Site Records

Site Name: Monkton Farleigh Ammunition Depot - Farleigh Down Tunnel

Batheaston
Wiltshire
OS Grid Ref: ST799674

Sub Brit site October 1985, March 1988 & February 2005

[Source: Nick Catford]

ALL PICTURES ARE TAKEN IN FEBRUARY 2005 UNLESS STATED

Loading platform
& transit shed (1988)

Looking out from the
transit shed (1988)

Narrow gauge rail
crossovers in the
transit shed

slope shaft at the back
of the transit shed

Pillbox west of
the transit shed

Mechanism for the
tram creeper-retarder

Looking down the
slope shaft

Looking into the
sorting yards from the
bottom of slope shaft

Doors into the
sorting yard

The offices at one end
of the sorting yard

The sorting yard
in 1985

The sorting yard
in 2005

Gravity rollers at the
bottom of the tunnel

For more pictures of the Farleigh Down Tunnel click here

[Source: Nick Catford

Last updated: 04 01 2011

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