Clapham Deep Shelter London March 2011

[diehardlove]

Each tunnel consists of a pair of parallel tunnels 16 feet 6 inches (5.03 m) in diameter and 1,200 feet (370 m) long. Each tunnel is subdivided into two decks, and each shelter was designed to hold up to 8,000 people. It was planned that after the war the shelters would be used as part of new express tube lines paralleling parts of the existing Northern and Central Lines. Each tunnel is of a diameter much larger than that usually used for running tunnels, but smaller than that used for the platform tunnels, hence they were constructed at the stations that would have been bypassed on the high-speed lines. However, 16 ft running tunnels were used for the Northern City Line opened in 1904, since it had been intended to run main-line trains here (a plan not realised until 1976)

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[MJS]

'tis a sweet place this one! Good shizzle

[diehardlove]

Yeah its a good one the noise is crazy my favorite bit is hearing the trains up above.

[wevsky]

did you sign the book on the desk dhl..and for someone who in the mines said when i took pics i just went meh that'll do and came out good..Yours came out spot on mate !And i thought the tunnels where 1400 foot long? :)