Draycott

After saying farewell to the brummies we headed to derbyshire to take a look at one of Dweebs recommendations. Draycott mine. As far as i am aware this was originally a train tunnel which had to be closed due to a cave in near the north entrance. A mining firm saw this as an opportunity and purchased the tunnel from the rail network. They then proceeded to sink audits and new faces off the side of the train tunnel and thus a new mine was formed.

Entry is totally comical and sketchy as hell but we soon found ourselves at the first audit. Down we went. Flooded, to the roof. Err. Since none of us had seen or heard of this place we wasn't too sure if this was the norm or we had made a mistake or.....A long list of questions arose.

We headed back up and further into the train tunnel. Another audit came into view, so in we went. This one was a bit better it still contained tracks, intact walls as well as a fully loaded coal truck perched perilously on a steep hill, ready to fall into the waters below at any moment.

We took a surprising amount of time photographing this junction alone and after a quick look at a watch realized almost 2 hours had gone past. Since we had to be in Middlesbrough in a few hours we high tailed it back to the car.

A further exploration has been set for a later date