Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by Papa Bear_Left » 19 July 10 1:22 pm

aussie-O's wrote:Any in WA?
Yes, a couple, but the fact that GZ is in a tunnel is the point of both of them, so please don't put them on the list!
Yurt wrote:Were there ever any hills big enough to have to bore tunnels through in WA?
Only one! Yep, there's only ever been one railway tunnel near Perth, and that hasn't been in use since 1966.

(Perth's so flat that I had to ask C@W to modify his "Mountain High" requirements since we didn't have any qualifying caches...)

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by Geodes » 19 July 10 2:02 pm

There's this one in Vic, although it's currently disabled - "Over an Under"

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by belken » 19 July 10 8:16 pm

We will be publishing one(GCA) tomorrow for Townsville Qld.

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by The Spindoctors » 26 July 10 7:53 am

Zalgariath wrote:"Daylight" is a classic tunnel cache from 2003. But its in the National Park :( OH NO!!!! and it looks like the tunnel has been shut :( :( :( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... e2566cee77
If you use the National Parks boundary data from the Geocaching NSW website, the tunnel is just outside the border.

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by caughtatwork » 26 July 10 9:55 am

Spindoc Bob wrote:
Zalgariath wrote:"Daylight" is a classic tunnel cache from 2003. But its in the National Park :( OH NO!!!! and it looks like the tunnel has been shut :( :( :( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... e2566cee77
If you use the National Parks boundary data from the Geocaching NSW website, the tunnel is just outside the border.
No warning produced http://geocaching.com.au/cache/GCGVNB which implies it's not in a banned geocaching zone.
http://geocaching.com.au/zone/gmap/100/ is the Blue Mountains banned zone.
It's outside the NP zone from the data GCA has.
(Warning, a few minutes to load the zone data as it's very, very large and detailed).

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by The Spindoctors » 26 July 10 10:36 am

Would be interesting to see if they've blocked the other entrance, which is more concealed.

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by Freddo » 26 July 10 9:23 pm

Sleeps Hill Trio should be on this list. At least one cacher used the tunnel to get from one waypoint to another.

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by Yurt » 14 October 10 2:22 pm

I see the "needs archived" log on Daylight hasn't been actioned yet. Would love to check it out and see what's happening. No one has logged any attempts since then.

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by Hoojar » 14 October 10 4:01 pm

Off of the top of my head I can think of three Railway Tunnel caches that I have found that are not on your list.

http://coord.info/GCKWZM - Creepy Crawley
http://coord.info/GCNXE3 - Mushrooms on Ghost
http://coord.info/GC1AR5A - Spray Tunnel

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by Wingaap » 14 October 10 4:08 pm

Bats Catch Trains? GC2E761

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by macandrita » 14 October 10 6:57 pm

Another to add to the collection is GC1EBN2 Tunnel of Bygone Dreams which is an easy walkin along the old rail line on a tourist steam train track that operates very infrequently due to track and locomotive issues. Shame really as we have done this ride when it was working and it was a thrill. Great feat of engineering.

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by riblit » 19 October 10 1:53 pm

Zalgariath wrote:"Daylight" is a classic tunnel cache from 2003. But its in the National Park :( OH NO!!!! and it looks like the tunnel has been shut :( :( :( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... e2566cee77
That tunnel has two openings, did you check both?

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by The Spindoctors » 19 October 10 2:10 pm

I was planning on checking the other entrance (S 33 43.796, E 150 17.118) later in the year (early-mid December). Happy to go in for a third time if anybody needs a guide once inside.

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Re: Railway tunnel (or other tunnel) caches

Post by tronador » 21 October 10 9:44 pm

Spindoc Bob wrote:Happy to go in for a third time if anybody needs a guide once inside.
Ditto :D

Yurt- Skydogs- Creepy Cawley is one of the best caches around.


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