Abandoned Woodside Tunnels And Monks Tunnels UnderGround Birkenhead
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- čas přidán 7. 11. 2023
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ABANDONED WOODSIDE AND MONKS TUNNELS BIRKENHEAD WITH THE MONKS TUNNEL OPENED IN 1844 TO REPLACE GRANGE LANE STATION WHICH THEN BECAME A GOODS YARD.
WOODSIDE TUNNEL AND STATION OPENED IN 1878 AND CLOSED TO TRAINS AND PASSENGERS AFTER THE BECHING REPORT. WOODSIDE CLOSED IN IN 1967
THE WOODSIDE TUNNEL IS 889 YARDS LONG AND THE MONKS TUUNNEL 460 YARDS.
AS FOR ME I LOVED DOING THESES TWO ON MY OWN VERY EARLY IN THE MORNING AND SOME FANTASTIC VIEWS OF LIVERPOOL TO, THESE TUNNELS ARE ON COUNCIL PUBLIC LAND.
NO TRESSPASS. - Zábava
Love these videos Dave!! Thank you very much!!! ♥♥♥
Thankyou and theres loads more to come including more wirral and a trip away to.
Brilliant Dave. Very interesting.
Thankyou loved putting it together glad you liked it.👌
great vid mate from a birkenhead lad
Thankyou mate loved doing it, you seen the other from birkenhead best on channel but think this will top that.
Brilliant video mate, keep them coming 👍🏻
Thankyou and will do av got more coming😎
Great vid do the bidston tunnels
Thankyou, there still sealed i think but yer would love to do them
Excellent video Dave - fascinating. Local history unknown to most people. Keep it up but take care down there!!
Thanks Neil and i will. just working on the next from the wirral now looking good.😎
brilliant video so well filmed and edited as ever plus loads of very interesting history included too so very well rounded and you smashed it! looking forward to the paranormal video and hope you are doing ok.
Thanks Paula it was a good one to do had me eye on them for awile. ill speek to you on insta soon av got some news about something. Hope your both ok am having bit time of till next month but still working on a few things.
Great video, we loved seeing all the abandoned tunnels. We have never ventured into this type of area before. Well done
Thankyou and yes its a great set of tunnels and very famous here. i have another to do soon very very famous tunnels wink wink.😎
Great and interesting content. I enjoyed watching it and loved it
Thanks Anna it was a good video to puy together but wow i was so tired😂 Stay safe Anna .
Where's ours do you start I'm A Scouser too
Brilliant. I sit on that bench and just admire the views ❤
Thanks Terina it was so cool doing this, took me two days to edit😬but its well worth it to see all your great comments.
Hi, very early start for you today. It's great looking around the old train tunnels. we have so many abandoned tunnels in Merseyside that they must have used them to dump all the rubbish great views of the city of Liverpool,very informative content very much appreciate your videos 👍
Thanks Martin and yes theres loads hidden away, well except the other two i know about😎 which i will try and get very soon. And liverpool is looking so good now a right little manhatton, Thanks Martin.
cool love it
Great content came across your channel a few days ago, You have a New Subscriber 👍
Thankyou Very much and Welcome To the Channel, Loads to come😀
Cool explore
Thanks Naomi Hope Your well... i might be coming over to usa next year as am heading to salam we maybe able to meet up for a explore maybe.
Wow absolutely awsome,i live in wirral,and have always,wondered,what they were like,,thanku,,but please be carefull
Thankyou and i will. got more coming from the wirral very soon😀
13:10 that’s what’s called a clothes mangle, they were used up to the early 1970s and you put your clothes between the 2 rollers and turned the handle and it would squeeze all the water out. Kids often got their fingers trapped between the rollers and it didn’t half hurt 😂
Thought it was me nan had one but alot bogger,, me grandad use to put his flat cap through it we thought it was funny as kids
5:49 Those recesses are called “refuge’s” used by the track workers to get away from the tracks when a train passed by
yes deadmans holes think they were called to.
great vid mate so sad they demolish history like that train station
Yer doctor Beaching report broke the railways in this country,, they should av all been kept. Think Birkenhead would of been used today if it was still open. Cheers.
thats not a shopping trolly its a birkenhead barbeque
😂 thats so funny never thought of it like that brilliant👌
Sweet 👍
Cheers Bob😀
@@EXPLORINGWITHMEDAVE great video dave love it when it's my neck the woods some great history 👍
12:03 that is an old roller for flattening bumps out in lawns would have been in someone’s garden once
44:15 yeah spot on the track level was way down below where you are standing they have tipped a lot of earth which has filled the cutting up over half way I reckon
Yes its about 18 feet in spoil from old buildings that have been demolished,, like all councils out of sight out of mind.
Hey mate thanks for videoing these tunnels, in particular, the Woodside tunnel. Many years ago when the Woodside end of the tunnel was open you could walk all the way through. But the end you came in was backfilled to about the same as it is now. Anyway I started to walk through but I lost me bottle, I got about as far as where those arches in the roof stop. I wish I’d had the balls to walk through but was scared I might see a ghost hahah 😂 But I didn’t think anyone else could get in them now as the Woodside end is all bricked up.
You know where you stopped when you came to that wall and changed your torch? Was that the other side of the bricked up end at Woodside? I thought the tunnel was a lot longer. Someone said that tons and tons of concrete foam had been used to fill the spaces up in the tunnel so that the houses above wouldn’t collapse into the tunnel.
yer the blocked up portal was the way into woodside station, think the tunnel was just sealed at both ends when it was finished been used..the tunnel into dingle station had all the concrete and foam put into it as it collapsed in and the housers above were in danger. Big concrete block doen there now and a owner who wont let anyone down there, not sure if the garadge is still open... thanks for watching and we heading underground in wales for a 24 hour marathon explore in one of the biggest undergound mines in the uk,, coming soon.
@@EXPLORINGWITHMEDAVEYou are doing a great job. You are contributing to lots of people learning more about their environment. Even though the authorities frown on URBEX, without you guys, so much of history would be lost. But mate, always look after your safety first and don’t put yourself into danger. Your safety and life is worth more than the URBEX. Great work though.
As for the Dingle Tunnel you mentioned yeah a real shame the owner has no plans for it. I always say that the Dingle tunnel could be reopened with a suitable amount of money but it could be used as an amazing heritage centre. The roof could be repaired and the concrete foam removed and the station restored. They could even put some track back in and run the restored class 502 Merseyrail train they are working on. They could even run a monorail train from the open end to the Albert Docks … imagine how cool that would be to take a ride elevated on a monorail train to see the edge of the Mersey and the docks all the way back to Dingle where you change and get in the old restored Merseyrail train through the Dingle tunnel into the old station. It would be amazing
Wow mate thankyou for this comment it blew me away. Yes your right i do need to be more carfull at 50 think i have no choice😂 What a idea for dingle wonder if anyone has had that idea. you may need to take that to someone might just be something the city might take up. is the garadge still open. but wow the more i read this the better it sounds. Why dont you see if someone will take alook at it maybe a partnership between the council merseytravel and the maritime museum. Didnt know about the class 502 getting preserved were that getting done, just hope we get to keep a 507-508 to allthough think 2 units maybe to much... Thanks Again Mate for this comment loved it.
Hey mate have you thought about getting into the Tranmere tunnels?
yer but dont know were the entrance is, we did try bidston bunkers awile back but it was sealed, you know way in?
Top of green lane, arch way by Corinthian motors in the cliff face .
Fabulous, enjoyed watching this on my big screen. Always wondered what condition the two tunnels were in these days mate. The first one which went to Woodside, ran underneath the edge of my Nanas house in Water Street, you could hear them pass under the warehouse which was three doors down. And the Monks Ferry tunnel, I vividly remember as a kid aged about ten, regularly climbing up onto a nicely bricked rectangular wall, just north of Ivy Street. It was built with the same ornate brickwork as the tunnel outlet for Monks Ferry terminus that you identified by them new flats on Church St. Anyway, the rectangular shaped brick wall, that I climbed up, you could see down deep like a rectangular pit, and the train track deep below. So, I guess it was like a large blow hole for steam to outlet from the tunnel. Always fascinated me, looking down there, as I didn’t know why a train would run there, and where too. I only found out in the last ten years thanks to www.railmaponline.com when you set the filters and layers you get the old track route, similar to what you showed on your video as an overlay map. I must have had a fascination with the railways when I was little, cos not only did I regularly climb up on the wall to look down onto the monks ferry tunnel outlet, I also used to climb a wall near my grandma and grandads on argyle street south. The resulting view was of a ruck of sidings, and loads of old underground trains all parked up. I forget the unit names, think they were 503’s. The same ones that in the mid to late 70s were the main stock used on the underground. Loved those trains, with their flickering lamp light, wooden panels, fabric seats. Great days, which come rushing back to me again now 50 years later thanks to your amazing presentation here! Well done bud. Si.
Train tracks have been fenced off now
yer noticed that mate, they putting new and higher fences up to
Return visit with more light dude soon
Yer was thinking that,,Maybe lighting the hole tunnel up some how.