The Railway Tunnel that became a Car Graveyard

[@neildaniel8232]

The cars: The first rusty wreck is a MkIII Escort, was red at one point. MkII Cavalier. 2X MkII Fiestas. 1 Metro. The car in two pieces is a MkII Astra. Been going through that tunnel since the late 80's so have seen them when they were in much more complete condition! Those are the definite cars, the last one arrived in 1994. There was a Nova down there too but it has disappeared, it was torched and smashed up and I think it was recovered.

[@TheWacoKid1963]

Rear overhang looks too long for an Escort, could be a mk1 Orion

[@myleswillis]

Great video. I went about 10 years ago and at least one of those pepper pot gratings had fallen down into the tunnel and was lying on the track bed. Maybe someone had it away for their garden.

[@johncochrane2707]

You're on a roll at the moment Ant, so many great videos.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching John

[@hbhmhbhm]

Great video, It's amazing the Cavalier wasn't burned out it still has the headlining and most of the paint!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much for watching ☺️

[@Geoffrey-t4r]

Brilliant video it's great to see inside these old railway tunnels it's so enjoyable to watch

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it Geoffey thanks so much :)

[@lostinhistory_uk]

Great Video as usual matey....I wandered where my cars got taken to. Kidding. Great video

[@RCassinello]

4:20 - That trackwork genuinely looks like the kind of thing if I saw on a model railway I would scoff and say was shoddy! :)

[@TrekkingExploration]

Yes it does 🤣 Thanks for watching

[@Moodster020]

Here's a tip for a future exploration for you: Broomielaw station up near Barnard Castle. Visited that in 2008 (on my channel videos), and at that time, there was a signal box and canopied station still there left from 1964. Don't know how intact it still is these days though.

[@jontaylor1652]

Wonderful stuff as always, thanks Ant. The only guess at the cars I'm going to make is for the second one (white one), possibly a Mkll Vauxhall Cavalier?

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching. Cavalier seems a popular choice

[@Nockalates]

Or a Vauxhall Chevette?

[@davedear929]

It must have been terrifying standing in one of those refuges when a train went past not forgetting the noise.. thank you .

[@TrekkingExploration]

Especially in single track tunnels. Thanks for watching 🙂

[@Gavlaagreens123]

Love these videos .....only just discovered your channel ,so been binge watching a fair few 👍👍

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks I'm pleased you are enjoying them ☺️

[@maestromanification]

Great video Ant, the way the tunnel is immediately after the junction makes the tunnel look like a bad model railway 😂 Cars, 1st mk3 escort, 2nd mk2 cavalier, third looks like mk 2 astra and so does red front end wonder if its same car? 4th is possibly a mk3 fiesta . 5th I'm a vit stumped maybe a nova. Wonder if it was same scumbag who stole them all. Cheers Russ

[@matthewwren1177]

Good film, the cars we've probably stolen and dumped out of site. You could visit 'Old Warden' tunnel it used to be used by youngsters for parties in the 80s and 90s. The only porthole that you can use has two rusty abandoned cars in front of it they must have been dumped their over 30 years ago as they are very rusty and a large chunk of the cars have rusted away.

[@billyruss]

Some amazing photography, and some great old black and white photos which really set the tunnel in perspective. I walked this back in the early 80s, and not a lot has changed except for the car graveyard! How did they all get there, I wonder.

[@tomasdobbins3196]

As a Merthyr local I’ve walked through this many of times, you got lucky with the water sometimes there is a lot of it, my favourite tunnel local to me that I’ve only managed to walk through once was the Merthyr to Aberdare tunnel which was engineered by Brunel

[@halfwaytoparadise]

..... an excellent video .... I`m going to retrace your steps next month - and look out for the sunken drainage channel - it looks like a real " leg breaker " ..... thankyou .

[@johnsmart964]

Thank you very much for this very impressive video presentation which is very much appreciated. The colours within the tunnel makes it look like a grand work of art, which in a very real sense it is. On the whole the tunnel is in remarkably good condition bearing in mind how long ago it was closed and therefore, how long ago it last received any maintenance. Bearing in mind how many cars have been burnt out it is amazing that there is no effect on the walls of the tunnel. The tunnel must be quite high bearing in mind the support bracing that it has within it and the fact that a normal height train must have been able to pass through it. Thank you so much for taking us on this subterranean journey which we are absolutely delighted with.

[@152clive]

i really enjoyed part one and part two .you done well ant, looking forward to the next one .

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much Clive. One more from down here to come

[@christinegibbins6105]

Amazing, but sad. Many thanks Ant. Take care.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks as always Christine 😊

[@alankennedy3398]

Another enjoyable video .. well done and keep em comming !!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Very kind Alan thank you ☺️

[@shirleylynch7529]

What a great tunnel. Shame about all the cars dumped there. Well done and loved the bricks. Thank you Ant. Brill video.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it Shirley thanks as always

[@chaddamp2894]

As always many thanks for your posts x

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much for watching ☺️

[@nickboden5866]

Yet again another superb Video, the car which was a saloon looked rather like a Vauxhall Cavalier. But it’s a guess…..incredible amount of colour and textures on the tunnel walls.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much. The cavalier appears to be a popular choice 😊

[@NikEastwood161]

the red front end is MK3 Escort

[@TrekkingExploration]

I love this. Thanks very much 😊

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Great shots of tunnel which looks in very good condiotion. Shame it's not been put to better use than a car graveyard.

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's would be no nice to see it re used. Thanks for watching

[@LKBRICKS1993]

Excellent very interesting looking forward to the next video.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Fantastic video thanks Ant. The colours are so beautiful. Shame the cars are in there. For a tunnel it seemed quite clean. Thanks for taking me along. Please take care

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you as always 😊

[@lindamccaughey6669]

@@TrekkingExploration 😋

[@michaelmiller641]

Fantastic video, Ant. Thanks for that!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much indeed ☺️

[@bobingram6912]

Great tunnel (you must force yourself to walk more of these in a year!!!) I'm more interested in who emulsioned the walls than what the rust buckets were!!!!!😂😂 Nicely done Ant👍👍👍

[@TheShowgirl25]

Some nice colours in there.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@davefarrow4351]

Excellent video as always, not sure on the first car but I think the second one is a Vauxhall cavalier mk1

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheers Dave thanks for watching

[@bobsbits8562]

Cavalier mk2 I'd say

[@davefarrow4351]

@@bobsbits8562 yeah, you’re definitely right I’d forgot about the previous model with the slopey front.

[@angelaknisely-marpole7679]

Brilliant, thanks :)

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching ☺️

[@a11csc]

great vid Ant

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching Chris

[@gwynrandall7255]

Very interesting. Morlais pronounced morelice

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@Jimyjames73]

Hello Ant - Oh @ 9:50 You've found my 2 cars then - I wondered where they went to!!! (Joking!!!) 😉😄 Get Car SOS on to them!!! 😄 The question is why would they drive a car into the Tunnel - then set a lite to them??? 🤔🚂🚂🚂

[@jamesrichards7644]

Great vid definitely a cav that 😂

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching James

[@johnaston6440]

Nice video mate

[@TrekkingExploration]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Flossy_tops]

2nd car looks like a Vauxhall

[@Peter-MH]

Mk2 Vauxhall cavalier maybe??.. (2nd car in)

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much 😊

[@annalebiedzinska9990]

If you come out of this tunnel and walk about 200 meters there is another tunnel in front of the school and you have to go down to pass the farm with horses and go down to the end of the road and then turn left there is a tunnel is a bit wet at the beginning. Let me know if you can't find it because I'm very interested in where this tunnel leads

[@TheWacoKid1963]

Perfect insurance jobs, nobodies going to think of looking down there for missing cars

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's odd to think maybe someone's car was stolen and it was never found.... One of these could be it

[@Bumphuk]

The second shell is a MK2 Cavalier.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much 😊

[@jetsons101]

Ant, first a great watch. But I have a question: I seem that a lot of abounded Railroad Stations have been made into homes but how many abounded Signal Boxes are still standing and have some been made in homes ????

[@TrekkingExploration]

That's a good question.... I'm quite interested myself now

[@jetsons101]

@@TrekkingExploration Hmmmm Maybe a future vid ?????

[@polarlicht4758]

Last car had Fiesta wheels

[@TrekkingExploration]

Ahhhh. Thanks for watching

[@BecsterDotCom]

You’re a brave man to enter that tunnel! I’d be shit scared of going in especially on my own! Love how the people of Merthyr thought “yeah let’s drive some cars into an abandoned tunnel and burn them”! 😂 Also got to love the graffiti… “minor qualms only” made me laugh. That and the very inappropriate swear word! 😂 I’m easily amused. It’s a bloody long tunnel. That shaft of light was very Mr Bean like. Hadn’t realised that the building at Pant station was a tunnel shaft! Not sure why I hadn’t made that connection. I’m an idiot 😂 Ah the people who built this were amazing!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Quite a lot of humour in this comment made me chuckle lol This tunnel is quite " ok " compared to some i have been inside. I don't do them often because they get a bit samey. There are quite a few up your way. I did one in October 21 in North Wales no graffit at all

[@BecsterDotCom]

@@TrekkingExploration glad I made you chuckle :)

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@BecsterDotCom ha ha yes you did

[@simonballard6413]

Another marvellous tunnel. It would be lovely if you could get us in to Merthyr tunnel. Any chance?

[@TrekkingExploration]

It's possible I guess? If there's access

[@stephendavies6949]

Another excellent video from the area in which I grew up. There is a ruined castle at Morlais, which was never completed, and the GWR named one of their Castle Class locos after it. PLEASE don't take this as a negative, but "Morlais" is pronunouned "More-lice". Sounds like you may be heading for Cefn Coed viaduct next? I used to fish for trout under it in the River Taff!

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much for watching. Yes time was against me for the castle sadly 😔 Yes I'm off towards the viaduct next which I definitely didn't try to pronounce 🤣

[@stephendavies6949]

@TrekkingExploration You misunderstood me: I meant that the original builders never completed it, not that do didn't finish your video, which was excellent.

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@stephendavies6949 oh I know I meant I ran out of time to get to see it 🙂

[@jetsons101]

The first car 9:56 must have been a "entry level" car as it is only four lugs with drum brakes, the same with the second car "drum brakes," Definitely not a Porsche 911 GT3 RS Side Note: would be nice if "people" would dispose of used car tires properly.

[@dilwyn1]

Great vid as always Ant. Glad you are still including those fantastic still shots too.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks for watching as always 😊

[@huwjones6541]

Nice video! Very informative and well shot. Particularly like the old photos. In the spirit of being helpful and not meant in any way as a criticism, I've just got a few notes on the pronunciation of the places you're visiting. Merthyr Tydfil - Tydfil is pronounced Tid Vil Morlais is pronounced Mor Lice Sounds like you'll be walking down to Pontsarn Viaduct in your next video. Pontsarn is literally pronounced Pont Sarn. 😊 Torpantau - Tor Pant Eye.

[@TrekkingExploration]

Thanks very much indeed. I've gone as far as Cefn Coed Viaduct I've not even tried to pronounce that 😂🙈

[@huwjones6541]

Kevin without the i so Kevn and Koid as in void. Kevn Koid. A c is always pronounced as a k in Welsh and never as an s.

[@TrekkingExploration]

@@huwjones6541 you are a star thanks so much

[@lordstiffupperlip3095]

Hello Ant , Don't you get scared down there on your own ? also have you ever seen any ghost in the tunnels , had stone chucked behind you ?

[@TrekkingExploration]

Nothings weird has happened before although every noise like dripping gets you on an extra edge

[@buffplums]

7:26 Hehe you can tell this tunnel is in Wales and built for Welsh rail workers Boyoh 😂😂 Look at the height of the refuges 😵‍💫😵‍💫😜

[@milehighclassics]

BMW 2nd

[@TrekkingExploration]

Ahhh. Thanks for watching

[@tsl56]

Morlais is pronounced /more-lice/, as in extra animal parasites. ;-)

[@AJD1979]

:)

[@TrekkingExploration]

☺️

[@milehighclassics]

Ford escort

[@TrekkingExploration]

Cheers 🥂

[@RCassinello]

5:25 - weird how the "straight on" route actually has the lower signal?

[@TheRogey1]

[@TrekkingExploration]

😊