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Cool mountain air and howling dynamic brakes set the scene as loaded grain train 54W emerges from the east portal of Merrimac Tunnel with NS 9747 & 9901 for power. The lead motor is the last of 859 D9-44CW’s delivered in “Thoroughbred” paint on the active roster.
Originally named Alleghany tunnel by the Virginian in 1914, this 5176’ bore was built on a 1.22% grade at the very top of Christiansburg Mountain, and even featured two ventilation fans housed in the brick buildings flanking the east end. I’ll never get tired of eastern mountain railroading!
Special thanks to Whitethorne extraordinare and conductor J.F. Smith for the help!
One of the four tunnels leading to/from the old Highgate Station which was abandoned in 1951 now being taken over by nature
This Tunnel Entrance in Goat Canyon was built into a mountain spur. The hillside however seems to be sliding down slope. The entrance is now askew and lower down the slope. This is what necessitated the building of Goat Canyon Trestle.
Bank of England, Manchester Branch (centre image, ground level)
The cotton industry was a major source of business for local banks and merchants around the start of the 19th century. Manchester’s importance as a commercial centre was recognised when the Bank of England established a branch in the town in 1826. Some 20 years later it moved into a suitably imposing new building, designed by one of the country’s leading architects, Charles Cockerell. The location was Upper King Street, almost directly opposite the old town hall. Manchester’s importance as a financial centre was further consolidated in 1836 when the Manchester Stock Exchange was opened in Exchange Street, in part to deal in the shares of the local joint-stock banking companies.
Cockerell’s Bank of England branch building (shown above) survives in King Street but it is no longer home to the bank, the latter having moved into new premises located at the junction of Portland Street and Charlotte Street in 1971.
This information was provided by Terry Wyke.
British Railways Express Blue liveried, Gresley designed LNER 'A4' 4-6-2 no.60007 ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ exits the tunnel at Yarwell as runs up to the Halt with the 14:00 Wansford-Yarwell Junction.
The Maas Tunnel in Rotterdam has been transformed into a glowing Tunnel of Love. Covered with 35.000 fluorescent heart-shaped stickers, the pedestrian section of the 580m long tunnel has become a dazzling visual spectacle.
The Tunnel of Love, the work of Dutch artist duo VOLLAERSZWART, is both an expression of love for Rotterdam, and also a birthday present for the Maas Tunnel, which celebrates its 77th birthday on Valentine’s Day.
Looking down stairs on the York Walls - lighting on the stairs brings the eyes the feet of the people down below
Whitehouse tunnel is 191 yards (175m) long and has a towpath running through it. This added a little extra spice to our walk!
BNSF eastbound local R-NWE8451-21 blasts out of Tunnel 3, and milepost 68 in the Columbia River Gorge east of Cooks, Washington, on BNSF's Fallbridge Subdivision. BNSF GP39E 2741 (former CB&Q rebuilt GP30) leads the train.
The Ghost of Harecastle Tunnel.
The month of December is a time for ghost stories! :)
The white cottage is the Tunnel Keepers Cottage, the instructions of the Tunnel Keeper must be adhered to at all times. The journey through the tunnel takes about 30 - 40 minutes. Looks quite spooky, look it up on youtube!
The Ghost Story.
The tunnel apparently suffers from a ‘haunting manifestation’, the ghost of a murdered woman, Kit Crewbucket, whose headless corpse was dumped in the canal in the 1800s. She was a poor woman murdered on a narrow-boat by the men she was travelling with. It is said that "Her shrieks can still be heard in woods nearby."
Three boatmen promised her they would give her transport to London on their canal barge. The men had all been drinking, they took a pint of porter and then set off with the woman through the Harecastle Tunnel. At the mouth of the tunnel, one of the boatmen took the pony up the track to Boathorse Road, and the other two set off into the tunnel with their passenger. the journey then would have been around 2 - 3 hours. The barge emerged at the other side carrying the boatmen but no woman. In the hope that she had riches in her luggage, they had murdered her and hid her body in the underground culvert to Goldenhill Colliery, known as Gilbert's Hole. She was found some days later in the tunnel, without her head.The boatmen were tried and executed for murder in Kidsgrove.
Kit Crewbucket.
Kit Crewbucket appears as the generic name of a spirit presence said to haunt various canal tunnels across the country and appearing in various forms depending upon the local folklore. Sometimes appears as a character name in pantomimes too.
Info on Harecastle from The Canal & River Trust.
Harecastle Tunnel is actually two tunnels - though only one is navigable today. They sit, side-by-side, on the Trent & Mersey Canal just north of Stoke-on-Trent. Both are nearly 3000 yards in length. The first Harecastle tunnel was engineered by James Brindley, took eleven years to construct, was completed in 1777, and was more than twice the length of Britain's longest tunnel at that time. The second was required to relieve congestion in the first, and was built by Thomas Telford. It took just three years to complete, and opened in 1827.
Today, diesel-powered boats use the tunnel: to solve the ventilation problem at the southern end an air extraction fan-house has been built around the portal. Unless a boat is actually passing the portal, airtight gates are closed, allowing the fan system to extract more efficiently.
P.s for those of you who have been following The Great Pottery Throw Down on the BBC, Middleport Pottery is about 3-4 miles south from the tunnel.
114. A Tunnel. theme for 115 pictures in 2015
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The Tünel (Tunnel ) is a short underground railway line in Istanbul, Turkey. It is an underground funicular with two stations, connecting the quarters of Karaköy and Beyoğlu. Located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn, the underground railway tunnel goes uphill from close to sea level and is about 573 metres long. Inaugurated on January 17, 1875, the Tünel is the second-oldest subterranean urban rail line in the world, after the London Underground (1863), and the first subterranean urban rail line in continental Europe.
A shot of the Innocent Railway, Edinburgh. This tunnel (the St. Leonards Tunnel) is just over half a kilometre long and makes up part of the line and it is so named based on the fact that, while open, the line never had a fatal accident.
It now forms part of a footpath/cyclepath.
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