Blocked Up Tunnel Under the Stockton to Billingham Railway Line
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Blocked Up Tunnel Under the Stockton to Billingham Railway Line
Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: 30 Nov 2005
I am surmising that this was built to allow passage for horse carts across the railway but was blocked up when such traffic ceased as it would have been cheaper than maintaining the tunnel. Pedestrians were left to climb the railway embankment and cross the tracks, a which route today is a Public Footpath using the stile to the right.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.600198
Longitude
-1.308064