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| Bleamoor Tunnel, Dent | ||
| Bleamoor Tunnel | ||
| Blea Moor Tunnel | ||
| site name:- | Settle and Carlisle Railway | |
| site name:- | Blea Moor | |
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | railway tunnel | |
| coordinates:- | SD76158187 | |
| coordinates:- | SD77538384 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7681 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
| county:- | North Yorkshire | |
| locality type:- | railway tunnel | |
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 BRW21.jpg North portal. (taken 13.11.2009) |
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 BUG51.jpg South approach. (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG52.jpg South portal:- "1874" (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG53.jpg Spoil tips on Blea Moor, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG54.jpg Spoil tips on Blea Moor, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG55.jpg Airshaft, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG56.jpg Airshaft, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG57.jpg Airshaft, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG58.jpg Airshaft, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG59.jpg Airshaft, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG60.jpg Airshaft, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG61.jpg Airshaft, (taken 24.3.2011)  BUG62.jpg North portal. (taken 24.3.2011) |
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| The iron gratings on the airshafts seem to have been replaced fairly recently. |
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| hearsay:- |
2629 yards long. Built 1870-75. |
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| While the cutting at the north portal was being excavated there was a cloudburst in
the hills. Without warning a wave of water 5 feet high came off the fell into the
cutting, drowning two of the seven men who were working there. A horse and wagon taking
spoil out was swept away and buried beneath hundreds of tons of debris from the mountain
side. The rain recorded in Dentdale was 2.5 inches in ¾hour. |
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