Talk:Crystal Palace pneumatic railway

how about using magic word notoc, until this article gains in length. Emesee (talk) 22:33, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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Just to add some corrections

Hello I've just read this WIKI entry and as someone who has lived in Penge since 1988 I can confirm it isn't accurate.

The tunnel was found after a search by a Marquis (?) in the dry summer I believe of 1991/2. It was in the local newspaper the News Shopper with a small display set up in the visitors hut in the park itself. If I remember correctly the initial plans for the tunnel were lost when the Crystal Palace itself burnt down in November 1936 and the other plans lost in a flood at the British Museum. The chap who searched for the tunnel that summer would hitch a ride with the local police helicopter and take aerial shots of the park hoping to use the very dry spring and summer that year to expose the outline of the tunnel. He did find it with a display of photographs clearly showing the outline of the subterranean tunnel which was apparently about two hundred yards long and ran parallel to Crystal Palace Park road from the site where there was once a permanent fair ground at the lower south eastern end of the park towards Penge and running uphill north westwards ending before the private fishing lake.

I myself saw the subsequent excavation in the autumn of that summer; my children used the One O'clock Club day nursery which was in Crystal Palace Park Road. I clearly remember looking at the small excavation site where a hole approx: 20 x 20feet about ten feet deep exposing the tunnel roof.

I believe that when the park was handed over to Bromley Council from the GLC in the 1980's Bromley made great improvements and restored old features of the park and the tunnel had been hoped to be found and restored as a feature. I'm not sure what happened after that as the excavation hole was filled in and that was it. I had previously read of the story of a woman walking her dog and finding the tunnel with the supposed Victorian clad cadavers in another local newspaper the South London Press in the early 1980's. So it's all a bit of a lovely mystery but rest assured the tunnel was re found as I have shown.

Lawrence Jenkins 29/3/2013 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.45.220 (talk) 10:30, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Rediscovery
I've added a request for the rediscovery of the tunnel in 1992. The tale still has a good deal of traction locally, and ill-founded discoveries like this one still emerge from time to time. I'd welcome some clarification of this, but I'm not hopeful.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 10:29, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The "Marquis" (see previous post) is a is a prominent local archaeologist, real name Dr Per von Scheibner, originally from Berlin. Apparently he advises LFB about the dangers when new, unmapped and unexpected holes in the ground appear. As before, information from quality local news sources very welcome.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 17:09, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Belated thanks to User:Steamybrian2 for the fix—obviously the 1992 report was "fake news".--217.155.32.221 (talk) 21:30, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

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