Entering Cheddleton Tunnel, Staffordshire
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Entering Cheddleton Tunnel, Staffordshire
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 28 May 2011
This is the south portal of the tunnel, cut into red sandstone. The tunnel is 531 yards (486 metres) in length,between Cheddleton and Leekbrook. The North Staffordshire Railway was opened in 1849 from North Rode, near Macclesfield, to Uttoxeter in the south, a distance of 27¾ miles. It was closed to passengers in 1965 and freight in 1988. The Churnet Valley Railway Company has been running steam trains between Kingsley and Froghall, Cheddleton and Leekbrook Junction, since 2001. (Services around Cheddleton and Consall were earlier). Since late 2010, an alliance with the new Moorland and City Railway Company has resulted in monthly steam weekends up to Cauldon Low.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.072951
Longitude
-2.030034