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UE_Mike

Glasgow tunnels

I've heard and been at the gate of the glasgow tunnel......under the botanical        gardens. when i was there it was pretty secure, even with me and my mates trying a crow at it lol

any ideas if there open or not.

hit a brick wall atm lol
Stuball

They must have fixed the lock
UE_Mike

quite gutted!

I think i need another trip!

......hehehe
james73

Haven't been down there for a while. Heard it was well secured recently. Some
other tunnels (click for big pic version)...






James H
Stuball

In the top picture, the only one you can get into now is Kelvindale and there isnt much to see
UE_Mike

They all cant be filled, can they??

are they just fenced up...????
james73

Very few are filled in, but all will be fenced up.



James H
UE_Mike

cool. i think im goin to go a wee drive, and investigate lol

i quite like tunnels.
Stuball

They are getting good at fencing them up these days... the yorkhill one is solid, kelvingrove hasnt been open for months and the thornwood one is impossible now. The only filled in one I can think of would be the one under the expressway
UE_Mike

cool, it looks like i need a saw or blow torch lol, Joking!!

I'll go and have a look, I'm sure wee neds like to break into places like tunnels hehe
Krakenslayer

I was down the Botanics tunnels a couple of times in June of this year, and thoroughly explored them. There is a little man-sized door in the steel gate, which was never locked when I was there, apart from a floor bolt that was easily removed from outside. Perhaps they have re-padlocked it?  

There's some pics on my Bebo page (http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3549600057), but there's a lot of better photos of the tunnels out there on the web, you've probably seen them.

There are a couple of other ways in... at the Kelvinbridge end of the tunnel there is a steel door blocking access. However, there is a large gap between the top of the door and the ceiling of the tunnel/station which, if one were so inclined, might be easily climbable. Just don't come to me with a lawyer if you break your neck.  

My next "project" is finding a way into the Yorkhill tunnel. They've put up an impassable steel gate to keep out the pill-poppers who used to hold raves inside it, and the other end (which once exited near Kelvinhaugh Street) has been backfilled for decades and is all but unrecognisable. The only feasible way in now is through the ventilation gaps in the ceiling of the tunnel, which are visible just inside the Yorkhill hospital wall on Old Dumbarton Road, but I'm going to have to buy a caving ladder to get down there safely.

Strangely, if you look through the small gap between the steel door and the stone wall, you can see a desk and chair just sitting there in the middle of the tunnel. Weird.
Alex Glass

Welcome to Urban Glasgow Krakenslyer

Great first post.

Hope you enjoy this site and look forward to reading more from you and possibly some of your photos
Stuball

Krakenslayer wrote:
there's a lot of better photos of the tunnels out there on the web, you've probably seen them.


Probably taken them
Krakenslayer

Alex Glass wrote:
Welcome to Urban Glasgow Krakenslyer

Great first post.

Hope you enjoy this site and look forward to reading more from you and possibly some of your photos


Here's some of the pics then (apologies for the quality, they were taken on my crappy camera phone):


A plaque in the Botanics next to the ventilation shafts. Everyone's been here and seen this, I would think.


The shafts from up in the Botanics.


The remains of Kirklee station.


A blurry shot of the tunnel entrance, with open gate.


This little light of mine...


Some creepy graffiti.


This made me smile for some reason.


My friend, standing under the ventilation shafts (looks like we did have a summer after all).


This is a good shot of the station.


The tunnel at the far end leading to the remains of Kelvin Bridge station. We followed it there but I forgot to take pics.


That's me, in the Botanics-Kelvinbridge tunnel. I look nervous, hehe.


Limestone deposits growing on the ceiling of safety arches in the tunnel near the River Kelvin. The tunnel is slowly turning into a cave.


Funny - there was nobody around when I took this pic!! (j/k) :P

There's a lot more on my Bebo and Myspace.
Krakenslayer

james73 wrote:
Haven't been down there for a while. Heard it was well secured recently. Some
other tunnels (click for big pic version)...

James H


The top one is missing one tunnel. We found it when we were scouting the River Kelvin area, it's near Maryhill. It's close to, and probably fed into, the Chapel Street tunnel. There is also a huge, overgrown railway bridge near it. I've marked the entrance  on this edited version of your map:



Google Maps link:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=...625&z=18&t=h&hl=en-GB  

If anyone is interested, I'll try and get some photos of it.
LowLight

Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?
Krakenslayer

LowLight wrote:
Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?


Would be interested in finding out. Although, if there is, it's probably full of jackeys.  
LowLight

Krakenslayer wrote:
LowLight wrote:
Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?


Would be interested in finding out. Although, if there is, it's probably full of jackeys.  


haha no doubt. I only noticed it a few months ago on a bridge that runs across Kerr St, must have been for the old Bridgeton Station I would think. Possible to see it from one of the scabby bits of spare ground at the Gallowgate too. More investigation required.
james73

Krakenslayer wrote:
The top one is missing one tunnel. We found it when we were scouting the River Kelvin area, it's near Maryhill. It's close to, and probably fed into, the Chapel Street tunnel. There is also a huge, overgrown railway bridge near it. I've marked the entrance  on this edited version of your map:


The bridge you mention was at the south side of Maryhill Central station and the
view was as shown below. When the station was closed the shopping centre
were made to build a tunnel under their building in case the rail line was ever
restored.





James H
Stuball

Krakenslayer wrote:
LowLight wrote:
Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?


Would be interested in finding out. Although, if there is, it's probably full of jackeys.  


Not really.... The gate at bridgeton end has been repaired and impassable and the other end is a no-go for reason I cant explain.

The only tunnel easily accessable on that map above is the Kelvindale 180yds, but its really boring with nothing much to see
Krakenslayer

With a little help from the maps posted by James73, I found the other end of the Kelvingrove tunnel on Google Maps:



I previously thought it ran straight through to Central Station, but it appears to come up above ground for about 20 yards before joining up with the live rail line near St. Vincent Crescent. Is there any way down there without trespassing on the railway?
Stuball

It joins with the Argyle line just before Exhibition Centre station... if you stand at the end of the platform and squint into the tunnel, you can see the two tunnels. Active line to the left, empty tunnel to the right.
Short answer for access without tresspass is no. The entrance at Kelvinbridge is locked very well (for this reason) and the other end is obviously out of bounds being a manned and cctv'd station.

There is only 2 tunnels on the north west glasgow map that are accessable now. One being the botanics, second being the tunnel along the side of the canal. Need it pinpointed on a map?
Krakenslayer

Stuball wrote:
It joins with the Argyle line just before Exhibition Centre station... if you stand at the end of the platform and squint into the tunnel, you can see the two tunnels. Active line to the left, empty tunnel to the right.
Short answer for access without tresspass is no. The entrance at Kelvinbridge is locked very well (for this reason) and the other end is obviously out of bounds being a manned and cctv'd station.

There is only 2 tunnels on the north west glasgow map that are accessable now. One being the botanics, second being the tunnel along the side of the canal. Need it pinpointed on a map?


I know roughly where you're talking about. I'll check it out.

So what is that on my map? It looks very much like the end of a tunnel, and it's not near a station. According to James73's map, a "St. Vincent Crescent tunnel" exits about here. I guess it's a tunnel covering a short part of the same line?

There is also the Yorkhill tunnel. Currently padlocked, and accessible only with a rope-ladder from within a secluded hidden part of the hospital grounds, but maybe some helpful jackeys/vandals will help us out with the padlock soon?  
Stuball

Its just a bit where it comes out in the open and goes back under for the Stobcross Depot. The gap isnt accessable unless you fancy jumping the wall with absailing gear (often frowned upon by the plods)

I doubt the Yorkhill tunnel will be open ever again since its been very well blocked. They've done a good job building that metal sheeting wall and the lock is covered and very sturdy making it near impossible to break. If it was going to be done, it would have happened long ago. That wall has been in place for over 2 years now, at least.

May I suggest exploring other avenues of urbex other than tunnels?
Krakenslayer

Stuball wrote:

May I suggest exploring other avenues of urbex other than tunnels?


I know, I know.  

I just don't like being thwarted like this. I started off with the Botanics tunnel and now I realise the best is behind me. I've peaked too soon, if you'll pardon the term (something Freudian about all this talk of entering tunnels? ).

I'm gonna get into that Yorkhill tunnel if it kills me (probably will). Then I'll let the tunnel phase go.  
Stuball

There is another tunnel you can get near.... but you'll have to get a little better known to me and to other board members before I spill that little gem

(I say near because the last time I was there it was 3 foot deep in stagnent, stinking water)
Krakenslayer

Stuball wrote:
There is another tunnel you can get near.... but you'll have to get a little better known to me and to other board members before I spill that little gem

(I say near because the last time I was there it was 3 foot deep in stagnent, stinking water)


Gasworks tunnel? It's on my list  
Stuball

No, not that one.... (isnt accessable anyway)
Synchro

LowLight wrote:
Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?



You can access this on the Gallowgate, the tunnels are exposed behind the large advertising board.
Stuball

Isnt there one hell of a drop down?
LowLight

I was just thinking that. I'm not really interested in getting down there I just wanted to know if anyone had been in it for a bit of exploration.
Krakenslayer

Synchro wrote:
LowLight wrote:
Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?



You can access this on the Gallowgate, the tunnels are exposed behind the large advertising board.


*cracks knuckles and goes off to find a torch*

Where exactly on the Gallowgate? How is the tunnel, have you been down there?
LowLight

Krakenslayer wrote:
Synchro wrote:
LowLight wrote:
Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?



You can access this on the Gallowgate, the tunnels are exposed behind the large advertising board.


*cracks knuckles and goes off to find a torch*

Where exactly on the Gallowgate? How is the tunnel, have you been down there?


Right HERE
Krakenslayer

LowLight wrote:

Right HERE


Oh sh!t, I know EXACTLY where that is! Thanks amigo!  
Xeno

The only way in that I know is open is at the High St station end. They put a fence up a few years ago on the bridgeton end. There still might be another way in BUT you have to climb into some ones garden  
Stuball

Xeno wrote:
The only way in that I know is open is at the High St station end. They put a fence up a few years ago on the bridgeton end. There still might be another way in BUT you have to climb into some ones garden  


The other end is an office car park and monitored...

The high street end is a big no no.... it involves crossing a live line!
orion83uk

Hi all,

New to this forum, but been using it a fair bit the past couple of weeks, particulalrly this thread on the abandoned railway tunnels.

I've already explored (like many) the Botanic Garden and Great Western Road tunnel - and wanted to explore some more

Me and a freind went searching for some of the other tunnel portals using the maps posted by James73 earlier (cheers James  ).

True, most looked impossible to get into. However, I reckon, as long you are not to wide at the waist, it should be possible to enter the Balgray Tunnel from the North portal. There is a small section of the fence that has been broken off near the bottom, right hand cornor. Personally, I reckon I could squeeze through.

Has anyone else been into this tunnel?
Alex Glass



Hi orion83uk

Welcome to Urban Glasgow.

Did you manage to take any photos  
orion83uk

Yeah - just one of the North and South portals (something you have all probably seen before anyway   )

I didn't get one specifically of this 'gap' in the fence though afraid.

Cheers for the welcome by the way!
Alex Glass

Post it up anyway orion it would be good to see your photo.

I am sure others would like to see it too
james73

orion83uk

Yes, post your pics by all means.  



James H
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