For those who loved the Titanic picture

I have many happy memories of Southampton having

worked for the P&O at sea for some fifteen years

 

 

Same place as Titanic but of course a new Queen

Strines cutting and the portal

It was a massive feat of engineering

I believe Queensbury tunnel is the Longest

deepest tunnel in England. The massive work

of digging through Illingworth moor through

to Queensbury is nearly two miles. The depth at

Strines cutting is some 60ft so the depth within

can be imagined from this picture.

 

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The Queensbury Lines

Some contributions from one of our

readers.

many thanks to Jack Teasdale

 

Festiniog from and unknown author

Return form major overhaul

 

 

Such are the problems with narrow gauge

 

But great to see the work behind the scenes

 

Livingstone Thompson

 

Snowdon Mountain railway

Rack and pinion

 

 

Sadly not steam on this day

 

But a celebration of preservation non the less

Festiniog railway Prince

Festiniog and Welsh Highland

 

Fairlie's Patent locomotive 'Livingstone Thompson'

Looking brilliant on the Festiniog

 

 

Complete with refurbished and restored coaches

 

As built

Shelley station Kirklees light railway

Shelley station tea room and my ever patient wife

Helen

 

 

Badger was our steed for the day

 

They turn the engines at either end

 

Superbly kept

 

15 inch gauge

 

A good subject to model

Kirklees light railway Clayton West Station

Superbly maintained

 

 

The Narrow gauge line follows the old trackbed

of the original standard gauge line

Yorkshires great little railways

Engine shed at Clayton West on the Kirklees light

Railway

 

 

Had a trip there on Thursday last

 

A lovely little railway

 

Engines had been readied for the Haloween

 

Very well worth a visit.

Strines cutting, a few more

Strines cutting shortly after track lifting

 

 

Lack of proper drainage maintainence caused the

cutting to gradually fill as infilling further down

the line to the south caused a damming effect.

 

Looking from the Tunnel portal South. The bridge is

the one carrying the culverted beck across the line

 

here from the culvert bridge we see the South portal

of Queensbury tunnel

 

The pumping out work before final infilling

Look at what remained ie the telegraph carriers

 

Many thanks to Phil D for some of the more recent

pictures

Strines Cutting. Almost the last view

Now infilled this feat of Victorian engineering is

hid from our eyes. Hid but not forgotten or the

men who toiled in it's digging and the two who

gave their lives in it's construction 

 

Queensbury tunnel

The northern portal

 

 

The state of the tunnel before draining

 

 

Of course now the southern portal is inaccessible

due to the filling of Strines Cutting to the south.

 

I think the above is attributable to a team from

Leeds Uni

Strines Cutting

Hewn out of the rock below Illingworth Moor

 

 

Strines cutting was some 60+ deep. The bridge

carried a culvert which directed the Oveneden beck

over rather than to and through the railway cutting

 

The culmination of the cutting being the Southern

portal of Queensbury tunnel.

 

Shown here just before final filling in as water was

drained and permanent pipeworks laid to drain the tunnel

The bridge mention in the above picture which carries

Ovenden beck can still be seen here.