Today I found some footpaths across the top of the Bramhope tunnel and found the shafts that were dug for the diggers to be lowered into the tunnel. Some of them were left as air vents.
The tunnel starts not long out of Horsforth station.
The first air vent appears just off the Otley Old Road.
The next is between that road and Bramhope village.
I just had to touch the brick work and feel the history absorbed within the stonework.
Theres a lot of mounds along the route, which maybe some of the earth that was dug out. It can’t possibly be all of it though. I assume most was transported away somewhere???
Lastly i got closer to the sighting tower. You can see the platform at the top and theres a window which suggests that there may be a room there.
