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Freightliner 66529 Rise Hill

April 19 2005. Freightliner 66529 has just passed through Dent station and will shortly enter Rise Hill tunnel. After Blea Moor the next physical obstacle faced by the Midland engineers was the mountainous section of Rise Hill which lay between Dentdale and Garsdale. The tunnel, originally named Black Moss Tunnel connects Rise Hill and Mossdale Moor is 1,213 yards in length and has two ventilation shafts, the deepest of which is 147 feet.

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Uploaded on June 8, 2024
Taken on April 19, 2005