tarboat's photos with the keyword: culvert

These days I seem to be spending more and more time underground. There is a special feeling to the architecture of culverts and tunnels and the shapes are often wonderful to behold. This is the Norbury Brook as it passes underneath the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway at Middlewood - all nicely finished in gritstone. Plenty of ochre around, but then this is right in the coal measures.

This culvert carries a stream under the spoil tip of Little Cannel Pit, Aspull. The nineteenth century brickwork is beginning to fail and the pressure of the waste above has distorted the profile in some lengths. What will happen when it inevitably collapses?

I happened upon this fine stone lined tunnel whilst investigating something completely different. Only having time for a quick peek, this will have to wait for another day. There was a small flow of water on the floor as the passage headed quite steeply uphill. I wonder where it goes?