Thackley tunnel - November, 2011

[mr beardy]

Visited with Mr batz and Mr nitestalker

I had a bit of a battery fail towards the end of the explore/fun.

Info nicked of wiki
Thackley tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Airedale Line from Leeds to Shipley then on to Bradford or Skipton. Built in 1844/5[citation needed], the tunnel is approximately 1,300 yards (1,200 m) long and cut through the prominent Thackley Hill to reduce travel time. The contractor chosen to build the Tunnel was James Bray, an iron and brass founder from Leeds who later contracted the construction of the Bramhope Tunnel on the Leeds to Thirsk main line.
Originally there was just one Tunnel bore but in 1900 the line was increased to four tracks and a second tunnel bore was built, one carrying the Fast lines from Leeds and the other the Slow lines. The Southern tunnel was closed in 1968 co-inciding with the final closure of the Great Northern Branch Line from Shipley to Laisterdyke via Idle and Thackley. At the Western mouth of the Tunnel stood the original Idle station (albeit closer to Thackley than Idle), which opened in 1847 and closed the following year in 1848.

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More to come from the other two

[coops]

Good work mate ...is this open or is it a dreaded climb over pronged fence ?

[mr beardy]

see the whitish square on bottom of the fence on my pic ? that's the way in.

[BadBatz]

Sweeeeet! Once I get my Uni work out of the way, I'll add mine!

[MJS]

third pic looks well apocalyptic, good shiz