Bransty-Corkickle railway tunnel
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Bransty-Corkickle railway tunnel by Harold Potts as part of the Geograph project.
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Bransty-Corkickle railway tunnel
Image: © Harold Potts Taken: 17 Jun 2007
A fine piece of engineering - a tunnel about one kilometre long running under the town. As a matter of further interest: running over the top of the tunnel [behind the parapet in the picture] is the line followed by one of the earliest railways ever built - the "waggon way" carrying iron-clad wooden rails which allowed horse-drawn transport of coal from William Pit to the harbour.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.553741
Longitude
-3.587579