and there's footprints and there is horse hoves, there's bike tracks
there's everything so sorry you're gonna stop you can't use that you said......
so i just looking through facebook the other day and a friend of mine who lives here
um said oh we're just exploring some of the old tunnels in Whitchurch and i said um tunnels in
which i don't know the tunnels and we're church and it turns out there's like three or four
how did we not know this i feel ashamed rebecca you should feel ashamed i know we live like
four miles from this location and apparently there's three or four tunnels i didn't know
and we'd never get to see this if we were actually just doing the line properly
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number two when is a tunnel not a tunnel what defines a tunnel i don't know what does the final
tunnel do does it have to go through something that's man-made or not man-made as it were
and does length matter
we're doing a video today from the didcot newbury at southampton railway and we're doing a section
that's fairly close to our house and we're kind of having to look at some of the detail and
we're finding so much more than we would ever have done doing at every disused station where
we go from station to station to station now we're getting very close to this isn't really a tunnel
apparently it's more of an underpass um next to the big old viaduct so we're going to go and have
a look at the viaduct for the first time again something else we probably wouldn't have done in
every district station and apparently there's a tunnel here why was there a tunnel next to
this embankment and underneath the environment next to the viaduct ah here we go here we go
all right son well that's tunnel number one of three or four from today complete
and we think it's for irrigation for the farmer's field perhaps
okay we just approaching the viaduct which looks amazing
and what's even more amazing is the piece of ice the icicle hanging down
can you get can you get a good shot of the uh video rebecca
any good shots at the bottom can't see the viaduct who's that one oh that's tasty
okay so this is this is close to the center of Whitchurch um
we're gonna go have a look at which station the underpasses and all the funky bits and then head
a bit further north so we're gonna try and find the old tunnels that we refer to earlier okay
i love how when bridges were built on a kind of a slight angle they angled all the
bricks as well oh yeah because it's so funny yeah they're apart goes kind of weird yeah
it's probably some church old station you can see up here it's got the gray walls
uh main station building
okay it's around the back now on the public footpath
i'm about to go underneath because the underpass didn't exist right yes
what would you find in fact i found some old gate posts it looks like to the old gate post
with this side of the platform and you go down here and go under to the other side
but we're now walking along a bit in the embankment see what we can see but we're going
to head north and find some old tunnels we'd never get to see this if we were actually just doing the
line properly we'd go and see we're church which we've done before but we wouldn't come and see
what was probably a good yard to the south of which on this embankment and it's beautiful and
there's an old um bridge we're just about to walk across this is so good we'd never do this before
come on rebecca you're a bmx think like a bmx
yes i have no idea how this video is gonna take shapers yeah this is effectively a short punch you
want so hopefully it is well done you normally like plan it ahead not really i just kind of
we just kind of wait i just see i guess you take like our off my favorite video is the sapperton
canal tunnel your favorite we didn't plan it no we just we just put all the clips together and
kind of saw that kind of works and then it comes out okay in the end but you just there's no plan
right so we're north of Whitchurch station and we're carrying on the
trek in this general direction for the search of a couple of tunnels
so basically the question we asked was when is a tunnel a tunnel well this tunnel was built
for the didcot, newbury and southampton railway on the count that it went underneath the london
southwestern railways main line and the station is right above us a witch station on the london
southwestern railway is right bars tantamount to the fact that you can see a train there now
so when the london southwestern railway built their line in 1854 between the base of stoke
and andover and the west southwest main line they didn't really use many tunnels and they
just use these massive embankments to just get their way through the landscape subsequently
when the didcot newbury southampton railway wanted to build
perpendicular to their line through here and to the south they had to bury themselves through one
of those embankments and subsequently they built this tunnel so this tunnel is probably only 100
yards long less than that but it's still it's all longer than some of the tunnels that we've
we've been through like bona fide tunnels that's true it went through the land
so is this a tunnel i suppose it has to be yeah it's a tunnel yeah every day tough one
right before we head further north some more bits and pieces there's another tunnel so yes you've
got this tunnel here um double track tunnel for dikkot new railway um ditko newbie 7th and railway
it's really difficult to think about because i'm so cold yeah
i'm not working yeah there's another tunnel come this way
so this tunnel is parallel to the actual runway tunnel
and it's very strange it's um in terms of its design it kind of dips again in the middle so
my presumption it's fairly wide i'm going to presume however it's like a farm access perhaps
because it's wide enough for a vehicle it's quite tall
right slightly off topic um there's a level 3.5 geocache a 3.5 out of 5. rebecca i mean be careful
so we're having a look to see if we can find that really tricky geocache hasn't been found since
april last year um so yeah yeah size is like two out of five so not micro that's all so the
question is can you see it um we can't but if you have a look and uh yeah look at me panning up and
down and uh yeah can you see it can you stop the camera can you stop the film and see it we can't
always pick up your litter
okay
so not for the first time today we've got to an area where we would have never dreamt of coming
would we no and yet look at it it's a most well torn footpath lovely but it's not marked on the
map we wouldn't have come along here had it not been for our mate faye thanks faye uh telling
us to come along this stretch and it's beautiful isn't it this is this is proper track bed walking
there's birds there's a little bit of snow it's cold but you know what ready it's really pretty
isn't it in the summer when it's all green as well it's gonna be lovely this is this is what a lovely
little walk this is turning out to be i never knew that was only near this picture underneath
it so it's only often that you go underneath the viaduct so you get an appreciation for how
big that is oh god yeah like that and over one we did the other day with dave i did with david
i've got three exactly it's got three big arches
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