On this day in 1844, 182 years ago, engineer James Trubshaw laid the first brick in Caldon Tunnel, part of a tramroad serving the limestone quarries of the Staffordshire Moorlands.
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The Border Counties Railway across moorland beyond Kielder on a low embankment, en route to Riccarton Junction.