Bradford-Halifax Tunnel Cycleway Campaign

[classic33]

PHOTOGRAPHS have emerged showing the extent of controversial works in Queensbury Tunnel which campaigners want to reopen as an active travel route.
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co...rs-hit-controversial-queensbury-tunnel-works/

The Colliery Arches

 

[sheddy]

Off topic, but the Rhondda Tunnel group have shown how it could be done.
https://www.rhonddatunnelsociety.co.uk

 

[classic33]

Off topic, but the Rhondda Tunnel group have shown how it could be done.
https://www.rhonddatunnelsociety.co.uk

It could, but the current mess has come about because a £49 bill for a water pump went unpaid. On the western end of the Queensbury Tunnel, they allowed it to be flooded for fishing.

From Shaft Four onwards, the tunnel slopes towards Calderdale, and a council ward where the ward councillors are not prepared to back the project. Shaft Two was filled in due to a lightning strike damaging it. Shaft Three is the one that was actually hit, many years ago, but Shaft Two was easier reach.

No attempt was made to divert the water entering at the Queensbury end, back down the narrow channel built for this purpose. Less than a foot deep and of a similar width. It fed into a natural watercourse on the opposite side.

Any attempt to reopen the tunnel now is going to have all the infill material removed, from below in the tunnel.

A boundary review, under way, might just see the whole tunnel and approaches fall under one constituency. Not the two it does at present.

 

[NorthernDave]

From the Queensbury Tunnel Facebook group:

You’ll be aware that National Highways’ retrospective planning application to retain the infill at Great Musgrave bridge in Cumbria is now being considered.

What the state-owned roads company committed here was an act of vandalism under the pretence of protecting public safety. Sound familiar? They claimed that this masonry arch structure - with significant reserves of strength - might “fail” and “collapse” despite inspection reports demonstrating that it was in generally good condition. This was a distortion of reality, intended to drive through a destructive scheme shattering the aspirations of the Eden Valley and Stainmore railways who intend to unite by relaying the line below the structure.

Consultation on the planning application officially ends on Wednesday. If you haven’t already done so, please OBJECT. It takes two minutes and can be done online via Eden District Council’s planning portal…

https://tiny.cc/GreatMusgrave

Guidance on local and national policies you might want to quote is available here…

http://thehregroup.org/structures/greatmusgrave