The Queensbury tunnel explore

The Leeds Historical Expedition Society explored the mile & half long abandoned Queensbury railway tunnel to the West of Bradford. At 400' below the village this is the deepest & longest disused tunnel in England. A real monster! The last passenger trains ran through here in 1955 with all frieght finished the track was lifted in the early 1960's. We could only traverse 1.1 mile into the tunnel as the amount of water pouring in the tunnel buids up & gets deeper as the tunnel is on a fall of 1 in 100, As we stand at the waters edge the water level rises untill it touches the roof & covers the whole portal half a mile away at the Halifax end in Strines cutting. The tunnel took 4yrs to build. Blasted out of sheer rock it's a n incredible testament to the victorian engineers & builders. Suprisingly there was only one man killed during it's construction. We've added long exposure camera shots as the tunnel is incedibly hard to light up for video work due to it's so cavernous size. It's all held together with the classic Get Carter sound track from Jacks train ride journey home to Newcastle on his deadly mission. Enjoy the trip.
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