Urban Exploration III: Tunnel Wellington

“the Wellington Tunnel was abandoned in 1994, having been closed for security reasons. Plunging under the Lachine Canal, the entrance to the tunnel is situated at the tip of Wellington Street, its exit on the other side having been buried. In the past, the Wellington tunnel was used by tramways, vehicles and pedestrians, but was eventually replaced by a bridge. It inhabits one of the rare pieces of fallow industrial land in the area that isn’t undergoing renovation given its vocation (a tunnel), its placement (under a highway) and the state it’s in.”

A while ago, I went with fellow photographers (and urban explorers) Controleman and genitalsky into the Wellington tunnel (Montréal, QC, Canada), those are the shots that came out of that photo session:

This is the entrance into the emergency exit shaft…

… and this is the emergency exit shaft:

For more shots of the wellington tunnel, check out those posts: Le ventre de la bête and Willy.

~ by jasmincormier on January 27, 2008.