The Rhondda Tunnel 2022

A return visit to the tunnel organised by the Rhondda Tunnel Society during one of their monthly Air Quality testing visits. The tunnel, the third longest in Wales, will be soon be reopened as a Cycle and Pedestrian route linking the Rhondda and Afan Valleys and will become the longest such tunnel in Europe! Join me now as I descend into the Rhondda Tunnel at Blaencwm.
For my 2019 visit at the Blaengwynfi end click here: • Rhondda Tunnel Visit A...
My still pictures can be found here: www.flickriver.com/photos/ben...
And to join the Rhondda Tunnel Society and help get the tunnel re=opened visit here: www.rhonddatunnelsociety.co.uk/

[@richardsanders7906]

Travelled through there once on a railtour in 1967.

[@whiskymacable]

Hi Ben, never seen you in person...Well video 🙂

[@johnwilliams-gz4ss]

I went through many times, behind steam and in a DMU. Reopen the line is what you want to do.

[@johndavies1336]

This was the most absurd report on record! It was about an elderly man who went down a “ Hole” in a tunnel that was the Rhonda Railway tunnel.
This report was about the man and not about the “ Rhonda Tunnel”.
This was completely incoherent. No historical or contemporary background or anything concise about the future of this “Rhonda Tunnel”.
Wales has this Tunnel because the Wealth of the Rhonda. Coal was being transported by Rail to Cardiff and Penarth Sea Ports.
Swansea Capitalists wanted the Coal transported to its Sea Port.
The Wealth of the Rhonda must have been enormous for the 3-5 year construction in the 1890s of the Rhonda Tunnel which cost at that time 13 plus Million£££.was an enormous sum in those days.
It’s reconstruction will cost about the same amount.
Let’s hope this time the benefits will remain in the Rhonda and it’s people
enjoy this heritage.

[@TheOpenBoatDAFFODIL]

So glad you enjoyed it 😀 (incidentally Rhondda not Rhonda)

[@carolinecollett4349]

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