Portals of longer tunnels
Portals of longer tunnels
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Discarded for a younger model next door, Colwall Old Tunnel is one of the country's longest disused bores at 1,567 yards.
June 2012
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.
June 2012Forgotten 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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