We'd spent the morning of day two of our trip to the forest hiking up and over Yat Rock looking for a way in to Symonds Yat East tunnel. As it transpired, this little excursion turned out to be one for which the term "epic fail" was probably invented, owing to a combination of exceptionally bad map reading by myself, and a 1 in 4 climb through a pretty unforgiving hill. However, the afternoon brought us better luck with a stroll along the banks of the Wye to this beauty, which at 700 odd yards, was the longest of the three tunnels we explored. It was also curved (which had Fluffy creaming his pants at the opportunity to light paint in complete darkness - its what he loves mostest, dont ya know!) but extremely wet, especially at both ends.
This is at the river end from outside and in...
Lots of interesting stuff inside....
We had a good go at taking some interesting tunnel shots in here, including a bit of a mess around with some light painting. Fluff's are probably better than mine, but here goes....
There's more interesting stuff outside too, including this sunken (Type 26 variant?) pillbox, the remains of a signal column, and of course the rickety old footbridge, which really did look as if it was about to collapse at any moment. This had originally been the rail bridge into the tunnel.
A good way to finish the trip, all in all!
Thanks to Fluff for doing the research, and to mini-Fluff (or should that be Maxi- Fluff? He is over 6ft tall?) for helping out in all sorts of useful ways, and not moaning about having to put up with my (and his dads!) two day BS session.....
Cheers for looking
Godzy
This is at the river end from outside and in...
Lots of interesting stuff inside....
We had a good go at taking some interesting tunnel shots in here, including a bit of a mess around with some light painting. Fluff's are probably better than mine, but here goes....
There's more interesting stuff outside too, including this sunken (Type 26 variant?) pillbox, the remains of a signal column, and of course the rickety old footbridge, which really did look as if it was about to collapse at any moment. This had originally been the rail bridge into the tunnel.
A good way to finish the trip, all in all!
Thanks to Fluff for doing the research, and to mini-Fluff (or should that be Maxi- Fluff? He is over 6ft tall?) for helping out in all sorts of useful ways, and not moaning about having to put up with my (and his dads!) two day BS session.....
Cheers for looking
Godzy
