A blast from the past...

To kind of celebrate my planned trip to Nottingham tomorrow, I just thought I'd share this shot of Mansfield Road tunnel in the city from one of my last trips. One of the longer disused bores in the UK (37th), Mansfield Road weighs in at 1189 yards (1087 metres), and was in use on the Great Central from 1898 to 1968. At its south portal, the station opened out into the long-gone Victoria Station in a very deep cutting (extant, though now housing an NCP!). The tunnel gently slopes and curves, and it's northern portal is buried, though accessible via a hatch.

New torch test

Greetings...

Recently bought a new torch (off Amazon, came from China!), purporting to be 4000 lumens. Hmm...

Attached is a test photo from a flooded tunnel in Gloucestershire - not good!!

Granted, it was taken right in the portal mouth, and the humidity in the tunnel was high, plus it was on my older camera with a shorter exposure, but it just looks shyte! Sorry, but it does. I spent the princely sum of £10.99 (ahem!) and the torch is crud! Yeah, alright, you get what you pay for...

Granted, with a longer shutter on the other camera & a darker tunnel it might look better, but ... It looks rather blue too. (The white lump is where the roof's caved in!).

The same Stockport tunnel

Just thought I'd share this photo of the other (east) end of Tiviot Dale tunnel in Stockport, found at SJ8950090828. Beyond the concrete fence (apologies for the rude word!), lies the busy M60. The portal lies a few metres inside this new concrete bridge. The tunnel has been infilled to within a few feet of the crown but, as this photo does NOT suggest, it can be easily accessed, apparently!

A Stockport tunnel

The gated west portal of the disused, part-infilled Tiviot Dale tunnel in Stockport (WJP1 80 / SJ8933590703), part of the Cheshire Lines Committee route opening in 1865. The 205metre-long bore closed in 1980, along with its nearby cousin, the 225m-long Wellington Road tunnel. Both can be easily reached alongside the busy M60 to the north of the town centre.

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A list of airport codes (worldwide) can be found here.

Er, poor taste journalism - or tempting fate...

This surely has to be the least good taste bit of news on the web today, or was it just put together innocently but wrongly thought out - read the headline on the right first!

I truly never thought I'd live to see the day that an entire tower block could be gutted like that! Thoughts and prayers tonight go out to those who died and to all those poor souls who've lost everything. I live in social housing and I value my possessions. Yes, possessions can be replaced, but some folks in these flats have very little anyway through poverty, so to lose it all is utterly sickening.

Hello

Hello - I'm still around, just going through an idle spell right now. Don't expect any postings any time soon (later in summer I expect), as I'm not in the Urbex zone right now. Hope to get back there in July or August though.

As always, my older photos can be found on my Flickr page. Cheers.