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| Mardale Tunnel, Shap Rural | ||
| Mardale Tunnel | ||
| Stockdale Tunnel | ||
| site name:- | Haweswater Aqueduct | |
| civil parish:- | Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland) | |
| civil parish:- | Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tunnel | |
| locality type:- | aqueduct | |
| coordinates:- | NY47941308 | |
| coordinates:- | NY49160551 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4713 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4905 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
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| hearsay:- |
4¾mile tunnel built by Francois Cementation Co, begun 1930, taking 30 months to cut
and another 22 months of concreting. It was driven from the two ends with no intermediate
shafts, and was, at that time, the longest tunnel in UK built that way; the error
in the meeting of the two headers was impressively small. Several springs of water
were encountered, the worst being 6000 feet from the north end; it was sealed by cementation,
the injection of concrete at high pressure.. |
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| A 2 foot gauge railway transported spoil out, and cement in. Battery locomotives Progress
and Pioneer, made by Hudson Clarke and Co, Leeds, 1930, were used. |
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