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Beachbum:
You have it John Walker, I must visit this Walk/Cycle Route this Summer.

The last Train was December 1952 (mainline problems) and the Lines removed in 1953.

https://crabandwinkle.org/

http://www.forgottenrelics.org/tunnels/tyler-hill-tunnel/

John Walker:
I used to walk through that tunnel when I was a nipper.  I think the rails were still in place then but no trains.  At the age of eleven, I started secondary school at Archbishops CofE school.  The tunnel entrance was within the school grounds.  The first hundred feet was used as a gardening store.  There was a new wall to block the rest of the tunnel off.  In recent years there has been talk of repairing the collapsed section and making it part of the Crab and Winkle cycleway.  I don't think it was deemed as practical.

Beachbum:
The tunnel is Grade II* Listed.  It is 828 yards (757 metres) long and was opened on May 3rd 1830.  It was the first railway tunnel with a regular passenger service – in the world.

stuartwaters:
Would this by chance, have been the first purpose-built railway tunnel in Britain?

Beachbum:
THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING.................

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