so there's actually someone else in the tunnel now
but this is completely curved so presumably in the middle it will be pitch dark it is indeed
deliberately carved into the embankment it was right by the viaduct as well
yeah right by the divider just north of the two tunnels
good morning everybody um welcome to where are we simon where are we not that i've
introduced you , so this is simon everybody hello we're in glenfarg just north of glenfarg
yeah just north of glenfarg heading towards path
and um we're looking just a short punchy little video today we're
looking for a couple of tunnels and a couple of viaducts yep two viaducts two tunnels okay
and what line do we find ourselves on today uh we're on the glenfarg railway it's going for our
road as simple as that okay it's easy it makes it nice and easy um i think we're coming up to
possibly the tunnel number one is that coming up on the glenfarg
which immediately leads into glenfarg south tunnel excellent now we're not gonna punch
loads of different random facts about this because simon's already made a very good video about this
very detailed all sorts of weird and wonderful quirks about this tunnel
a long time ago it wasn't six years ago i believe so that's right and that's how we found simon and
we've been talking for about about a year now i suspect and we've been meaning to go to scotland
and we thought now we're here it'll be rude not to say hello to simon and get a little tour from him
so first stop glenfarg viaduct um very beautiful so it must have been had grand aspirations this
is the main line yeah the only reason it's no longer the main line is that they stall over
the track bed for the m90 oh right okay so if you were coming up the m90 glenfarg village the
m90 runs across the old station along the track there and then north of the tunnels uh the end
maintenance runs down the hill on the old trackbed as well, right and so when was it closed uh closed
in 1970 so it's a much later quality yeah most of them it wasn't a beaching cut it was purely
they do the motivation our our um scottish railway work is slimmer than english where we work because
this is there's not a lot of room there is there if i'm thinking i've gotta get out of the way
so we're just talking with simon it's a it's a very beautiful portal as
often railway tunnels are and now this was one of the first or it was the first i believe
it's either the first or one of the first to use concrete in its entirety to line the tile yep okay
so we've got beautiful portal and then we've got a from concrete all the way
through on the inside there's no wonderful bits of masonry to look out brickwork
but perhaps you know perhaps then they were thinking this is this is a new fangled technology
this concrete is a wonderful money-saving um you know kind of the joke for me is obviously
this pioneer the concrete and then you know the famous glen finnen viaduct which everyone knows
that harry potter is just this big concrete thing similar to a 1960s car park yeah yes
there's a few of these in both of the tunnels and that gives you an idea of the thickness
of the concrete oh wow and that they're basically inspection holes and so they plug that through so
trade quality of inspection or whatever it was looking and see how thick the lighting was so
this is an original feature yeah and i believe the quote is it was the concrete was declared
infinitely better than the stone and brick wow i might get that quote wrong that's a half decent
size compared to the underneath isn't it you can see you can see the original rock cover yeah yeah
so that's separate to the rest i have no idea how they would however go about laying concrete in a
tunnel but so so the section down the middle like you said they're almost the keystone
part is separate although it looks so doesn't it i'd imagine that maybe because it's new to them
they've tried to apply it as close to the old brick style or the yeah yeah and make them really
style as they can yeah thinking oh we do need some kind of um you know point there where the other
butt's against it there we go um so we're probably 150 yards from the end now we certainly just
started the curve so were there any construction shafts do we know i don't think so in this tunnel
i've been over the top and i'm not seeing anything yeah nothing obvious i think it might be in the
second one okay so we've made it to the northern portal of the um the first glimmer tunnel um
quite interesting certainly very unique in terms of what we've seen before with um
concrete lined right so onwards to divide up to another tunnel uh next we've got another tunnel
this side here yep so you've got like the stone work and then the brick yep and then the
stonework stops yep and the concrete starts but the brick carries on all the way down the middle
the bookcase for the roof and then you get halfway in and then it's all concrete and then when you
get to the other side it mirrors itself so it kind of ends when it starts okay very curious isn't it
these are the things you never really get to find out what was going through
the heads of the contractors that built it and why they did that sort of thing
and this tunnel as well unlike the last one is completely curved
okay and how far are we talking compared to the last one remind me again sorry this one
was 517 this one's 507 it's really not okay no difference really but this is completely curved
so do you think we're looking at a um shaft point then that's certainly yeah and is that the ovary
so that was the only one potentially only one i've ever located or think i'm located but it
it just screams shaft to me whatever another is i don't know i've got no proof one way or
the other though everyone looks more obvious doesn't it it's obviously something i mean why
else would there be so much water damage around that in a square shape right in the center of the
northern end of glenfarg north complete two tunnels ticked off for today
one violet and we've got one more violet to go yeah one more it's a bit
it gets a bit lost in the woods but it's nice when you find it yeah okay sounds perfect
so i'm guessing we're looking at a little platelayers
I guess maybe i'm something something to do with the railway anyway um I'm going to say
it's a playlist because it's deliberately carved into the embankment it's right by the viaduct
as well yeah right by the way just north of the two tunnels you do that I think you're 99% right
oh there
what a little treat this is i'm sure it's a platelayers that we've seen very similar before
um even got a little shovel in here people a little shovel for the for the fire that's
original i don't know but it could well be because it's it's only the end of the shovel
very much similar to the broader counties line rebecca yeah um almost it's made out of sleepers
well what that was a treat in half here look do i see inside it's really cool
simon the local who pointed out this plate layers hut to us has not been in it before
so um that's a crime yeah i'm sorry i just keep walking faster isn't that amazing i mean that's
really nice yeah little little it's a painless hat every day of the week i'm sure it's made out of
sleepers it's got a little fireplace in it it's next to the rowing it's the viaduct as you say
but we're going to try and climb down and join rebecca again without breaking something rebecca's
filming just in case we do break something and we'll both film something to say something
oh wow even still yeah it's really difficult for you to see the scale on camera um and it's
really difficult for us to show you in pictures because it's so well hidden um and it's so well
uh covered it's certainly this time of year and i think it's even worse from this south side
one last treat for the day before we sign off a couple of abandoned cottages which sounds
like we're some kind of urbex exploring channel all of a sudden let's do that
oh
but we should call this video abandoned cottage in the woods
yeah you've got a bit of twig over your lens and I've ruined about being on the phone as well
yeah so we've done two of the glenfarg tunnels or all of the glenfarg tunnels it was that way
um two viaducts very beautiful and abandoned cottages well how about that for a little bit
big thanks to simon for joining us today and giving us a guided tour which i believe he's
given to a thousand people you need to start charging probably some yeah i'll do the full
tour of 19.95 per head right thanks big thanks simon um we'll see you next time
so there's actually someone else in the tunnel now
make it sound like it's a scary experience even though i look like just a regular couple going
for a walk don't don't ruin the click bait on them that's why i'm here this is the hook