thurnby tunnel
Hi
went for a walk with my dad the other week so see the tunnel, I used to play in it as a kid, it has changed a bit, its now not so overgrown, and it looks like the coop farm has made a track down to the trackbed for vehicles, part of the trackbed is now a footpath, manged to take a few photos, won't bother uploading them as they are the same. Any idea why the other end was backfilled, there is a urban myth that the tunnel is haunted, mmmm, was that just invented just to scare the kids away, it didn't work very well.
hello
ill first confirm its most deffinetly NOT the Glenfield tunnel as its on the opposite side on Leicester just beyond Scraptoft down Covet Lane
not long after the line was closed my great uncle owned the surrounding land and the tunnel itself unfortunatly it was him that had the far end filled in, on a previous trip i have walked over land and pin pointed where the other portal should of been and theres no trace of it
the line heads off towards tilton just before it reaches tilton it splits and one line heads Ford Skegness via the tilton cutting (jurrasic fossiles can be found there)
you can see where the line splits here, also covered all the line here as know the land owner
me on a previous visit below the vent shaft
where the portal at the other end once was
no point me posting any more pictures as there all pretty simular
Hi
went for a walk with my dad the other week so see the tunnel, I used to play in it as a kid, it has changed a bit, its now not so overgrown, and it looks like the coop farm has made a track down to the trackbed for vehicles, part of the trackbed is now a footpath, manged to take a few photos, won't bother uploading them as they are the same. Any idea why the other end was backfilled, there is a urban myth that the tunnel is haunted, mmmm, was that just invented just to scare the kids away, it didn't work very well.
