Great Oxendon Tunnel, Leicestershire - Oct '14

[Punk]

Explored with Stranton, The Wombat and a non-member​

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History​

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The Northampton to Market Harborough line opened in 1859 and had tunnels at Great Oxendon and nearby Kelmarsh. The original tunnel was single-track (422M), and when the line was doubled a second single-track tunnel was built. The second tunnel had an airshaft, and is now a cycle path all the way to Northampton. The line closed in 1981.​

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Explore​

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Cheers for Looking​

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[hamtagger]

Damn that is very nice mate, 3 and 4 my favourites and the last one, cool report

 

[wellingtonian]

Liking that a lot 

 

[Lenston]

Gotta love a tunnel

 

[Merryprankster]

what a lovely eggy shaped tunnel

 

[The_Raw]

2014? Bit of a backlog there mate :lol:  Looks good in there, wtf is that brown sludge though? :-o

 

[Punk]

2014? Bit of a backlog there mate :lol:  Looks good in there, wtf is that brown sludge though? :-o

I'm not exactly sure what the brown crap is, all I can tell you is that is a bitch to get off your boots.

I've got quite a backlog, about 50 reports going back to July 2012. Not sure if I can be bothered to post them all.

 

[Urbexbandoned]

The water looks a bit shitty.. Hope you took ya wellies  

Nice mate  

 

[Punk]

The water looks a bit shitty.. Hope you took ya wellies  

Nice mate  

Cheers, unfortunately I lost a pair of trainers to this tunnel  :x

 

[PlacesThatWere]

I like the oval shape of the tunnel. Pic #5 is my favorite. The little stalactites are cool!

 

[Racheluk1]

That’s so cool!