On this day in 1971, 54 years ago, workmen started to lift the track from Alloa bridge, a magnificent 21-span structure across the waters of the Forth.
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Although its southern portal is now buried, the northern entrance to Ardsley's curved tunnel still looks out into a short cutting which walkers pass by on the Trans Pennine Trail.