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Hey guys I gained access to the other tunnel and took some photos. It is much like the other tunnel other than that the brick partitions are built in the first half of the arch, and another difference is that the remainder of the arch has been filled-in with rubble and I had to jump up and pull...

Yep in one of the tunnels, the arch brickwork does have the odd fracture here and there however the other arch is completely sound, structurally, not a single crack. The photo showing the roof of the arch in one of the partitions is what the rest of the arch looks like. I have an architect...

Yes in fact the playing field next to these tunnels is known to flood like a lake every 10 or so years. The area is indeed at risk of flooding however 5 massive arches is overkill I would of thought. And the first 2 of the 5 arches with the weird brick partitions is still a mystery. The...

Thanks paul I just sent them an email with a link to this thread, hope they get back to me with an answer! @WatcherZero, you seem pretty confident with that explanation. Have you seen these types of tunnel partitions elsewhere, and correct me if I'm wrong but it seems madness to build these...

hi there, there are 5 arches side by side with the first one being the one I gained access to last night and the second one being the strange, identical tunnel I've documented earlier in the thread (with photos). It is identical to the first other than that they are laid out in opposite ends so...

Guys I've just gained entry to this new tunnel that sits beside the one already mentioned and it's much the same as the other one, other than the fact that it is back to front, so the brick partitions begin first, then the remainder of the tunnel carries on however what they've done with this...

If it helps, I found a 2.5sq foot square entrance to another tunnel, on the left side of the original tunnel, camoflauged in ivy. A fellow dog walker commented that when he was a kid in the 80's before they got barred up by the council, they would crawl in and find other tunnels branching off...

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can you possible scan or take a better resolution photo of that page when you have the time. Also is there any other photos in that book besides those two?

@kevjs i was in WB library earlier today looking for the book you mentioned and the librarian said it was taken out by someone this morning - i'm assuming this is you? There was another book by that went from 1870-1990, but I'm assuming the book you photographed above is the 1870-2004 one...

Would you mind asking yourself as I'm not a rail enthusiast I just came here to ask you knowlegable folks what this tunnel could be.

At last I have photos of this strange tunnel. Anyone able to now identify what the heck this actually is? the last photo shows the crawl entrance at the other side of the embankment. notice how the council have deliberately angled the security fence to keep access to this strange tunnel - why...

hi there i will take photos next time i go there, possibly tomorrow.

well spotted i never noticed that! it's no longer there, though.

hi john i'm not talking about the bridge but the bit further down. if you look closely on the first map i highlighted the area of interest in a shade of green. this area is not a bridge, but three arches of equal size/proportions, with the first of the three featuring this down-right weird...

i'm not sure though why there's three flood arches in an area that is around half a mile from the river. I understand the course of the river was different, but that was medieval period, it's been the same for atleast the past 200 years and the railway was constructed in 1870. It seems strange...

yes it is the section between those two roads. That's interesting regarding flood arches, I assumed they were simply there for people, horse & carts to pass under, when the area was all farmland before 1890. I also don't know why there are five tunnels in a row and not just the one?

sorry it's west bridgford, nottingham.

Hello everyone, I have just registered to ask a question that no one around my local area can answer, in fact it is a mystery. We have a disused railway embankment with five arches built side by side, big enough for a lorry to fit through however the first & second of these arches has been...