Southwick tunnel night closures

[krakatoa]

I've just come back for a visit to good old Sussex after quite a while away, and I see the regular tunnel night closures still seem to be in operation. No other tunnel - Dartford, Blackwall, Mersey, Hatfield, Tyne etc - seem to have anything like such frequent inconvenient closures. Does anyone know what the hell the reason for them is? The info signs have never offered any explanation.

 

[bravohotelalpha]

They say it's top secret

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

It's so they can load and unload the missiles safely

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[Bob!]

Dartford usually has one of the 2 bores closed at night.

 

[Giraffe]

Alien or military base. Have been saying it for years. Used to live across the hill in Mile Oak when it opened two years late. A lot of late night activity goes on there when they close it. Military trucks and aircraft at 3am is abnormal behaviour.

 

[VAL1850]

Ssssshhhh the Russians are watching...

 

[krakatoa]

Dartford usually has one of the 2 bores closed at night.

I expect 1 is adequate at night.

 

[Weststander]

I was told that there was a major mistake in its design and construction, which will require maintenance work at weekends nights forever!

 

[Luke93]

I heard they store the cup final money in there.

 

[Dave the OAP]

It's where they keep the nuclear missiles.....shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

lewes has had closures recently although that was more for the re surfacing of South Street..

 

[studio150]

Its a time tunnel

 

[cloud]

If it's in the Argus, it must be true http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3615616.Southwick_Tunnel_is__secret_military_installation_/

 

[Is it PotG?]

There is, within said structure, a sophisticated mass of complex scientific hardware in constant need of maintenance and updating for nationally important measures. Ulloa's penalty SHALL be found.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Area 51 UK

 

[Guinness Boy]

Area 51 UK

I'd always suspected that was the whole of Southwick, and that they were quite open about it.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

I'd always suspected that was the whole of Southwick, and that they were quite open about it.

You say that-but in southwick is a house an normal house,yet once through the front door its a cross between a workingmans club,a nuclear bunker and some mountain side complex..

 

[BeHereNow]

It's a bit over half a mile away from me. So I could pop up there.

I have walked up the downs at night whilst drunk before. Haven't been abducted yet, although I do stand there hoping.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Tunnel closures will be a thing of the past, but only if we keep our strong leadership and our strong and stable economy.

 

[krakatoa]

I was told that there was a major mistake in its design and construction, which will require maintenance work at weekends nights forever!

This seems the most plausible explanation to me. No surprise that even to this day nobody has come clean about it. Though why should the poor taxpayer be informed, they only bloody paid for it.