Login RegisterFAQ
Metropolitan Tunnel
 Post a reply
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
Metropolitan Tunnel is an old rail tunnel located in on the north end of the Illawarra Region NSW.
It is a 624 metre long tunnel.

This tunnel has been closed for about 100 years.

I was curious if anyone here has explored this tunnel, if so did you go all the way to the end?

Cheers,
Phil
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
Its been a while since ive been down there with a day to explore....
but from memory that tunnel is a flooder..

Dont think you can get through it readily at the moment

Might be a bit cold to take a dip in the water there at the moment too..
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
It is accessible, it's extremely wet and muddy though, so have fun ;)
Last edited by phytrix on 07 Jul 2015, 8:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"...we create alternative pathways, little fragments of possibility."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phytrix/
User avatar
By
1 Reply with quote Permalink
Old Metropolitan Tunnel is publicly accessible, with information signs about the history nearby. The glow-worms are cool, so is the unearthed partial platform. The tunnel is blocked at the southern end, you cannot go all the way through it (you must exit the same way you go in). In any case, you'd be up to your balls in mud if you tried as the southern half is almost always flooded (the tunnel was once used as a water reservoir, that's why one end is blocked).
Be prepare to run into other people there, it's very popular.

There are other abandoned tunnels nearby, however, access is iffy.
Blakjak of the Sydney branch of the Cave Clan.
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
I might have to re-visit...
been working out... last time down around any of those tunnels was sometime about 2002/3..
Been a little too long..
User avatar
By
1 Reply with quote Permalink
Just wait till the water recedes you should be able to walk a good half of the tunnel before you get your shoes wet unless it has been raining abit
you need about a weeks gap to visit this place and by a week i mean a week of it being screeching hot to dry the old girl up, excellent explore try not to slip going in ive had my close calls Good luck!
"No Urbex... No fun"
Syd Based
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
Its an alright abandoned tunnel tbh but as MacDaddy said when it rains it floods pretty quickly. As it happened to me few months back. My mate slipped on his ass and got mud everywhere. I wold give it around 1 to 3 weeks tops of just sunny days for it to be able to walk in..
Drugs are good

So is tunnels..
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
Sheesh, talk about a long wait.
Subscribe to my journal to see random exploration photos.
Where are the cat emoticons?
User avatar
By
0 Reply with quote Permalink
aren't you sydney trains vlogs
 Post a reply
Go