The First Severn Tunnel Failure
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We hope you enjoyed this weeks Abandoned Tunnel Story, judging by what great condition the Bullo Pill Tunnel is in today, its a shame this never quite made the trip under the severn.
Credit and Thanks:
Severn Trow: C.Catton (Own work CC 2.0)
Source of information: Largely Keith Walker via various news articles.
Red Lion: www.redlionarlingham.co.uk/
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Maps: National Library of Scotland
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Fun story about the Severn tunnel
When my grandad was at school, they went on a school trip to Bristol zoo by rail. As the train went into the tunnel, one of his mates bet him sixpence that he wasn't brave enough to pull the emergency chain. The train came to a stop at the bottom of the tunnel, and due to the slope going in both directions, it was unable to get going again. Another engine had to be brought into the tunnel from the English side and assist, rocking the train backwards and forwards until it was able to get enough speed up to make it out of the tunnel again. By the time they got to Bristol, the zoo was closed and they had to just turn round and head for home again
The best story ever.
And on the way back the chain was pulled again lol.
Possibly the best 40 bob fine earned had they ever been caught!
Bless them the little scallywags, kid knew how to have fun in those days
@@mickd6942 Because they were high from all the asbestos they were eating
Love the shot at 2:44 showing the outside turns of the combine harvesters
Very interesting as usual,didn’t know anything about that tunnel, well done, thanks
Cheers Stephen. I was news to us that it was the same guy who built the Bullo Pill.
As soon as you said "What could possibly go wrong?" My WiFi connection went and you started buffering! lol
Noooooooooo
That's the southern bridge at Bullington village that crosses the road and the River Dever.
And that telegraph pole that still stands as a reminder.
Great video by the way about the first tunnel under the Severn. That I didn't know.
Many thanks again, you two.
Well spotted Sir. Much appreciated
That was interesting. It would seem the technology of the day didn't match their ambitions. Can't knock them for trying though.
Cheers Carl, yup absolutely that!
Hi Paul and Rebecca, another very interesting video about tunnels, I recently discovered an interesting fact about Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s famous Box Hill Tunnel, that on his birthday every year when the sun rises it shines directly through the entire tunnel..!!!
You need to have a look on one of their other videos Peter. Might not be true
I'm sure I've read somewhere that this is no longer true. I'm pretty sure it 𝒘𝒂𝒔 true but something may have changed ~ leap years maybe, or something similar?
What an interesting clip! Worth a sub on this alone. Well filmed, edited and the enthusiasm of both of you shines through.
Welcome to the channel. We've a biiiig back catalogue
Another fantastic video. That tunnel was quite lovely and so was the history. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care
If you go looking for it, the Red Lion in Arlington is a brilliant pub, we don't live far from there and it's always done great food. I hope it survives post-covid.
Arlingham, not Arlington
That was fascinating, your enthusiasm for history and your presenting skills are a pleasure to watch, thanks a lot 👍
Thank you. Very kind
I've lived in sub tropical Dursley all all my life thus far and never knew a tunnel was attempted there. There's a pub called the passage which is much closer to the severn at Arlingham than the Red Lion.. It's mad that if your over at Newnham , and you want to get back to Dursley, you have to drive for 42 mins at least as you have to drive up to Gloucester and come back down as there are no crossings near enough at that point. If you could get across the severn from Newnam to Arlingham, it would take 15 mins. Thanks for that short yet informative video.
The Red Lion at Arlingham is one of my favourite pubs!
Brilliant, well presented and illustrated throughout.
That was short and sweet. I was just getting into the video and it ended! Bugger.
Nice one seeing both I remember my College teachers,since they always showed me the correct path.
While constructing the CEGB tunnel under the Severn and Wye rivers, we hit water twice on the Severn section. Two rock diggers were purchased but proved too slow, one started a Aust towards Beachley and the other Beachley under the Wye. It make up time the drill and blast was used to meet up with the machines. One firing left an outcrop that would interfere with the precast lining, so it was drill and a half stick pop round used, well this found a fissure. A steel plate was fixed over it to control the spray of water and the lining progressed past it. Once suffient lining had past the leak was grouted up with success.
Friday night the drillers would drill 3 holes forward to prove the ground for the next weeks work, the drill shot forward into a void and when detached from the air drill the drill length shot out into the tunnel with the high water pressure. The miners managed to inert a cut off valve into the drill hole and for the next 10 days grout was pumped into the void.
Water was always a problem the pump out rate at the Beachley shaft was 1800 gals per min during excavation. On completion of the lining it was 50 gals per week from the entire tunnel length.
@Ian Concannon We pump in a thin grout first to fill the crevasses and then thicken it up to fill the void. The thick one would be 10 x 1cwt bag to 25 gals water. The other would be the Paddy mix. IE: Some to plenty.
Nice story and didn't knew about the first Seven Tunnel but did knew about the Seven Tunnel that still stands today.
Thanks for another very interesting video! I really enjoyed it and as usual you both made it really interesting and informative. Thanks again Paul and Rebecca.
I 've worked on many modern long tunnels and how they did it back then absolutely baffles me.
That's a fascinating story, i knew nothing about this tunnel. Water is a huge issue in the Severn rail tunnel of today. The pumps must be working overtime 24/7 to keep it dry.
As always, a most interesting video. Thanks so much, both of you.
Really enjoy your videos. Also it’s great to see how well your videos are put together and seeing progression of your editing and video construction.
Thank you. Very kind.
Thanks to you both for another interesting (railway) vid, and about a partly built tunnel I knew nothing about!
& I thought with that intro & the linking of arms, we were going to follow the yellow brick road 🤣 Alas
You know if we would have thought of that......
That was brilliant! I love it when I discover something I know little about, but it is even better when it is all new! 😀 Fascinating- and indeed very sad- tale...and many thanks for ensuring I am now aware of it! 👍👏 🍀
This reminds me, I meant to mention it before, you should do a video of Adelina Patti. She was the first passenger through the Severn Tunnel (although she didn't plan to be) and had her own station built at Penwyllt so she could travel by train without having to ride to Cray station. The story works well with Rebecca's channel theme of famous women too - a win win 👍
Her own train-station. That's a diva, huh? :)
hi paul and rebecca , really interesting video again , loved the bit at the end lol , well done and thank you :)
Cheers Davie.
Fascinating! I had no idea there had been another. An idea before its time bolstered by inadequate technology and geological data, perhaps.The current tunnel had quite a few difficulties too. One breach was actually sealed from above at low tide- there is a 45 foot tidal range at Clevedon Pier- second only to The Bay of Fundy ( in Canada between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ).
I'm learning a lot from the comments alone here
Fascinating story. Super video too. Thanks for posting it
Cheers Michael.
As always excellent video. There have been a few attempts at building a crossing over the Severn below Gloucester. Have a look at the Enock Williams pontoon bridge, at Newnham, and not too far from this tunnel. Enock Williams was the owner of the Aust to Beachley Ferry’s, another story in its own right.
Another fascinating gem from you. I had never heard of this tunnel before.
Cheers Mervyn, we knew about it but had no idea how it was related to Bullo Pill.
Absolutely no previous knowledge of any of this, so thank you! Really interesting, I need to find out more!
Fascinating little story isn't it
@@pwhitewickEverything about it is fascinating, including the tramway in general. I don’t know why this is not widely known, because it ought to be!
@@malcolmsmith6615 It could be a hollywood movie or at least a quirky feel good (or not so good) bbc movie
Wow, I lived 13 miles from Cinderford for more than 10 years and visited the Forest of Dean frequently; my father was also interested in industrial archeology, and yet I had never heard of the Bullo Pill tramway, nor the earlier attempt at tunneling under the river Severn, before today!
The Bullo Pill line makes for some wonderful walks.
Very interesting tale. The Great Western tunnel was delayed because the Great Spring broke, must have been a clockwork train ;)
Daaaaad! 😂
Always with the facts and interesting stories you two!
Thank you Scott
... and that's how Rebecca will be remembered... as the hoarder of the m and m's
Great work and very close to my Home
Thank you. We actually covered the Bullo Pill line so this fitted nicely
I love your tunnel videos. Probably because I have been through quite a few in my boat
You need to take me through one, one day soon. (That sounded weird as I typed.... ).
@@pwhitewick This will sound weird too. We must make that a dare! We just need to get back to some sort of normality and we can pick a tunnel. I do intend to head north, so Harecastle tunnel will be on my agenda
@@TrevsTravelsByNarrowboat we are game.... most definitely
@@pwhitewick I have sent you a request on facebook as Trevor Travels IM is a little more private to discuss plans in the future
So... What did the researcher find out? Why was the man and his wife shot? What happened next? You left us in suspenders.
Wellllll..... thats where the story ends we don't really know. We assume that the the investors lost so much money which kicked off a recession.... Tippings name was not popular.
@@pwhitewick Such a shame. And not entirely fair to Tippings.
I tend to assume all the engineering works were instigated by the railway building after the S&DR. And I know I’m wrong because of the canal building and little tramway enterprises like this one. Fascinating. Thanks.
".. links in the dooblydoo below..." where have I heard that before... ;-D
Vlog brothers.... 🤪
Top stuff guys..
Fascinating stuff - thanks for this fascinating factoid - I’m now going to annoy my family with this new found tunnelling facts! 😆
We looooove a good factoid
Thanks again always a interesting videos thank you so much from NZ
Thanks Terry
Enjoyed that interesting story from the shire l am sure local industrial archaeology group did a full survey of the the remains on the banks of the severn. Also it was on the channel 4 documentary Britain at low tide.
Great video, lovely couple... Subscribed!
Thank you Chris
My old friend Lucy Swainson used to run the Red Lion ar arlingham
Have to investigate the Isle of Wight tunnel that was stated to be dug in the new forest
Yup on the cards I feel. Lymington side, right!?
You should make a video about the passage at Newnham. People claim to have walked across at low tide.
Gday Paul and Rebecca love the video and history.
Very interesting video about an early attempt to build under the seven. Luckily all the navvies managed to get out!!😎🚂🚃🚃🇬🇧
Interesting story, Don't think I've heard about that before.
Yippee I've done it, I've caught up with all your fantastic video's. I now need to finish catching up with Rebecca's Nest!
£20,000 in 1805 England is equivalent to about £1.7 million in 2021. Not to be sneezed at!
Barely enough to make it worthwhile tendering for that PPE contract!
Easily within the reach of a CEO bonus though.
Excellent video guys 🙂🍻🥂👍🏻
A very interesting video,
Well done....🙂👍🏼👍🏼
Very interesting and nicely presented as usual. Just a thought.... TV news tonight did a brief piece about old railway lines that people are planning to try and get re-opened. Maybe this could be a new line of material for you? don't know? just an idea....
Cheers Robin. Appreciated. Lots of plans in the making.
I's good to hear about my tunnel
Indeed I suspect it is Edmund!
Poor Paul. All that work and no M&Ms for him. 🍭🤣
YES!!!
The red lion is in Arlingham NOT Arlington. I'm not usually that fussed but I'm a local.
Yup, we messed that bit up!....
Great!!! Fascinating information, I never knew about this tunnel. P.S. I like "M&M's" too ☺
Me too.... that was completely the issue
@@pwhitewick LOL!!
Rebecca, try the dark chocolate M&M's. And buy enough for Paul, they are the best!
Ooooh, they sound good ~ never heard of 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 ones.👍
Interesting as ever. Is that Keith Walker from Bristol? I know of someone here in Horfield with that name.
What about getting time team to sort it,that kink in the roman road
My home town of cinderford is mentioned 😊
What tunnel is pictured at 4:52?
Thats the Bullo Pill Tunnel that Tipping originally built in 1810 as a tramroad tunnel. Longest in the world!
Great and so interesting. Thank you for that. I like m and ms too.
Tasty right
Very good 🙂🚂🚂🚂
Another greta video both ! who knew Rebecca is a secret sweet eater !.... I have one of those in my house !
I for one wouldn't mind reveling in Rebecca's delights. 😆 For the sake of clarity, I mean those of the Quality Street variety.
Thank you, very interesting. I've just discovered your channel and have subscribed. Rebecca - please share your sweeties next time 😉😊🚂
Welcome Ian
Great now I want some m&m's! 😋🤣
So good!
Loved the outtake. Did either of the Tipping survive the shooting? Whodunnit?
Both survived apparently
Local to me, worth a mooch!
Go careful near the edge!
@@pwhitewick driving the 48 for years, I've seen that depression on the bank and wondered what it was. I've taken a few break times at bullo, there was an old boat at one of those pills. Never had time to approach people to see if I could look.
Paul (or Rebecca :) ), just an item of curiosity from a non-British viewer. Who actually owns these old abandoned railroad right of ways? From the drone shots overhead, that's quite a fair bit of land left to go wild on this one. Thank you!
Thats a massive question we shall be address one day very soon
@@pwhitewick Thank you!
The trackbed remains within the ownership of the Highways Agency Historical Railways Estate. until it is sold off. The same applies to structures, which are still being examined by the way.
Old railway trackbeds are retained until the DfT decide that there is no need for them, after which they can be/are sold.
Ingress onto old track formations frequently happens and because there is no-one actively managing the former property little if anything is done about it.
If someone uses land for a period of time without the land owner objecting (10 years I seem to recall), then ownership of that passes to the person occupying or using the land.
Also, councils can own former trackbeds and convert them to cycle or walkways. By doing this it means that in the future if they want to, they can reinstate the line with the minimum of fuss!
@@mrlister2000 The BRBR was abolished in 2013 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRB_(Residuary)_Limited. Most of the legacy property is now owned by the Highways Agency Historical Railways Estate.
@@mrlister2000 This happened to the Bathgate - Airdrie cyclepath that was on the old trackbed of one of the Edinburgh to Glasgow routes. The railway was reinstated in 2012.
A doo-bee-doo is a mop.
What about a dooblee doo
Cool
Thanks
Is a doobledoo the same as a whatchamacallit and a thingamajig??
Nooooooo. A whatchamacallit is tangible... surely?.... a doobledoo is more.... erm..... well.... non tangible. I guess.
@@pwhitewick so how do you explain a thingamjig? 😅🤣
Hmmmmm.... neither or until you open the box
I am suprised you got away with using the word 'sod' (sod cut) as I was warned by CZcams about using the phrase 'dicky birds'.
Very good point David. I did consider rephrasing
They pulled you up over the word sod, yet I watch other videos were people swear their heads off and these are allowed?
Not to mention certain British towns.
would you share your last rolo/m&m NO!!
Erm.... ok OK you got me. No
So the builder of the failed tunnel was shot five times and his wife once? Did they survive? Was the shooter hung? More please!
ArlingHAM!! NOT ArlingTON!! ArlingHAM!!! First time our lovely little village has been mentioned on CZcams and you get the name wrong! Public apology please! (Love the videos BTW)
I know!!.... sincerest apologies offered. 🤪
Was just going to reply to say 'Arlingham' but was beaten to it. I have friends who live there and used to run The Old Passage Inn which is actually on the banks of the Severn where a ferry used to run across to Newnham, almost over the place where it seems the tunnel was going to be. Didn't know anything about the tunnel until your video so thanks (even if you got the place name wrong!
@@pwhitewick Only joshing - think your videos are great! You should come and try the Rd Lion when lockdown finally comes to an end.
nords been hacked so many times . even nord doesnt know any more.
Seriously... does Rebecca only have one pair of trousers?!
Roood.
But they did build a Forth tunnel in 1964 ;)
'Longest tunnel in the wowld.'. lol
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Works a dream for us on Safari
@@pwhitewick Well not for me, perhaps there’s something wrong with the your link.
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Can you imagine opening your door and getting shot five times , yes that will teach him to post hurty words on ye olde Facebook lol
Very rude not sharing ur sweets, I'm sure the present tunnel in use was the 3rd if not 4th attempt, I could be wrong but didn't they try do go through at sudbrook or blackrock p.s. have you seen james fox ghost train green park to templecombe or barntaple to Ilfracombe, i think you'd like them.
hang on did i miss something?? feels like half a video not nasty or anything maybe because of covid
Just a short one this week indeed. We are staying local untill the end of March so a tad short on content!
From this video it isn't very clear as to what you found what remains or doesn't on site of the actual first tunnel - surely not the tunnel you walked thru...
M&M`s rude..
Tunnel construction is boring.
Bridge construction is riveting etc. etc.
I'm sorry that you can't dig it.
.....thud
That was quite a confused presentation. You show all sorts of scenes without telling us what they were, the tunnel you showed was clearly not the tunnel in question and only the drawn maps explained much.
Owing to nationwide lockdown Ted, we have to tell stories locally. So every backdrop you saw was just that, a generic local location. Hopefully the story flowed though.
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LOL. The last quarter of the video is advertising junk.
Lolzzzzzz
What happened to the Covid lockdown rules ?
What seems to be the problem Ian?
@@pwhitewick Just asking
@@ianlitchfield9273 ok well the Lockdown rules are still in place u til the 29th March 2021 when they start easing. Does that answer you question? 👍
You can travel for work - which a lot of people do. Filming this video comes under that criteria and I'm sure covid rules were complied with during it.
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