into the central arch when a train passed but dropped what she was carrying and when she bent down to quickly grab it, she was hit by a train. The doll left there has been there for many years and is a bloody strange site if you don't see it right at first.

So here are some photos, the first few times I visited with @Rincewind and my sister, the last visit we also had the pleasure of @ACID- REFLUX too (thanks for the torch loan!)

Eastern Portal

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Inside

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Admit it, who went down in loafers?

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Baby Doll

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Rincewind

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Acid's Shadow

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Moo nearly falling over in mud

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Thanks for the nosey guys!

Lots of love

JE xx
 

ACID- REFLUX

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Nicely done @JaneEyre seems you absorbed your lesson on light painting pretty well ;)

I'll give you a B+

Not sure about the other student though, @Rincewind didn't believe his tutor so I can only give him a C- lol

Nice to meet up with you again and the rest of the family for a much around the woods ;) even though I could have driven to Birmingham in the time it took me to track you down lol

Nice shadow ;)
 

WildBoyz

Is this the future?
28DL Full Member
Very nicely lit indeed :thumb

What are you doing in the last photo lol? (Assuming that's you).
 

JaneEyre

The clumsiest explorer in Yorkshire!
28DL Full Member
Well hello there, sorry if this seems rude but you might want to pay attention to forum etiquette before asking for details.

Well firstly, posting an introduction to yourself on the new members thread rather than just diving in asking for details might have been a nice idea.

Secondly, if you look at local maps and google/wikimapea it you will find the details, I am not going to tell you outright on an open forum.

Thirdly, you won't find much support for ghost hunters here, it isn't that kind of forum.

Finally, next time you want details, at least give a girl a compliment on her photos first we are simple creatures who like to be told we take nice photos

much love, sorry to be blunt

JE xxx
 

stranton

subterranean explorer
Regular User
at least give a girl a compliment on her photos first we are simple creatures who like to be told we take nice photos

Won't happen unless your part of the click,
they criticise & ruin your threads.

nice tunnel & photographs :thumb
 

JaneEyre

The clumsiest explorer in Yorkshire!
28DL Full Member
Won't happen unless your part of the click,
they criticise & ruin your threads.

nice tunnel & photographs :thumb

Thanks, and I don't think it is about cliques, no one seems to be mean tlor unfairly critical to me, no idea why but I am happy either way
 
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