A Sticky End
The northern portal of the disused Burdale Tunnel, the major engineering feature of an abandoned railway line that traversed the chalky Yorkshire Wolds in linking Malton and Driffield. Work on the tunnel, 16 yards short of a mile in length, began in 1847 and was finally completed six years later after a break owing to financial difficulties for the promoters. Burdale Tunnel burrows beneath Wharram Percy Wold. The unremunerative 20-mile line closed in 1958 and the tunnel portals were sealed three years later. Water bearing chalk and shale proved a major problem during the tunnel's construction and led to serious roof collapses in the Seventies and Eighties. This end of the tunnel is about 100 yards off a right of way from the former Wharram station.
A Sticky End
The northern portal of the disused Burdale Tunnel, the major engineering feature of an abandoned railway line that traversed the chalky Yorkshire Wolds in linking Malton and Driffield. Work on the tunnel, 16 yards short of a mile in length, began in 1847 and was finally completed six years later after a break owing to financial difficulties for the promoters. Burdale Tunnel burrows beneath Wharram Percy Wold. The unremunerative 20-mile line closed in 1958 and the tunnel portals were sealed three years later. Water bearing chalk and shale proved a major problem during the tunnel's construction and led to serious roof collapses in the Seventies and Eighties. This end of the tunnel is about 100 yards off a right of way from the former Wharram station.