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I have driven through these tunnels dozens of times, but you dont really appreciate the scale of them until you see it being built! The only part you see its the top of the circle, i assumed below the road was solid earth but no, they built space for a railway!
http://www.tunnelusers.org.uk/history.htm
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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this is what you see as your drive through
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| Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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Is there actually a railway underneath the road, then?
I remember the Mersey tunnel as confusing my sat nav of several years ago - I ended up going through the fucking thing 3 times each way...
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:54 am Post subject: |
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There is space for a railway but it was never built. There are some clips on the BBC Liverpool sites somwhere of the King opening the first tunnel, crazy when you look back.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Elvis opened the tunnel?
Awesome.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| Blarno wrote: | | Elvis opened the tunnel? |
Uh huh huh, he sure did. Was all shook up after he got his blue suede shoes wet, though. And he wasn't too happy about the hound dogs they had in the security compound either. |
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"Ah now declare this tunnel open. Thanyouverymuch"
*pelvis wiggle
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Is it still £1 to get through?
I'd rather take the ferry cross the Mersey. |
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| Blarno wrote: | "Ah now declare this tunnel open. Thanyouverymuch"
*pelvis wiggle |
I bet there are plenty of suspicious minds regarding what the lower part of the tunnel is used for now. |
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| scamper wrote: | | Blarno wrote: | "Ah now declare this tunnel open. Thanyouverymuch"
*pelvis wiggle |
I bet there are plenty of suspicious minds regarding what the lower part of the tunnel is used for now. |
Especially the bit Way Down under the roadway. Perhaps its used for the Mystery Train. |
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| scamper wrote: | Is it still £1 to get through?
I'd rather take the ferry cross the Mersey. |
£1.20 these days.
(un)fascinating facts of the day:
1) It was the first example of a tunnel boring machine being used for such a large project.
2) My family's workers built the thing. My great, great, great, great (or somesuch bollocks) grandad had a large transport yard on the site where the old tunnel comes out on the Liverpool side. He was offered spondoolics to sell the site, which he did as long as he and his men got jobs there. Our family crest is over the entrance (allegedly).
He then put all his money into buying a racehorse.
which died the second time it ran for him.
None of which I had a clue about until I heard it on Radio City a few years back.
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