Sherwood Rise Tunnel Nottingham City Centre

Opened in 1898 Sherwood Rise Tunnel was part of the Great Central Railway from London Marylebone to Sheffield routed via Leicestershire, initially the first traffic to use the route
was coal and general freight with passenger traffic starting in 1899, Unfortunately most parts of the GCR route were subject to closure during the Beeching cuts in 1968 and became
the first mainline to suffer this fate.
Trains approaching from the north would pass through New Basford Station then into a substantial sandstone cutting before entering Sherwood Rise Tunnel and at it’s deepest was 120ft
from trackbed to surface, after leaving the tunnel train crew would have a short 100yard cutting before disappearing into the darkness of the 1,189yards Mansfield Road Tunnel which
took trains into Nottingham Victoria Station which has long since been demolished. Sherwood Rise tunnels construction is for the most part yellow sandstone walls with a brick roof
spanning between the natural stone walls, there’s several standard sized refuges with two more substantially sized ones.
Today the tunnel stands forlorn and hidden away from public view, the northern end buried to within 5ft of the top coping stones with steel plates covering
the visible section of portal, and the southern end is totally infilled.There’s also a secondary brick & block wall with a tiny access hatch at the southern end which was in place long
before the concrete plug was constructed during remodeling and regeneration in the area.
inside there are still remnants of an indurstrail age lost in time with some cast iron brackets that would have carried signaling wires and some wooden troughs fitted for most of the
tunnels length, there was also a few things left such as a Mars wrapper dating from 1986, a No Frills crisp packet with a date of 1999 and a
Cherry Coke can from 1989.

[@Nottsboy24]

This is super cool 🙌 it looks like a old bunker in WW2, Nottingham has loads of bunker shelters scattered around......greetings from Nottingham everyone ☺

[@Nottsboy24]

@Stem Artin it is a railway tunnel! a lot of these were also used as shelters during WW2

[@bagger7561]

Good to know.... you may need them soon 🥴

[@WinterMorris]

Hello from map top

[@jakelaniado9956]

I’m a student here rn Dyu recommend any cool spots

[@Nottsboy24]

@@jakelaniado9956 are you studying Geology or do you have an interest in abandoned tunnels? Nottingham has caves all over Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Most of Nottingham has Bunter Sandstones which dissolves away over 1000s of years carving cave systems and tunnels 👓🎓

[@michaelleek1927]

Use to play in tunnels in the 70s when we living on Annesley Grove in the city. There was an entrance off Peels St toto the sand stone caves going under North Sherwood St. We also got in to the railway tunnel through the entrance on Mansfield Road oppersite the Forest gate house , or climb down the steps cut into sandstone ,down to the old railway lines about 15 m below the road level , where the new Victoria Centre bus depot is. We were always worried the torch batteries would run out, batteries were expensive then. Good Times and memories.

[@philkennedy342]

That definitely the railway tunnel before they built the new carpark at vic centre you could see the entrance if I remember correctly see a bricked up entrance in the lower level of the old car park too

[@caimremane6459]

Wow, this is great footage. Nottingham will always be in my heart, for different reasons. Much love from Lisbon

[@coolissimo69]

Great footage, very short one thou. I like these type of mysteries especially in Nottingham.

[@Watchlivewithdarryl]

I literally live opposite this tunnel…or where this tunnel used to be. I see the site every day from my living room window. I so wish trains still ran. How amazing to get a train right into the city centre (even if it is just a 15mins walk!)

[@stevenleeengland-henson2656]

I am from Nottingham not going to lie never new this was here and now I want to go 😅

[@deborahtheredbrickchick468]

I’m really really enjoying your work Amazing stuff 🙌❤️🙌

[@locationunknownUK]

Thank you 😊

[@Taytates-lr6kg]

Great video..I've never heard of that tunnel.looks great..we used to play in the tunnels in sneinton as kids.there's loads of tunnels around Nottingham.I'd love to go have a look around that Sherwood rise one..

[@pippy4658]

Where exactly is this? I live in Radford, not far from Sherwood rise.

[@garyrothwell1914]

Victoria centre to the roundabout at Gregory boulevard.

[@philkennedy342]

I think that it’s the railway tunnel that runs up the side of Mansfield road from Victoria centre car parks

[@d0g0k]

Same. We went in ten years back from the victoria Center car park end

[@philkennedy342]

@@d0g0k we went in well before the new car park was built in fact it’s that long ago the old bus station was inside victoria centre if you walk up Mansfield road there’s old entry points in the walls with locked gates full of rubbish now must be years since.. Showing my age now 😂😂😂

[@samblessed7777]

Hi there great videos any chance you tell me where this is 🙏 please

[@jakeaimshigh3241]

I've been down there the tunnel starts at the multi story carpark at the back of Victoria centre

[@railfreightdrivergallagherGBRf]

No, thats Mansfield Road Tunnel one end of Victoria, or Weekday Cross Tunnel the other. Sherwood Rise Tunnel is Carrington.

[@leeludlowart237]

What are these tunnels for ? I’m from sutton and I didn’t know about them.

[@kenstevens5065]

Amazing a former main line from London, including dumped rubbish and the coke can. I'm sure that if we ever do get humans on Mars they'll find similar items. On a serious note Nottingham City Council should be ashamed how they allowed a once huge railway infrastructure around the City to be destroyed in the past. The City could have led the UK in rail commuter transport in the 21st Century if it had mothballed closed lines to be redeveloped later. Yes lines were closed in the 1960's as uneconomic, we were in love with the car then but not now! The current tram may be trendy but covers only a fraction of area of former railway lines. Politics including local politics is very important.

[@wertrocks123]

It sucks when housing estates are placed on old trackbed in the sticks but when it's in the city centre it's almost inevitable that such prime land will get reused and redeveloped. Not to mention the land would belong to Network Rail, so it's up to them what happens to it really.

[@kenstevens5065]

@@wertrocks123 I agree. The British Railways Board before privatisation were instructed by Government to dispose of as much land as quickly as possible after line closures. It's amazing that the Heritage railway groups have done so well. BRB charged very high fees to these groups to delay track lifting and trackbed development as the groups raised money prior to purchase. They also banned preserved steam on the national network as well.

[@brodauk]

Hello. Wow. Good to know IT 💥🤪🤙

[@ABMultimediaDesigner]

As someone that goes into Nottingham, never seen any of these

[@Dr_OogaBooga]

Yo I've been in there 🤣🤣 Us notts lads have loads of secrets

[@mattquinn1147]

Any chance of getting the location I live in Nottingham and have been looking for this for a while much more interesting than mapperley tunnel which has been used as a dump for years. PS never mind I've found it lol

[@harrisonellis6124]

hey you leave Mapperley Tunnel out of this, had a lot of fun growing up playing in there

[@mattquinn1147]

@@harrisonellis6124 i actually like the place it was one of my hangouts when I was younger but people don't seem to have the respect for things nowadays I like architecture and industry not just somewhere to smoke weed and dump there crap

[@samblessed7777]

Hi what street is this on ??

[@mattquinn1147]

@@samblessed7777 corner of clumber avenue and Clarendon Park let me know if you want someone to go with

[@neli5p]

@@mattquinn1147 and me 😃

[@d0g0k]

Went through here bout 10 years ago. But that ladder was a lot more sketchy then. Also looks like there been some rubbish cleared out

[@allanbrown8655]

Deep cave's under vic centre

[@alanbuxey]

Shame all that got shut down, imagine simple electric tram system to shuttle people to/from city (Victoria centre), much traffic reduction.

[@chad0x]

ace

[@johndillinger8227]

HMG ❤️

[@davidmarchant9386]

🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

[@weshardin6609]

I hope the vagrants are watching this, it would be lovely if they would all disappear down this hole.