So yeah, this is an overspill for the Errwood reservoir. More commonly known as a plughole similar to the one in your bath, when the water level at the top reaches a certain height it floods over the walls and down into the Fernilee reservoir.
Three from Morse
After clipping in I was just over the railings as Nick said to me that they were driving back, I didnt hear much after that except that they had stopped and had asked for the kit to be removed & names to be taken.
We headed under, popped out of the bottom and gathered all of our gear expecting a police presence at the top. Luckily they had gone and had been fine with the other guys, next time we’ll get all 7 of us down.
A cheeky big mac and a strawberry milkshake got us back on the road but Bigjobs, Nick, Sho and Stacey had said their farewells. After racking our brains and the internet for something to do that wasn’t outside, myself, Morse and Millhouse ended up here. Woodhead Tunnel.
Back in the 1960s a couple of blokes figured instead of building pylons and stretching the cables out over the moors which was hard enough in itself, they would bring them through the empty Victorian rail tunnels.
I don’t really like reading the facts behind this one as 400,000 volts run through each of those black hefty cables, if I’m not wrong some of them are also oil cooled.
Photo:Morse
Got home and near enough hung myself up to dry, that was some hard rain!
Awesome plughole, would like to do one at some point 🙂
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great pics 😉 how did you gain acess to the newest woodhead tunnel? i havent been inside since the line closed and were lift the tracks ,theyve made it like new relining it and concrete the floors
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Did you get to the middle of woodhead tunnel?
There is a mess room for rail workers doing maintainence I wondered what became of it
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We walked a fair distance but we didn't take much notice of our position in the tunnel.
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I worked at the Dunford Bridge end aprox 1990 and used to drive the small Diesel loco into the tunnel carrying materials for the cable joiners Parelli constuction,
The mess room was still there at that time
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