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 1842, 182 years ago, horses hauled 4,916 water barrels and 464 spoil skips up nine working shafts at Saltwood Tunnel, a total lift of 555,192 feet (105 miles) for a cost of about £37.
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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