urbexsouth
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My story here is my kids question me on where and what I do when I dissapear in the evenings and weekends for hours with my camera coincide that with a mothersday drive to south wales I started to look for a place new to me and safe and exciting to show the kids so here we have the old Usk railway line and tunnel I hope you enjoy
Brief history taken from wiki.
The 256-yard (234 m) tunnel adjacent to the station was cut through the hill immediately to the east of the station. The tunnel was carved through sandstone, from which several fossils were preserved in the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff.
Both tunnel portals are masonry. The eastern one is supported by substantial buttresses. Whilst the roof is bricked-lined, the walls and occasional refuges are a mixture of brick and stone. The profile of the tunnel varies, notably in the centre marked by a pair of strengthening rings.
It is reputed that King Edward VIII slept overnight in the tunnel aboard the Royal Train,[2] possibly on the night of 18 November 1936.[3]
Brief history taken from wiki.
The 256-yard (234 m) tunnel adjacent to the station was cut through the hill immediately to the east of the station. The tunnel was carved through sandstone, from which several fossils were preserved in the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff.
Both tunnel portals are masonry. The eastern one is supported by substantial buttresses. Whilst the roof is bricked-lined, the walls and occasional refuges are a mixture of brick and stone. The profile of the tunnel varies, notably in the centre marked by a pair of strengthening rings.
It is reputed that King Edward VIII slept overnight in the tunnel aboard the Royal Train,[2] possibly on the night of 18 November 1936.[3]
