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Great North Road - Calpe Generating Station & Calpe WWII Hospital - Gibraltar 2015
***Pic Heavy Warning***
Underneath the Rock of Gibraltar lies the Great North Road, a tunnel system that was constructed in WWII that connects to the 18th Century Great Siege Tunnels and Fosse Way Tunnel (of which, Fosse Way is still used by the military and is a strict no photography area!
To help power the area was the Calpe Generating Station and at the very end (North) of the GNR tunnel is the WWII Hospital.
Below you will see the GNR, Generating System and the Hospital, in the order they were photographed (over 2 days and with permission).
The Great North Road
The entrance is at Maida Vale, the outside road names at intersections are mirrored on many inside parts as well. It [the road way] travels all the way down to Calpe Hole Generating Station, a big underground power station. Smaller pedestrian tunnels allow a route up to the Great Siege Tunnels which date back to the 18th Century.
Much of the spoil created during its construction was used for land reclamation in extending the (now) Gibraltar International Airport runway.
The GNR is no longer used bar for access, training and water transportation along a big pipe that occasionally scares the crap out of you.
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2. This caged off area takes you down to COMCEN, the old NATO command center,
but a recent development has meant that hot air is sent up the shaft causing it to be impassible and potentially effecting the atmosphere in the rest of the system.
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6 & 7.
8. Submarine nets
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11. Kitchens
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Underneath the Rock of Gibraltar lies the Great North Road, a tunnel system that was constructed in WWII that connects to the 18th Century Great Siege Tunnels and Fosse Way Tunnel (of which, Fosse Way is still used by the military and is a strict no photography area!
To help power the area was the Calpe Generating Station and at the very end (North) of the GNR tunnel is the WWII Hospital.
Below you will see the GNR, Generating System and the Hospital, in the order they were photographed (over 2 days and with permission).
The Great North Road
The entrance is at Maida Vale, the outside road names at intersections are mirrored on many inside parts as well. It [the road way] travels all the way down to Calpe Hole Generating Station, a big underground power station. Smaller pedestrian tunnels allow a route up to the Great Siege Tunnels which date back to the 18th Century.
Much of the spoil created during its construction was used for land reclamation in extending the (now) Gibraltar International Airport runway.
The GNR is no longer used bar for access, training and water transportation along a big pipe that occasionally scares the crap out of you.
1.
2. This caged off area takes you down to COMCEN, the old NATO command center,
but a recent development has meant that hot air is sent up the shaft causing it to be impassible and potentially effecting the atmosphere in the rest of the system.
3.
4.
5.
6 & 7.
8. Submarine nets
9.
10.
11. Kitchens
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.