{"id":68422,"date":"2010-10-07T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68422"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:24:31","slug":"grinkle-tunnel-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68422","title":{"rendered":"Grinkle Tunnel 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2250\" height=\"1488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-68421\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5131004366812226;width:808px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1.jpg 2250w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1-454x300.jpg 454w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1-2048x1354.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Grinkle-tunnel-1962-1-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>About a mile long this tunnel (which carries the line through the ridge along which Grinkle\u00a0Lane travels) I was told; and yes we used to go and play in it when the trains were running and scare ourselves silly. Dave tells us: &#8220;Actually the tunnel is some 993 yards long.&#8221; Ann Jackson tells the Archive: &#8220;My Great Grandad James Jackson worked on the Easington a Tunnel. He worked for the Midland Railway Co. As a stone mason. He moved to Easington from the Dales where he worked on the Ribblehead Viaduct also for the same company.&#8221; Whilst Christopher Colbeck advises: &#8220;I came to live in Loftus in 1958. Along with mates from the Loftus Recreation ground on Micklow Lane, we had on several occasions walked\/stumbled through the tunnel to the far end which gave us access to Twizziegill where in previous times the had been mine workings. There were old brick buildings [I think they were stables]. What made the tunnel a bit daunting was not the length but the fact that tunnel had a curve which meant that there was no \u2018light at the end of the tunnel\u2019 to be seen until we had walked a considerable distance. At that time the rails and sleepers were all in place. There were recesses let in the sides of the tunnel which we could step into; which I presumed provided a safe space for workmen when trains were running regularly. There was two vertical air\/light shafts in the roof but years of steam trains had reduced the walls to a matt black surface which gave no reflected light and rendered a torch fairly useless.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thanks to Dave, Ann Jackson and Christopher Colbeck for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>About a mile long this tunnel (which carries the line through the ridge along which Grinkle Lane travels) I was told; and yes we used to go and play in it when the trains were running and scare ourselves silly. Dave tells us: &#8220;Actually the tunnel is some 993 yards long.&#8221; Ann Jackson tells [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boulby-easington-and-grinkle","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79544,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68422\/revisions\/79544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}