Hidden Secrets Of The Mersey Tunnel | What's Underneath?
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- Exploring the History of the Mersey Queensway Tunnel in Liverpool, uncovering all of it's history and Hidden Secrets.
In this video we head down below the ground and into the Mersey Tunnel, looking at a hidden and unused electric tramway deck, hidden below the main tunnel. Walk through the ventilation tunnels and have a close look at the emergency refuge bunkers.
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Fantastic video. The price of the tour is extremely cheap for such a long tour and there’s so much to see and learn. It’s approaching not far off 100 years old now and in many respects, is a working museum. Much of the old running gear would probably last another 100 years. Vintage British engineering at its best 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I travelled through this in about 1955 with my uncle, who was the electrical engineer for the tunnel. A distant memory. Anyone remember the red police landrovers?
Many years later I worked for Nuttalls, who built the Wallasey tunnel at the end of the 60s and once travelled on The Mole as it cut its way under the Mersey.
I remember the red Landies. I was stuck in there due to a car fire in the seventies with my mum, I must have been about 6 or 7 years old.
they could fit a tram to it today
A brilliant video that shows all you need to know about these tunnels. This 3-part series has to be 10/10. What a joy to watch - well done 👍.
I worked on the sky drama bulletproof in the an old unused part of the tunnel on the birkenhead side, near where they keep the mersey ferries at night. I dont know if you visited it when making this vlog, but its really scary, got old abandoned vehicles and all kinds down there from year ago. It was hard film shoot because had to commute and walk back several times to where the film unit was depp down the tunnel and then back out to units where our camera truck was. It was such a draining experience.
I'll have to check that out Alex
Ahh, the old spooky disused dock exit, always wanted to have a mooch down there.
Many thanks to Allison for the tour. Excellent experience.
Thanks for watching
I worked down there in the 90's...installing and securing where the money came in with bespoke cages, also I help make and install the manual barriers at the pay booths that are still there.
Did Alison mention about one of the original moles in the Queensway Tunnel, that is still positioned in a side tunnel off the main one?
It was too big to return back so they created a side tunnel and left it there. One of my exes worked for the tunnels many years ago, and she was given a behind the scenes tour as part of her induction and i remember her mentioning this to me. If i remember correctly there are some pipes that actually run through the machine as it was cheaper to do this than build the pipes around it.
A great finish to another excellent series. Thanks Darren
Yes she did. Thanks
Hi Daz, I once drove through the Tyne tunnel with a smashed side window (flamin scroates after my stereo)!!! Yikes I was so light headed from the fumes. I guess the ventilation wasn't as good as the Mersey tunnels 🧐 Cheers DougT
It must be really something to go to these hidden rooms and corridors that we would never see or think about seeing for ourselves. Amazing! I do love your Videos Darren 👍😊
Thanks
I certainly did enjoy this little series, Darren - and a vote of thanks to Alison, too. I shall never look at a road tunnel in quite the same way again!
Thanks for watching
Another amazing series with great information and lots of history
Thanks Wayne
Wow, fantastic video, love the noise levels…. I don’t think we appreciate it fully until you speak over it….. fascinating!!
Thanks for watching
Incredible Darren. What a superb adventure. You certainly loved every second. You could hear it in your voice, thank you for taking us with you. I never knew anything like this existed. Amazing. What a work went into this tunnel.
Thank you for the tour today Darren. A great experience. Cheers mate!
Be great if they did tours of the Merseyrail tunnels
It would
Been waiting for this for ages! Another absolutely brilliant video, thank you.
Thanks Jay
Many thanks; really enjoyed your 3-parter on the Mersey Tunnel. Thx too to Alison for hosting you. I'll deffo be going on the tour next time I'm up that way.
Thanks for watching
That was great! Awesome that they have such nice tours!
Thanks mate
Brilliant tour. Thanks to you both. 👍🏼
Thanks mate
Brilliant series! I throughly enjoyed that 😊
Thanks Holli
Another great series, thanks and well done mate
Thanks Pete
Excellent video, i went through the tunnels for the first time the other day, i didn't know they did tours until i looked on line ,will definitely do one when back in Liverpool
Thank you for another really enjoyable video series, looking forward to what you have to offer next week.
Thanks Simon
Most excellent, Darren. Great to go right into the very basement of the tunnel, and hearing all that traffic above! Some amazing passageways along the whole length, and it's just unimaginable how big the diameter of the whole structure is. Many thanks to the lady for the permission to go on this grand tour, and to yourself for producing this fabulous series.
Thanks mate.
Such a great video, im a local & loved this, i didn't know they did tours, this answered so many of the questions i had about the workings & construction of the tunnels, thanks m8
Excellent series.
Many thanks to Alison for showing You (and therefore us) around the tunnel and associated buildings, I've never been to Liverpool or Birkenhead nor am I likely to, so this series has truly been an eye-opener.
Thanks Andy
Brilliant video. So enjoyed watching the great series. Thank you so much Darren.
Thanks Eliz
Thanks for that and your guide Allison from the tunnel tour,very enjoyable.
Thank you
Brilliant series, Darren, I really enjoyed watching it. Thank you for sharing. Nice one. 👍👍👍
Thanks mate
Fantastic series. Thank you 👍
Thanks
What a wondrful series of videos. Fascinating, I will watch them over and over again. Thank you to yourself and Alison.
Thanks Mike. Glad you enjoyed
Your vlogs are so informative and entertaining thank you.Its another tour I'm going to have to book.Wishing you the best!
Thanks Nick
Fantastic series of videos there many thanks for sharing them, I realy enjoyed watching.
Thanks mate
Great and a very interesting 3 part post, top man and many thanks ....
Thanks alan
Excellent part .1 ,2 and 3 ..
Carry on.
Thank you for this one, I’m all booked in for the tour when up in the area next month, I cant wait
Thanks Davina
Hi Darren, that was really a interesting video, and thanks to your guide Alison for taking you round. The tour sounds like its really good value for money. Interesting to see the refuges that were put in place following the fire in the Alps.
Good luck from Spain!!
Thanks David
Thanks so much for this. I fully intend to go on one of these tours now. Great vid and great presentation.
Glad it was helpful!
Great Video ,going to do the tour now.
Another very interesting set of three videos, thank you for making and showing us these wonders the like that we won’t be experiencing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi Darren, talking about old caretakers homes there is one built on the flat part of the roof of the Cunard building. It was a bungalow type of building. I once worked for a company in there and often went up to the roof level. Maybe it's just used as a storage space these days. It might even show on Google earth? Cheers DougT
Brilliant content as always 👌
Thanks Thomas
Wowser! What a fabulous behind the scenes tour…
Thanks Robin
Great video mate, so glad i found it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Superb again. Love the bells they should be in one of the museums.
Thanks for watching
Brilliant content Darren.
Thanks Richard
We did the tunnel tour last year. Was very interesting and great value. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in how things work
Excellently produced. Quality.
Thanks graydon
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks for watching
I went on the tunnel tour a few years ago and recommend it , thanks for the video, I enjoyed it very much 👍
Great to hear!
Very very interesting. Thanks
Thanks for watching
Is this the Tour that anyone can go on or where you allowed in more areas than the Public ? Looks amazing.
They show you pretty much what I saw.
@@AdventureMe thanks Darren. Seems like a very comprehensive tour for a good price. Keep up the good work, the channel is great 👍
Hello Darren glad to have you back doing your interest vidio of Mersey side tunnel did you have a good holiday lots of love to you take care stay safe xx
Thanks Lynn. Yes very good holiday
Good to know for everyone that travels through the tunnel regularly, what the refuges look like and what's in it. If they're ever in an emergency, they know what to expect there.
Superb video…and I’m now going to book my tour!
Hope you enjoy
Great video! I wasn't aware they did tours but will definitely be booking now I know, so cheap as well! If you haven't done it the St Johns tower tour is good, some great views of the city from up there.
Thanks mate. I'll check out the st Johns tower
Great video, I spent a lot of time over 10yrs in and out of the tunnels for fire detection & suppression. Such a big place it had to have a resident fire engineer between this site and the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
Thanks for watching
Amazing
Thanks Adam
Such an awsome and fascinating series of videos, growing up in Liverpool I was always fascinated by the Queens way tunnel. My cousin and I would always look out for the sealed off tunnel entrances to the disused side tunnels and would imagine what it would be like to explore them.
I always wondered what lay behind the many doors in the wall, and very much appreciated getting this glimpse of what actually lies behind, above and below this amazing feat of human strength, perseverance and ingenuity.
Also I must have walked past that ticket kiosk so many times and I always wondered what it actually was, inversion had any idea that it was one of the original tunnel kiosks.
Thanks Simon
Superb Video
Thanks Chris
Driving through this tunnel is quite surreal, almost futuristic despite it's age. You pray to the motoring gods that you don't break down.
Thanks Tony
Boss that mate ❤️
very interesting daz. Did u have a good holiday. 👍
I did mate. Thanks
Just found your channel today, and am binge watching- these videos are right up my street aswell. if you go to Woodside Ferry on a weekend, there are trips on old electric tram to the tram museum in Birkenhead- very interesting.
Thanks Mickey. Welcome aboard.
Wow fascinating especially the ventilation system. Smaller tunnels like those on North Wales Express way around Llandudno just seem to have large roof mounted fans just blowing air through admittedly they are a lot smaller.
Thanks for watching
I've driven through both road tunnels literally thousands of times over the years, on my way to work. I've never seen underneath. This was fascinating 👍
Thanks Chris
Did this tour back in 1995 as part of my engineering YTS!
I vaguely remember some of these rooms however I do remember being shown the tunnel below the road deck, now I hope my mind isn’t playing tricks on me after all this time but I do remember seeing a rail track being down there and a inspection unit on the track that would run along the track allowing engineers to inspect any damage or wear and tear of the road deck and the tour guide at the time told us the unit was a model T ford that was modified to run on track!
A great video by the way 👏
Thanks for watching
You’re not imagining it, I’ve seen it too in the mid-90s. Not sure if it was a model T but certainly a very old car with most of its bodywork removed. I’d imagine it’s still down there.
Very nice video
Thanks Ronnie
Amazing...that was me going past in the car...;0)
I visited the tunnel many years back and was absolutely fascinated by it. I had these awful fears of pitch black vast underground spaces but was pleasantly surprised to se everything was lit except the in coming fresh air shafts which are dark except for a faint bit of light as you look up the shafts. Also it looks very clean and the concrete despite being over 85 years old still looks fresh and modern. Wouldn’t like to see the exhaust shafts though, I bet they are pretty shitty with all the crap the cars.
Thanks for watching
certainly more to it than meets the eye darren
There is
Hi Darren, superb stuff, thanks to alison too, but I was thinking that the two way traffic in the tunnel is so dangerous especially with no central barrier. Head on crashes for certain.
Thanks mate
That was a good one. 👏👏👏 But, they all are
Thanks Chris
super as allways
Thanks mate
Just came in the house from picking weeds in the back yard "garden" for a break and what was waiting on the computer just for me???? A new AdventureMe Vid, happy times.... That's a bargain price for the tour.... Thank for all your walking and climbing the stairs for us......
Thanks Mike. It is a bargain
@@AdventureMe Still in the back picking weeds and doing general yard work...... lol
Another excellent video! Only one point of note - it's not "BIRkenhead", it's "BirkenHEAD"! Otherwise superb, thanks for the glimpse into our tunnel.
Thanks Geoff
Surely Bear~hhcunn~ed?
Smashing pair of videos. Thanks.
I did some survey work for electrical alterations back in the 80s. It is a fascinating engineering complex. Go visit!
Thanks for watching
Oh ace 😁
We’re just about to have a late tea, as soon as we’re done I’m on this. I’ll no doubt edit this comment in a bit. I’ll just say while I remember I drove right past emley tower 2 weeks ago, I thought of your video, you can’t get the scale from a video, that thing is gargantuan!!!
Thanks Dan. Yes it's mahoosive
@@AdventureMe Certainly a sight to behold when you’re up close. I’m fond of concrete structures.
I’ve got a little video on my channel of the old and new Edinburgh old road bridges leaving out from Moffat 🏴 I did the other day while we was away. Old stone and concrete running side by side, albeit the old bridge hasn’t been used for years. I’m a crap narrator though 😂
Fascinating. In the mid 1990s, I rescued some old DEC computers from there... I can't remember if they ran the toll booth systems, or controlled and monitored the ventilation, or both, but there was a DEC pdp-8/L, the remains of a pdp-8/I, and one or two pdp-11/34s. I think I got some of the disk packs that went with them, and even some paper tape software.
Thanks Mike
Wonder why there haven't been any proposals to "box" out central avenue and allow pedestrian/cycle traffic through??
Ths clip is just way too cool...
So stroll on, under the Mersey... (Apologies to Gerry and the Pacemakers).
always wanted to cycle through Queensway tunnel
Absolutely fascinating 👏 It's interesting to note that the Tunnel still uses 1970s MPTE Verona Green paintwork. It was a trendy colour in the 70s but is rather vomit-inducing nowadays. It's a pity they have not rebranded to the current Mersey Travel yellow and silver(grey).
Thanks for watching
I live in Birkenhead and go through the tunnels a lot. But never done the tour.
Wanted to do it for a while now.
You should give it a try.
Fantastic! A remarkable piece of tunnel engineering. The dimensions - 44ft dia - excavated, I assume, without tunnel boring machinery, are mind boggling. Really enjoyable video! Thanks!
Thanks Malcolm
Really interesting tour Darren, It's surprising how many deviations the tunnel takes on it's way under the river.
Thanks Steve
Boris Johnson 😄 🤣 brilliant 👏
I wish the tunnel tours would show the fans at their full 100% rated operating speed and not just half speed. But i guess they keep them at 50% or lower during tours due to concerns about fear of beeing sucked in.
I've loved this latest series of videos. What do you have in mind for the next videos?
So many options lol
£8 that is a great price, the way the traffic goes in opposite directions in Queensway tunnel and the newer Kingsway tunnel has separate tunnels for traffic
It's a bargain
Is anyone else not quite so disgruntled now for paying a couple of quid to travel though? Incredible engineering 🤗
I remember Liverpool buying all those tramrails for the Metro. They obviously sold them on to more enlightened and ever-expanding systems elsewhere. What a pity.
Thanks for watching
Are they benches along the central part of the lower bore section? Looks like it could have been used as an air raid shelter (or at least prepared for that)
I didn't see any. But possible
@@AdventureMe they were built into the wall running the entire length of the lower section by the refuges stations with numbers above it every foot or two. Kind of hard to miss :)
Hello Darren how are you dod you watch the queen funeral it was very moving best wishes take care stay safe xx
I did lynn. Very sad
So, t'original start shaft:- pick, shovel and, happen, steam shovelled descent ¿?
Also, remember when Queens way was opened, half the population from Wallasey tripped across The Mersey to work each day and back, so the trade aart from the ferries existed to sort demand by trams, which were all over Liverpool and the northern Wirral back then....
Forgive me but I was envisioning Paul McCartney jumping out at you lol
Lol
Is there much difference in the construction of the Queensway Tunnel compared to the Kingsway?
Queensway is one tunnel with traffic in both directions, Kingsway are 2 separate tunnels with 2 lanes of same direction traffic
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3:27 I think that was me