Entrance to Trubshaw's Tunnel
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Entrance to Trubshaw's Tunnel
Image: © Ian Calderwood Taken: 28 Apr 2007
Trubshaw's Tunnel was dug for the 1847 Caldon Low railway. The railway was a self-acting inclined plane, where empty wagons travelling upward were attached by a cable via a brake drum at the top of the plane to wagons loaded with limestone travelling downwards.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.02934
Longitude
-1.906768