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Yep I realised that on a second look. When i was kid in the (cough) 60/70's, i was able to hear them blasting down the pit at night, so i guess that area is riddled with old mining tunnels. just wondering if that'll complicate matters

 

its not called high speed for nowt..............200mph straight fu@kin past us or should I say through us,,,it will be of no benefit to us whatsoever...Looking at the plans around here (shafton),its going to obliterate all the regenerated countryside,ie,rabbit ings,wintersett res'. etc..

 

Cos management types like meetings so they can touch base with some blue cloud thinking while drinking the kook aid to progress betters comms to the monkeys.

 

Wow, that's due to go through Wombwell woods, Dovecliffe, Law Stand, Kirk Balk school, Hoyland common/Clough's. Which bits are underground? I use the London train a lot, but I'm not too bothered about saving 1 hour at the cost of so much environmental damage if that is to be the case. Employment is a factor though, I don't live in the area so it's not really for me to judge on that issue.

 

Comes really near where I live in Worsbrough.

Bastar.ds.

 

On that one section alone ( around the tunnel bit ) to my knowledge there was Skiers Spring(my Grandad and Uncle - dads side worked there), Rockingham (my dad worked at those 2), Barrow (me ), I believe there was a mine at Dove Cliff years ago (?), Wombwell Main (my Grandad -mums side).

Any subsidence should now have finished as they are all shut (cheers Maggie ), but I don't know if it will affect a tunnel?

A lot of the workings may have initially been quite close to the surface but contrary to rumours I'm not old enough to remember any of them opening

 

That has to be an issue, looking at that map the line runs very close to the old Barrow colliery.

 

Its all a tunnel from Stead Lane (common) to Shortwood where the new by-pass runs - comes out next to that big warehouse/empty for the last 4 years building near the Metalliform.

 

In 20 years we'll all be on hovver boards.

 

the pit down in the bottom of dove cliff was Swaithe Maine,dozens killed there in an explosion.

where the brickworks are on wombwell lane near gosneys there was the new oaks pit,so their workings will most definately have been under ardsley..But rest assured these old workings wont stop a new tunnel being driven,we used to tunnel through old workings down the pit anyway,these tunnels were called scours.

the area where they are going to the west of shafton and through to walton had pit workings very close to the surface,chances are if they have to do any cuttings for the new line they'll be into some of these old workings.

 

In the key at the bottom it says Historical Battlefields but there's no shading of that colour on Jump fields ???


(Hoyland v Jump every summer)

 

Doing these here tunnels they might hit on a good seam of coal.....get them pits back open

 

In another 20 years it will be an obsolete white elephant, we'll have virtual bodies or be using teleporters.

 

This will run straight through the middle & top estates in Ardsley.

Seems crazy to me.

 

those houses that will be over the tunnel will almost certainly hear the trains running,especially if they are doing the speeds they are on about.

 

Fifteen years since self assessment was introduced. I completed tax returns on paper. They were photocopied and the originals were taken to the tax office and a date stamped receipt was obtained. If anyone then had told me that within ten years of that time I'd be preparing the returns on my computer and then filing them on-line and receiving an immediate confirmation of receipt I'm not sure I'd have believed them.

I am sceptical as to whether expensive business travel will be the norm in even ten years time never mind twenty. As technology has changed my way of working, the advent of video conferencing and virtual meetings could make the whole project a redundant white elephant.

It could be a Concorde for the 21st century.

 

So it's going to do for the woods on either side then?

 

Will be when the ticket prices are known !

 

Only 20 - 30 metres below ground at that end so I'd deffo agree with that.

Where goes under Hawshaw Lane (near the old Booths factory) its 50m but thats still not that deep

 

they'll know about it when they are laid in bed