Woodkirk Station Remains and the Toxic Gas Tunnel

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  • Опубліковано 13 гру 2024

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  • @donaldstainburn7035
    @donaldstainburn7035 Рік тому +2

    Been a long time since I’ve seen that, walked through the tunnel many times as a youngster playing around there.

  • @railwaychristina3192
    @railwaychristina3192 10 місяців тому +1

    Those platform remains, what an exciting find! I'd clean them up.

  • @robertfearnley6746
    @robertfearnley6746 Рік тому +4

    This tunnel was still open to walk through in early 70s when I lived at Soothill. Real adventure for a 7 year old!!

    • @exploringthepastandthepres9793
      @exploringthepastandthepres9793  Рік тому +1

      Thanks ! Surely no gas in there in the 70s 😀

    • @robertfearnley6746
      @robertfearnley6746 Рік тому +2

      No gas at all!! I believe the gas issue was due to extensive landfill above the tunnel causing methane gas build up, and the building you see outside the soothill side portal was, or maybe still is monitoring the gas levels.

  • @RichardCour
    @RichardCour 3 місяці тому +1

    I lived on Soothill and this area was our playground as kids. We would regularly walk through the tunnel from the Soothill end to Woodkirk. There was no pumping station at the enterance at the time, it was just bricked up with a small enterance door to the left. I can remember the middle part having quite a lot of orange mud, I'm guessing the colour was caused by iron oxide from the quarry? In the 1970s there were quarries to one side of the tunnel and open cast mining to the other. Both were used as household waste tips then and landfill then landscaped...I was told that the landfill plastics had formed a near waterproof film under the landscaping which was why the area was so muddy, also the decaying waste gave off methane gas some of which has leaked into the tunnel...if you continue down the track bed at the end of the video it would have eventually taken you to Batley railway station via an estate built on top of the old line....Thanks for posting this video, it brought back memories. 😊

    • @exploringthepastandthepres9793
      @exploringthepastandthepres9793  3 місяці тому +1

      @@RichardCour thank you !
      Thanks for your memories ! 😃
      I will be hopefully doing a full video on this line at some point ! And will try and include this information ! Glad it brought back memories for ya

    • @RichardCour
      @RichardCour 3 місяці тому

      @@exploringthepastandthepres9793There was a pub opposite the church at the road entrance to the station called The Cardigan Arms. I remember the derelict building as a kid, it was knocked down in the early 1970s to make room for widening the road.

  • @tracya4087
    @tracya4087 Рік тому +2

    hiya mate , this channel is going from strength to strength , most of the long lost lost lines where i live have been wiped off the face of the earth , but a few gems remain out in wilds , found some great things too , thanks very much from nick , tracys husband , in wigan , lancashire

  • @simonballard6413
    @simonballard6413 Рік тому +1

    Lovely video, Ashton. Don't blame you for not wanting to inhale the awful gases of Soothill! Glad you found the one shaft, though.

  • @Tanks_at_22
    @Tanks_at_22 Рік тому +2

    Keep up the amazing work Ashton this to me is tribute to the amazing Civil Engineering of the time, your coverage is getting better and I look forward to buying the dvd or book as you progress, brilliant stuff keep it up buddy 👊👍👏👏

  • @loubielou74
    @loubielou74 Рік тому +1

    We went down 2years ago more winterish time though and you could see so much more. Because of the overgrowth had died down obviously x

    • @exploringthepastandthepres9793
      @exploringthepastandthepres9793  Рік тому

      Awww Ano winter time can be better for these explores as your more likely to see Less vegetation !
      Nice little walk tho and thanks for subscribing 😁😎

  • @robinwatling6538
    @robinwatling6538 10 місяців тому +1

    superb as always thank you

  • @suesmith4366
    @suesmith4366 Рік тому +1

    Very interesting Ashton 😎

    • @exploringthepastandthepres9793
      @exploringthepastandthepres9793  Рік тому

      Thank you! I had have never known about this one . Someone who’s parents came across it showed me it ! 😄😃

  • @alantraish3368
    @alantraish3368 Рік тому +1

    Always wanted to do this one and Bolsover. On National highways to fill in I expect :(. They are going to fill in Barnsdale tunnel now I believe according to Ant on trekking & explorstion :(

  • @johnwatson3616
    @johnwatson3616 Рік тому +1

    Those holes in the South portal could have been made for access by bats.

  • @railwaychristina3192
    @railwaychristina3192 Рік тому +1

    Fab❤

  • @a11csc
    @a11csc Рік тому +1

    great vid where is acess to this

  • @nigelkthomas9501
    @nigelkthomas9501 Рік тому +1

    I would love to walk through Soothill Tunnel. If breathing apparatus is necessary so be it.
    If the smell of gas is so bad I wonder if a naked flame would cause an explosion? 💥 What sort of gas is it?