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Today's anniversary...

On this day in 1837, 188 years ago, John Cooke Bourne completed his famous wash drawing showing the activity in Kilsby Tunnel's working shaft, regularly used today to illustrate the challenges of Victorian tunnel construction.

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The Border Counties Railway across moorland beyond Kielder on a low embankment, en route to Riccarton Junction.

Picnickers enjoy the view of Water-cum-Jolly Dale in the Peaks, 90 feet above the River Wye. They're sitting on an artificial ledge, built to carry the main line between Cressbrook and Litton tunnels.

Today, the northern approach cutting to the now-buried Duckmanton Tunnel is a nature reserve.

Having left Combe Down Tunnel, trains on the Somerset & Dorset headed south through a stone-walled cutting.

In the middle of nowhere, the Waverley's trackbed curves north through a shallow cutting.

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The Border Counties Railway across moorland beyond Kielder on a low embankment, en route to Riccarton Junction.

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Sept 2008

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Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.

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