Abandonded places
went on a 21.5 mile walk today (training for my London to Brighton walk) and went off piste to explore an old railway tunnel near Old Warden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Warden_Tunnel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Warden_Tunnel
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like the megatron
http://totalurbanexploration.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/megatron.html
(warning turn yer speakers off theres crappy music playing constantly lol)
again not quite the same, but i find the insides of no longer in use lunatic asylums etc fascinating too, like the old middlewood one in sheffield, only bits of it remain today, its now housing lol
http://www.rotherham-images.co.uk/Middlewood%20Hospital%20Main%20Page.htm
I do wish people wouldn't trash them though. :mad:
We had a tunnel like that at my old university.
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/
This website is excellent, especially the hospital shoots:
http://www.forlornbritain.co.uk/index.php
It's a housing estate now, all that's left is the annex up the road.
There's an old abandoned railway station in Glasgow near the Botanical Gardens that can be looked at, there's a tunnel nearby that leads all the way under the Clyde to the SECC but the other end has been bricked up, (checked on the net and the tunnel was bricked up in 1964 when they closed that line) i've been meaning to go and have a look but no one seems to be interested.
http://www.drakelow-tunnels.co.uk/
It was spooky, with old computer, electrical and telephone equipment still in there (but looking rather knackered). After the visit, my dad told me that he had installed some of the phones and stuff in there when it was built. He was a GPO engineer in the 60's, before Btritish Telecom was invented.
A lot of larger telephone exchanges in towns have emergency switchboards in the basement. All covered with dust sheets and the doors locked, long forgotten. My dad was trying to organise a school trip for my electronics class around Grantham exchange and had to tell the guy showing him round that the room was there lol.
Be sure to look at that link I posted, if you haven't seen the site before. A lot of abandoned Welsh infrastructure there, such as mines and metal works.
(sorry in advance, everyone from #speccy, you've seen me go over all this umpteen times already :p)
The station you refer to is underneath the Botanic Gardens and was/is called "Botanic Gardens"(spook!) and it's been on my todo list for years! The line did indeed close in 1964 but this particular station closed in 1939. The station is only partially covered, and you can see down into it from an area in the gardens that is bordered by fencing. While the station sits underneath the gardens, most of the line there is underground and tunnels lead away from the station, towards Kelvinbridge station at the SE end, to the north, towards Kirklee station (both of which are gone as well, although the plaforms for Kirklee remain at the very northernmost edge of the park).
Neither tunnel is irreversably sealed, although access is more or less impossible: The one at Kelvinbridge has 2 huge metal doors across it, which have been seen to be open occasionally. The tunnel portal at Kirklee is the one that has been used most often by people to gain access and so it's been made progressively harder to enter via this portal. It's not bricked up, but it does have a very strong metal barrier, which is topped by razor wire. EDIT: I should mention, if you're feeling adventurous: should you manage to enter this tunnel, there's a sting in the tail waiting for you. A similar barrier awaits you at the other end before you can get into the station!
I've got a thing for old railways and stations as well. As you know :lol:
Oh, the times myself and Guesser have practically sent everyone in #speccy to sleep with our discussions about this sort of thing, and attempts to locate disused lines and stations on google maps! Bah, if only my Flickr account was still active I could've posted a link to some of my exploration pics.
Aye, so I see. Might be worth a visit!
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Marko - you can still enter the station at the Bontanic Garden but has been deemed very unsafe so probably not a good idea (but i would still do it, maybe in the better weather!).
Now why am I picturing a river of glowing slime running along that trackbed? :lol:
There. :D
That's nothing, check out Hull on Google Earth, it's erm, interesting!:grin:
it's Hull on Earth
http://io9.com/the-creepy-world-of-abandoned-asylums-817071572
actually think it was this link i saw before
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/most-incredible-abandoned-mental-asylums/19808?image=0
spooky
Very disturbing when you think of the weird **** that went on in those places, especially around the 1900's.
like bedlam heights
This is an older site made by a single person I enjoyed when I first go into urbex, but it hasn't been updated in ages:
http://www.simoncornwell.com/urbex/
And there's another forum:
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/index.php