Preston Brook Culvert/M56 Drain - Runcorn - June 2011 -

[georgie]

recent information regarding me and kevsy21's previous explore of preston book http://www.urbexforums.co.uk/showthread.php/9869-Preston-Brook-Drain-Runcorn-sep-2010 took me back here to see what lied further upstream.

explored solo

after following the brook for a while i was met with a 2 way tunnel system,with the right leading under the bridgewater canal, and the left bending off with a rushing water echoing from inside.
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9659.jpg

i decided to take the right side first under the canal
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9881.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9872.jpg

leading me out below a huge concrete wall
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9928.jpg

the brook then flowed under railway tracks
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9921.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9889.jpg

stopping for a people pic
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9918.jpg

next was 2 large tunnels which went under the M56 motorway
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9917.jpg

the left side was the one that had the most water flowing through it
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9896.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9895.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9902.jpg

end of the line, i wasnt sure if it went any further underground the path ahead was overgrown with various shrubbery so i called it a day and decided to walk down the other tunnel and go check out the left side of the original tunnel entrance
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9904.jpg

the other side was a bit dryer until you got to the end
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9907.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9908.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9914.jpg

this is the left side of where i first started out when i took the right side
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9935.jpg

there was a rush of water which got me excited, a stair chamber maybe?...nahh after a short stoop it was just a pipe pissing water down from above...and a dead end
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9938.jpg

which led into some inspection chamber
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh142/fortboyardo/M56/DSCF9941.jpg

it aint much i know but every hole is a goal

thanks to mickey78 for the recent info regarding this brook

[MJS]

Noooooiiice. Some good'ns in there old chum