The Old Disused Railway Tunnel of Stalybridge - Lost in the Hillside of Greater Manchester

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The Old Disused Railway Tunnel of Stalybridge - Lost in the Hillside of Greater Manchester
In this video we rediscover an old Railway Tunnel right in the heart of Stalybridge, Greater Manchester. 315 Yards in length, Stalybridge New Tunnel was closed to traffic in the 1970s as final workings went to and from the nearby Power Station which closed in 1980. The " New " in the name represents the fact it was the second tunnel built in Stalybridge, so the newer of the two.
Once burtsting out over the vally onto the Tame Viaduct, now demolished, this tunnel sits atop a hillside with little chance of any future use.
Today we take a look around and get inside, Stalybridge New Tunnel.
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[@sc3pt1c4L]

"I've not done a tunnel for a while"...me neither mate!

[@TrekkingExploration]

😂😂😂😂

[@gs425]

You and me both 🫥

[@andrewnorth170]

I'm still amazed at all these places of a bygone era. How amazing it must have been just to see a train travelling out of that tunnel.

[@user-yd9bj3bs8g]

Used to live in this area 1971-1976. A real wealth of industrial and transport history.

[@bobingram6912]

Thank goodness for trees on slippery banks🤕😀 Excellent little tunnel with no crap or grafitti in it, makes a change. Great seeing these architectural marvels but I always feel sad when you show pics of how it used to be, the haunting soundtrack doesn't help!!!!!!!! Cheers Ant👍👍

[@garywatkins6230]

I played in this tunnel as a small child. Thanks for making this video.

[@ianhudson2193]

Fascinating!!!!!! I'd imagine the debries hump in the tunnel is the top fill graded off the viaduct before the structure was demolished....

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for that Ian that's a great explanation 🙂🙂

[@Carolb66]

Hi Ant I font know how I missed this gem it's on one of my favourite disused railways the Mickelhurst loop. Been to Staley Bridge many times in the past its a lovely traditional Manchester town. Fab tunnel this although a bit hairaising getting into it! Lovely pictures of it with your camera too. ❤😊👍

[@whyyoulidl]

Thx Ant for taking us along on this one; appreciated as always 😄

[@carlbentley80]

Beautiful

[@davidclark3603]

I used to walk through there as a kid!!

[@trainmanbob]

Very interesting. Thanks Ant. Cheers, Bob

[@Kate1Chopin]

Fascinating! Thanks for posting.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Anne

[@geoffreynelson2353]

This is great hope to do this in 2023.

[@janetdods71]

What another lovely find I never knew much about the railways past but you are brilliant at bringing the past back to life with all your walks ☺☺

[@janepatricia8779]

Yes I was watching Ant,😃and I also heard the bump as you came down the muddy bank,hope you didn't hurt your back,🤔 as always a very interesting video,take care xx

[@johnbrice2842]

another really great video.the brickwork is out of this world,no steal just pure skillin brick bork.great and thanks

[@martinmarsola6477]

Thanks for the trip back in time. Always enjoy your videos! Happy holidays and New Years! Cheers Ant! 🇬🇧🙂👍🇺🇸

[@shirleylynch7529]

Brilliant tunnel. Great explore. Footage amazing as always. Thank you Ant. Love the nostalgic music as well. Very atmospheric.

[@2010ditta]

Amazing to see all the different colours and patterns on the tunnel sides and roof. Very enjoyable. All the best to you and yours.

[@denniseichert2323]

Thanks Ant for more evocative, thought provoking material - Engineering structures now long forgotten and lost in time forever...from the Antipodes Ant, have a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe new year!

[@richarddoran3877]

Another great video. Just in this short section alone, all the construction involved with the tunnel and the now gone viaduct was immense. Now forgotten by most, your videos help keep history alive.

[@jontownsend8090]

Superb content as always, have a great Christmas and an even better 2023 exploring more relics of a bygone era.

[@mcmarky1985]

Thanks for this one Ant. Love to see these tunnels and it's great you can get in that one I know more often than not they are just sealed off or filled in completely!. Nothing like that here really in Norfolk (apart from Cromer). You and the family have a great Christmas and New Year look looking forward to the content next year!

[@razworthers_3601]

Tramps tunnel we called it, back in high school this would be a place i would cut through lol. Above the entrance where the 10 foot wall is there once was a church, the grave yard is still there even tho moved to create the church steps. Also on the dirt path you where on at the start if u walk down the path about 20 meters and look up theres a little hut like building, nothing big and not sure what is was used for. Great vid

[@a11csc]

great collab ant,merry xmas and happy newyear to you and yours.looking forward to more great stuff in 2023

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Fantastic video thanks Ant. Loved the different colours interspersed in the brickwork. Merry Christmas. Please take care

[@Tuberuser187]

Nice explore, I get to see places I couldn't otherwise.

[@philliphammond399]

Hi Ant, great exploration. Have a good Christmas and amazing ventures next year. 😊

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

A great video, Ant. Never heard of this tunnel before, but it seems that it's weathered the time fairly well, and actually I didn't realise that it wasn't too far out from Stalybridge station. Many thanks for the showing of the photographs too, and I hope that you have a successful 2023.

[@terezaegan1379]

Great video Ant,thankyou. Merry Christmas to you all at Trekking Exploration

[@aafridi1]

Beautiful Video 😍

[@Ozbert]

Thanks Ant, another nice bit of recording. I liked the still image (3:36) showing the back of a fibre-glass covered SPT (Signal Post Telephone). Beneath the cover was a weighty Fibre-glass telephone made by STC, with a clockwork driven, coded twist-dial telephone for the driver (stopped at the signal) to call in to the Signal Box. We used to fault & maintain these and the S Box equipment, on the West Coast Main Line in the 1970's and 80's.

[@cedarcam]

We had an even older one made out of wood. It housed the same mechanism All the other phones we had were the fibre glass ones.

[@Ozbert]

@@cedarcam Wow, was that a prototype? Where was that one ?

[@cedarcam]

@@Ozbert I have no idea. I wish I could of kept it as I only ever saw this one. It was on the Calder Valley line at a place called Greetland on G27/E49 signal which was Elland 49 slotted distant going towards Healy Mills. The distants DR shelf type relay could pick without Greetlands HR, also a shelf type, up which was a good call out when a train passed and Elland did not put the lever normal before a train passed clear of all the tracks. That prevented G27 from clearing again. With new signallers we got called out a few times and the fault could easily be fixed by simply retuning both boxes levers to Normal in order 27 then 49 as if a train was passing then pulling them again in order 27 then 49, that was the only place I ever knew with a sequential slot between boxes. Now it is all controlled by York ROC.

[@jetsons101]

Falling down on a muddy hill while trying to hold a camera is part of the fun. Great old photos, you must have a very good source. Ant, I have heard stories that sink holes have formed under people's homes or under their garage or part of a road drops in because of a long abounded tunnels or culverts giving away. Thanks to you and your team for another great watch.

[@clairedouglas5450]

Thank you. The nature at the end of the tunnel especially the grass growing into it is very pretty. I hope there is not a dead body in the filled in recess.

[@helenawanders]

Great video! Was excellent privilege to do it with you and tick it off my list

[@exileinderby51]

Good to see you doing another tunnel, all the best to you and your other half for Christmas.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Have a great one 🙂

[@benGBRf]

Great informative video Ant. Hope you and your loved ones are having a fantastic Christmas and I wish you a happy new year as well.

[@andrewmatley7688]

i was there today mate done it many times thanks for your video .

[@robertbush6652]

Up to your usual standard really good nice effort. Merry Christmas Ant

[@longbar2344]

severn tunnel was interesting to walk in

[@elizabeththorp5761]

Never knew this existed. I have shared this. Plenty of People will be interested. Thanks for making the Video.. Xxx

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thank you very much for watching Elizabeth ❤️❤️

[@simonrichardson5077]

Nice one Ant,thanks lad

[@johncochrane2707]

Great video as always. Happy Christmas Ant.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much John

[@michaelsilcock7933]

New subscriber,your chanel is awesome 👌 merry Xmas

[@heathermorley6074]

Interesting as always

[@andrewnewby6923]

Have a happy Christmas and New year

[@wideyxyz2271]

if i had known you were coming here Id have invited you in for a brew! I live up near the Tunnel vent!

[@michaelmiller641]

All this infrastructure going to waste! Thanks Ant, for that video, Happy Christmas

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Michael 🙂🙂

[@None-zc5vg]

That tunnel was built as part of a scheme to put two or more extra tracks in place between Stockport, Denton, Stalybridge, Marsden, Huddersfield, Heckmondwike and Leeds. The work went on through the 1880s and 1890s and included the second Stockport Viaduct (finished in 1889). They started closing and demolishing everything in the '60s and most of the viaducts and bridges have gone. There used to be a long viaduct in Dukinfield (near Asda) but it was knocked down in the '70s and replaced by trees and industrial units.

[@tinytonymaloney7832]

Its criminal how the old victorian engineering has been abandoned and left to rot. I wonder how different our country would be if all thw railway system was left intact.

[@None-zc5vg]

This country is effectively run by criminals through their political stooges: it's done in such a po-faced way with lashings of ceremony and rhetoric to make the victims think they're being given an even break while they're being robbed blind.

[@garybooth7121]

Great Video Ant. I don’t live too far away from the butterhouse tunnel so this route is very interesting to me. The micklehurst loop was put in as it seen as a cheaper option when quadrupling the existing LNW transpennine route over the uppermill viaduct. As a rail employee who has worked on various operational and redundant tunnels. I’m guessing the changes in height within the structure, are either where the capped off shafts have been collapsed in and spread out for subsequent thermal imaging surveys off MEWPS. Or material from the removed viaduct on the Eastern side, where it has has been pulled back into it to the tunnel to reduce mucking away costs during the demolition.

[@bryanswift1010]

Great video. Iv been in this tunnel loads of time as I'm from near Stalybridge. Was there still a children's bike in there that looks like it been there years?

[@dazzab111]

Good old StalyVegas

[@iansidebottom6166]

Me And My mates used to wait for the trains taking coal to power station and and pick up what dropped off and we would sometimes jump on them and throw it off to pickup later ..if they didn't have guards on them we would jump on back of them and get a lift through the tunnel are even walk through them little shits we were many a time we got a good hiding from parents if found out LOL but appreciated the coal though

[@davebaz8142]

I’ve climbed the wall into the tunnel when I was a naughty teenager in the 90’s. It stunk of piss and was full of needles back then and it gave me the creeps to be honest

[@Jimyjames73]

Shame what happen to all these old Railway & Tunnels - I wonder why they built a wall 1 end but yet you could get in the other end??? Thanks for sharing 😐🚂🚂🚂

[@rodneymcgovern5984]

The wall is, presumably, to deter people from entering the tunnel from fairly flat ground, whereas the northern end is high up in the valley and therefore less accessible.

[@emmamcgorrin2478]

That's called tramps tunnel I'm from Stalybridge and when I was 6 I went with my older brother and our friend through the tunnel it was said back then that glue sniffers and homeless used to live in there going through as a kid was scary lol

[@wideyxyz2271]

It was a crime them knocking down the single arch part of the viaduct it was solid and could have been used instead of that poxy new footbridge! Disgusting waste of money!

[@tonyclough9844]

Correct could have been made into a bus way or bike way.

[@trainsinkansas576]

It's a shame in a way , they built all these railroad lines and tunnels and abandoned them. They have done it in America to. All that work. Meriden, Kansas 🎄🎄

[@tonyclough9844]

But it provides employment something missing now.

[@TheShowgirl25]

Strange they only bricked up one end. Maybe the undergrowth was too fearsome or they ran out of bricks!

[@Deepakverma-yb5ro]

When are they going to reopen this tunnel for trains again. It needs to be reopened and repaired.

[@bill-2018]

I think this is Cocker Hill and the churchyard of St. George's Church long since demolished further along above this tunnel had coffins falling into the river at one time.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Oh My goodness that must have been a sight

[@bill-2018]

​@@TrekkingExploration I knew about it but had to look it up, 1877 with an 'alarming landslip'. It is said coffins fell into the river but this article says they were exposed.

[@janettetaylor8760]

Don't know why they do t turn these tunnels into cycling lanes and walk way for people

[@macbutty1]

Cocker hill tunnel

[@pharllslim4544]

Aka Stalyvegas

[@GMT439]

Waterway.

[@TrekkingExploration]

🤣

[@GMT439]

@@TrekkingExploration Just like the Tube in London used to be before it was a railway.

[@GMT439]

@@TrekkingExploration Why do you think they have all those waterproof bathroom style tiling on the underground / tube? PS: You are hiding my comments.

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@GMT439 hiding nothing. I'm too busy for petty stuff

[@GMT439]

@@TrekkingExploration What...Like the truth?

[@edscoble]

Can you make your content inclusive by formatting the auto captioning into closed captioning please? it is extremely hard to watch it relying only on the auto captioning sadly (I'm Profoundly Deaf)

[@matty2855]

This is actually now none as tramps tunnel we used to go in as kids and think we was going to be pulled into one of the openings while inside

[@DesigntowinLew]

Good that you got into the tunnel Ant to complete the route , fascinating to see . Thank you for all the content this year have a great Christmas .

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Lewis. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂