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Krakenslayer
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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. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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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 
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| 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 
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Krakenslayer
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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Krakenslayer
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| james73 wrote: | Haven't been down there for a while. Heard it was well secured recently. Some
other tunnels (click for big pic version)...
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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.
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LowLight
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a way into the tunnel that runs from Bridgeton, under Abercromby Street, the Gallowgate etc?
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Krakenslayer
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| 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. |
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LowLight
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| 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.
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james73
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| 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:
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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.
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Stuball
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| 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
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