CORSHAM DECLASSIFIED 2005 Camera 1 Tape 2 Part 1

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Footage from Underground Corsham. May contain Spring Quarry, Burlington, CDCN, Copenacre, Tunnel Quarry, GOSCC and other places. This is Crown Copyright reproduced here for educational and historical purposes only.Check out the other 18 tapes in this series... on this channel

0:00 - Tunnel Quarry - ammunition depot underground train platform
0:57 - Tunnel Quarry - train line to Box Tunnel sidings
2:20 - Tunnel Quarry - right tunnel to sidings, left tunnel to underground loco workshop
3:55 - Tunnel Quarry - gate to underground loco workshop
4:12 - Tunnel Quarry - underground loco workshop (notice the turning plate on the floor to spin the engine around)
4:58 - Tunnel Quarry - across from one of the platforms over track is a door into this elecricity generator room which would have provide backup power for the ammo depot
7:48 - Tunnel Quarry - entrance to district 4 ammo depot
8:30 - Tunnel Quarry - district 4 ammo depot
15:04 - Tunnel Quarry - north end of district 4, this is Hudswell Drift which runs along the North of the storage districts and is served by a carts pulled by a winch at one end, you can see the narrow guage rails on the floor (the main drift in the south is conveyor belts), the tunnel leads to the Hudswell Lifts which are now capped on the surface on the corner of the park at Peel Circus.
17:14 - Tunnel Quarry - Hudswell Drift, the winch at the end of the tunnel
18:06 - Tunnel Quarry - Hudswell Drift, looking the other direction towards the lifts
18:23 - Tunnel Quarry - district 6 ammo depot, presumably from the North/Hudswell
19:39 - Hudswell Quarry - basically part of Tunnel but was once an independent quarry, the lift shafts can be seen at the far end, as well as the carts which were pulled along Hudswell Drift
22:53 - Hudswell/Tunnel Quarry - an old diesel engine shunter of some kind, I guess they pulled the carts around with this
23:10 - Tunnel Quarry - the Eastern end of the main drift
23:50 - Hudswell Quarry old workings

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