Mail Rail - diverging tunnels
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The photograph on this page of Mail Rail - diverging tunnels by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Mail Rail - diverging tunnels
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 1 Jun 2022
The layout around the Mount Pleasant sorting office is particularly complex, but essentially allows trains from either direction to loop round without having to reverse. Thanks to whoever put the layout on OpenStreetMap for geolocating this underground junction where one large diameter tunnel splits into two smaller ones.
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Image Location
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51.524404
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