visit to the abandoned queensbury railway tunnel while out exploring

in todays video we take you on quite a somber explore as we visited the monuments at queensbury tunnel in Halifax.

Queensbury Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel that connects Holmfield and Queensbury in West Yorkshire, England.
It was built by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and, at 2,287m in length, was the longest on the company's network at the time of its
opening in 1878. The line through the tunnel closed in 1956.

Sadly at least ten men died during construction of the tunnel in the 1870s. Miners Henry Jones and John Gough were killed when a charge exploded as they attempted to withdraw it. Of the others, Richard Sutcliffe died after being struck by a cage which fell down a shaft, John Swire was run over by wagons,
Henry Ingham drowned at the bottom of a shaft, Sutcliffe Hodgson fell down a shaft, Richard Jones was crushed by falling rock,
Llewellyn Jones was injured in an explosion and succumbed to tetanus, Frederick Goulding was crushed by a wagon, and Captain Pickles was struck on the head by a large timber.

In more recent times plans had been made to re-open the tunnel and transform it into part of a walking/cycle rout connecting halifax and bradford but this was short lived as soon after two collapses occured the first was at the no4 shaft and the second was a bit further down the tunnel, inspections also revieled bulges in the tunnel lining and more minor collapses as such it was deemed far to dangerouse to go ahead with the plans and the tunnel was granted planning permission for its abandonment and was ultimatley closed off for good.

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