Originally Posted by
ThePenkethPedant
I went on a tour of the tunnel with a group from the Friends of Williamson Tunnels last year. Jolly good, we had to take torches and I don`t think it was quite as wet at that time - there were planks and stuff strategically placed to enable one to cross the wetter,muddier stretches. At the end, where the tunnel is bricked up, with just an arch of mesh at the top, we had a sort of ladder arrangement organised and were able to clamber up and look out through the mesh onto the outside world. Then came the trek back.... There are still some bits of the old signalling etc in the tunnel, but difficult to pick out. The end where the station,platforms etc were is interesting. Also the tiling of the tunnel roof shows signs of the disastrous fire which occurred on one occasion. I think there were fatalities, but can`t recall the details.