hi peeps welcome to a video clearly, obviously, about tunnels, really obviously clearly obviously,
all that because of the title you would have already seen before exactly yeah yeah so that
implies that we always do video about tunnels but we don't always do videos about tunnels do
videos at landscape um right anyway so when we when we make a title for a video we often
have to, not click bait it, but we have to give a really catchy title real something that
grips you i don't think we're going to do that for this video i think Kettleness and Sandsend
are pretty self-explanatory everybody knows about kettleness and sandsned but we're also going to
add a little bit more of a twist this and we're going to try and find some of the original tunnels
six more tunnels that were planned on this line plus greenfield to the north but six tunnels were
planned in the deviation act in 1873. let's go and find those two tunnels and maybe the six more,
we're not gonna find six more we're going to find evidence of where they went we'll find the spaces
so you join us today back on the whitby red car and middlesbrough union railway
in our last video we visited all the stations on this famous route
today though is all about the tunnels because apparently you lot love tunnels
so ultimately along this line there are three tunnels completed although that wasn't the
original plan the most northernly tunnel we won't be visiting because it's actually used as a quarry
line today that's grinkel tunnel we are however trying to visit sansend and kettleness tunnels
and we've now come to the first tunnel on this line so the first tunnel was sandsend and it's
a mile long tunnel it's straight for a very long way and i think it curves for about 300 yards
to the east for its last section now looking ahead of us right now they've really gone to town
on sealing this up if you have a look at some old youtube videos online you'll see that people have
got inside from this end but they've really really gone to town on blocking this up haven't they
it's safe in here someone has graffitied on the brickwork
um but yeah quite a lot of um signs saying danger keep out restricting their business etc
so as we leave the southern end of sandsend tunnel because you cannot get anywhere close to
it in terms of inside it as we leave that southern entrance we're not going to walk over the top and
go and try and find the northern portal to kettleness
where you may be able to come through it and see the other portals in between the two tunnels
so before we begin our journey north to see if we can get into the other end of sandsend tunnel
let's have a look at the original routes because they tell a fascinating story
in the first instance only one tunnel was planned back in 1866 it was called easington
and now grinkel various alterations were made to grinkle including its shortening and despite
a number of other changes and challenges on the route the deviation act was not obtained until
1873 staggeringly this act contained six further tunnels as well as grinkel tunnel
the engineer stated that the headings for these short tunnels along the coast were already driven
so presumably this occurred long before the act actually to build these tunnels had been obtained
so if we head over to real map online you can see the blue line as a final route chosen ultimately
built by north eastern railway after they rescued the original company from bankruptcy
handily the 1873 deviation is marked here on the map in lilac and the section here is according
to the engineer report the section that had six tunnels that had already started right on the
edge of the coastline so if we flip now over to national library of scotland maps we can find that
at least one of these maps contains at least one of these ill-fated tunnels but we can only find
one so as we scroll up and down the coastline and we see that one tunnel that they have included on
the map now we must take into consideration that the engineer did say he had completed the headings
for six tunnels six short tunnels along that route now no evidence appears to be shown today for that
we did however find online one picture showing the heading for the tunnel on what is the keldholm
point so this is what we we guess is looking north east and the arrow at the bottom there is pointing
to what would be the southern heading for that corner tunnel now that is as far as we can see
that any evidence or any picture that does depict the exact location of one of these mystery tunnels
that gives you an idea of the craziness of the the six tunnels that were going to be used here
and how and look at the cliff edge look how much is eroding away you can't even see the alignment
there was an alignment there but you can't even see that alignment because of how much the eclipse
have eroded and slipped and that was going to be a railway so perhaps the railway along this route
wasn't really ideal because it would have cost a fortune to maintain so you join us now back
at the northern end of the northern tunnel which is kettleness where we're heading back south so
kettleness itself was built on a complete curve and was 350 yards long unlike sandsend which
to itself was 1,652 yards long so as i say you join us now heading south into kettleness tunnel
okay really breezy really really breezy i don't need my jumper don't even jumper, no
right breeze it's good that means airy yeah okay
right countless 307 yards long the first of the two tunnels from the north because we came over
the top because you couldn't get in from the south of sansend so um let's see how we get on
i can just see now that the light on the southern end oh sorry northern end because
we're coming from the north um if i look that way i can't see the other end as yet
now if it's only 350 yards long that obviously indicates quite a tight curve
um yeah so lots of recesses here's a huge recess here now interestingly
oh wow okay that's why i said wow because obviously what we're looking at there is
you might just see some light down there
southern entrance here probably halfway is not a recess beautiful arched piece over and here
up there goes out towards coast and what that is or was is
where they would put the spoil or the the waste from inside the tunnel they were building
and they dumped out to see that's amazing let's get to take some pickies
up
i'm positive
that i could get over but i don't better get back which isn't ideal so we may call this a day at
so as you saw i didn't really fancy climbing that wall by myself not knowing if i could get back
over and of course scaling the gap between the two tunnels a friend of ours however called matt who
runs his own youtube channel check out the link in the description below matt managed to do just that
and have a look at the northern portal of sansend so we're going to hand over to matt for a couple
of minutes just to see that journey between the two tunnels yeah that was good team that was good
now the main question is uh how the hell do we get out
all right this is a little bit leaky
all right okay so this is locked
oh that's really good um okay wow this bit is super super overgrown um
what's the best way to get out
all right give me one second i'm just going to climb over and see how we get on but yeah that was
Kettleness, really good all right now we should be coming to sandsend tunnel shortly....
there's just so many weeds ah oh my god so i've got my first glimpse of the portal
at sandend now this bit is completely overgrown now i would have gone through
sansend tunnel but i know for a fact that it is blocked at the other side so there's obviously
no point in going all the way there i will still have a brief look but i'm not going to
go all the way through the tunnel because i will be stuck but yeah this bit is uh
yeah well and truly overgrown this is yeah that actually looks pretty dangerous honestly
so at this point the actual entrance of the tunnel has collapsed um
i imagine it's because of the different landslips in the area
yeah this definitely feels a lot more unstable than compared to the tunnel over at Kettleness
so massive thanks to matt for his help with the video you can subscribe to his channel
in the description below matt makes lots of interesting videos about running underground lines
so something again transport related for you there so thanks for watching this video really
has been for us about looking for the physical evidence albeit online because we really didn't
fancy scaling the cliff of the six tunnels that were built apparently according to the engineer
in around 1870 we didn't find a great deal in terms of the old maps but it was good
fun to have a research so the question is to you can you find any evidence yourself
looking at some old maps and maybe some lidar and what can be seen along that stretch of the coast
adjacent to sansend and kettleness tunnels. This is just for fun you know
that's really cool um yeah it's so you can inside it is the audit it goes through and
up into the sea so i went in there a little bit and took it over two reasons but it's it's
20.9 the whole way oh cool um i didn't go too far into it because they haven't helped on me
and it's really shale and there's shell on the floor and it's just like yeah if you just
knock it with your finger i reckon it'll fall off so it's quite dangerous in that respect
but air quality is completely fine um it's very breezy so that's what you'd expect
this could be the end of the video if this is the end of the video thank you for watching
um it's been thoroughly a joyous coastal walk for us it's been gorgeous it's been
very gorgeous we've tried to find some old tunnels not been hugely successful but perhaps
so when we have a look online you may find us more successful but in the meantime we'll um
leave you from a very windy north east coast of england until next time hold on it stopped
everything things are north east coast of the uk
the scarborough to whitney or should we do whitney to
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