| Bourne Tramway Tunnel, St. Helens. Approx 30yds, SJ517924 |
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"Ansdale Wood Colliery at Elton Head actually predated the construction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. In 1824 the brothers John, James and Peter Bourne of Liveroool and Robert Robinson, coal proprietor of Sutton, obtained a lease of 20 acres from Bartholomew Bretherton. The lease included the right to contstruct a tramroad from Elton Head to the Prescot to Warrington Turnpike near Kendricks Cross. When the Liverpool and Manchester line was built, the tramroad was carried under the railway in a narrow tunnel at a skew angle." - Industrial Railways of St Helens, Widnes and Warrington (C.H.A. Townley and J.A. Peden)... That's the waffle, here's the tunnel... |
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