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james73 · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject:

Old and Current tunnels

The in-tunnel junction

The blockage in the Yorkhill tunnel - the new line burrows in from the
right beyond this blockage

James H
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orion83uk · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:33 am Post subject:

Cheers James for posting these. I wonder why the felt the need to put a blockage in for the Yorkhill tunnel, but not the Stobcross Depot tunnel? Unless it was just for general access purposes?
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orion83uk · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject:

I know some of this will probably be old news, but anyways. I was out cycling about again today and decided to go check out the south portal of the Tamshill tunnel. Got some pictures, although apologies that they don’t show more. It was surprisingly hard to get a good angle due to amount of stuff growing down there:

So unless a crowd of us wanted to go there with shovels (*wink*wink*hint*hint*), its safe to say Tamshill tunnel is a no-goer.

The opening between the north portal of the Chapel Street tunnel and Tamshill south portal has been completely filled in:

All that remains of the Chapel Street north portal is the top:

The Chapel Street south portal, behind the Bingo hall, is bricked over:

I also got some photos of the “Halloween Pen” (see EmmettG’s post earlier on page 10 of this thread):

I’m sure the other end of this was open as I could see a faint light in the distance, but I forgot to bring a torch and the ground was quite wet and muddy. Will return another day to check this out, but it doesn’t look anything special to be honest.
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james73 · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject:

orion83uk · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject:

james73 · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject:

No, I never was.

James H
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orion83uk · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject:

Out and about again on the bike today – I seem to be making this a habit on a Saturday now. Least I won’t feel guilty when I chow into the food I’m going to get later from the carry out. Anyways, I got some more tunnel pictures.

First, the other side of the “Halloween Pen”:

…and inside:

Also managed to find the Provan Mill Gassworks north portal. Getting to it is starting to get a little tricky thanks to nature taking over. Pretty safe to assume that fence is pretty secure:

The tunnel also looked to have a few inches of water in it. Does the south portal still exist for this tunnel?
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james73 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject:

orion83uk · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject:

Craig · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject: