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    Default [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    After a bit of prep for my first ever shot at UrbEx, me and my boyfriend (MrMeep on these forums) decided to have a shot at going upto Clayton Tunnel.

    Since we're fairly interested in trains and such, we thought it would be a good shout to go there. Both me and him did a fair bit of research, and it seems the Clayton line sort of made a triangle along with the Queensbury and Thornton one. The Clayton line heads down to Bradford town center, and if you get on a train to leeds, you can see a bricked up tunnel that is part of the Clayton line when you pull out of the interchange and go around the corner (Left hand side). And the other two parts of the line lead towards Halifax and Keighley.

    Here's a map to sort of picture what I mean...



    The last 'exploration' of the tunnel we could find was in 2009, so we were a bit unsure as to whether we would be able to get in or not. But we thought we'd have a go at it anyway. We started from the bottom of Clayton, so it was a fair trek to get up to the tunnels.





    The walk alone upto the tunnel was tiring enough, then we realized we had to go down a steep gradient. Sign lol. I'm gonna say it was about 45 degrees, and luckily, I'd brought a... small 20m rope, so that helped us down about 2/3rds of the hill. It was about 35 meters down.





    Seeing the iron door made us worry a bit, and unfortunately our predictions of the door being locked were right... it was locked with a 5 number combination lock x__x We did stand there for a good 10 or so minutes trying to guess obvious combinations, but we had no luck. We even did an optimistic, quick google on our phones to try see if we could get the combination off there, but nope. Quite gutted as I was looking forward to going into it, after having heard that it's supposedly haunted by two workers who died in the first shaft.



    So we clambered back up the hill. My boyfriend then suggested we try the Queensbury tunnel, which was nearby. It was surprisingly easy to find. There was this bridge not far from the Clayton Tunnel, and we decided to follow under it and try tracing where the tracks would go. We did come to a few things that accounted for the route we took.



    We found the entrance to the Queensbury tunnel, but it was a bit of an arse to get to. The ground all the way upto the entrance is flooded and thick with mud about 3-6 inches deep. Seeing this entrance also closed with a metal door/gate, we decided to just go upto the front of it for the sake of it. Can't really hurt in trying afterall.





    So, once we got upto it, after trying our best to avoid the awful mud, we found that this one was also locked with the exact same kind of lock. This entrance was vaguely more interesting though, as we could actually see into it through the gaps. It was kind of interesting, you could see all the way down and see the exit [I think it's 2 mile long?] but the camera wouldn't pick it up right.



    But yeah, I guess if anything, this report validates the fact that it is now pointless going to either Queensbury or Clayton tunnel... as they're both completely sealed off. Unless you like, y'know, looking at metal doors... then it's pretty fun.

    Photos were taken by MrMeep, of course.

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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Um..........


    Well done getting out there?

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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Quote Originally Posted by BadBatz View Post
    Um..........


    Well done getting out there?
    I know it's not exactly the best of posts... but at least it's concluding that they're now inaccessible. Which is an update in comparison to the last post I found about it, which was in 09?

    Either way, it was both mine and MrMeeps first UrbEx attempt. Soo...

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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Well done for getting out there......again. LOL

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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Get to midland you can't fail there
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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Quote Originally Posted by mr beardy View Post
    Get to midland you can't fail there

    Yup. Or Lund humphries. Or the warehouse on sticker lane. Or 3 or 4 other places.

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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Thackley Tunnel is doable. Get on it


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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Quote Originally Posted by BadBatz View Post
    Yup. Or Lund humphries. Or the warehouse on sticker lane. Or 3 or 4 other places.
    Lund Humphries... Wonder if they've fixed that gate after Ryan broke it....

    Indeed, well done for having a go! It's about the experience, so good on ya lass.

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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Quote Originally Posted by MJS View Post
    Thackley Tunnel is doable. Get on it
    Thanks for the suggestion!

    Just had a google around, looks pretty interesting so we may have to head down Do you know of any other Railway tunnels that are accessible? I have seen in a few places that there's one near Batley, not sure whether it's still open or not?

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    Default Re: [Bradford] Clayton and Queensbury Tunnel 20/05/2012

    Quote Originally Posted by MrMeep View Post
    Thanks for the suggestion!

    Just had a google around, looks pretty interesting so we may have to head down Do you know of any other Railway tunnels that are accessible? I have seen in a few places that there's one near Batley, not sure whether it's still open or not?

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