Looking down to the tunnel mouth
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Looking down to the tunnel mouth
Image: © Jonathan Thacker Taken: 29 Sep 2017
The east portal of the lower of the two Silkstone tunnels on the Wombwell to Silkstone West line. This was one of the steepest gradients on a British railway. The noise of four steam locomotives getting a loaded coal train up the bank to Penistone must have been terrific (and conditions in the tunnels appalling). The line was electrified for the last 30 years or so of its existence.
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Image Location
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53.53258
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-1.563804