Harrogate (Brunswick) Tunnel
Harrogate (Brunswick) Tunnel
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Stairs leading from the air raid shelter to street level.
(All photos © Phill Davison: Leeds Historical Expedition Society)
On 20th July 1848, the inaurgural train rumbled through Harrogate tunnel into Brunswick station. Fourteen years later, the North Eastern railway opened a station in the centre of town and Brunswick was closed to passengers, though it clung to life as a goods depot for a short while. With vertical walls and a curved roof, the tunnel runs directly beneath Langcliffe Avenue. It was only built to keep the unsightly railway out-of-sight of Harrogate’s affluent townsfolk. During the Second World War, it was converted to act as an air-raid shelter.
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July 2008