Return to Miley Tunnel, Preston - February 2014

After our aborted visit to Preston's Miley Tunnels back in December this one has been eating away at me, don't know why as its only a tunnel.

So Urban Spaceman and myself grabbed our gear for a trip into the Preston underworld.

A nice and easy in, with a bit of a puddle at the entrance - oh must mention the rats scuttling around in the undergrowth, Urban Spaceman swears he didn't see any but I saw a couple of the hairy beasts pottering around.

 

 

Not very much to say really, a long dark tunnel (very dark) running across the centre of Preston - a hole in the ground is simply a hole in ground.

 

 

So we walked to the end and then back, stopping off for a bit of fun midway.

 

 

 

We came back out into the light with the people of Preston looking at us strangely as if they wander past the entrances and railway cuttings without ever considering whats is actually down there in this big hole in the ground.

 

Well good people of Preston I will spill the beans on the big mystery with three R's - rats, rubbish and an old railway track and its bloody wonderful for some strange reason.

Miley Tunnels, Preston - December 2013

A collection of disused railway tunnels running thru and under the city of Preston, interesting....

Looked interesting this one -  a big long dark spooky tunnel, then throw in that a branch line that used to run to Whittingham Asylum and finally for added spin the tale of a ghost the haunts the tunnels going by the name of the Grey Lady.

 

Off we went, the Deepdale end looked like a bit an assault course, so we ventured down to Maudland with its handy parking.

Tripods, wire wool, plenty of torches, we decided to have a wander thru the tunnels and on the return leg camp out for an hour and do some wool spinning.





Then with a sudden case of heavy feet and general "one of them things" we had a man down, so sadly it was back to the car with a return visit on the cards - in fact we did return in the end.