On this day in 1842, 184 years ago, the Edinburgh Leith and Newhaven Railway inaugurated its 1-mile horse-drawn service between Canonmills and Newhaven.
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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.