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Southern Portal of St Lawrence Tunnel on Isle of Wight.
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The railway from Merstone to Ventnor was the first route to close on the Isle of Wight. The once quite scenic route last saw a train almost 70 x years to the day this picture was taken in September 2022. The pictures shows the Southern (Ventnor end) of St Lawrence Tunnel ( sometimes know as High Hat Tunnel) as it looks today.© Tim Penycate
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Shute Shelve Tunnel -Transition - Right side looking North
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From the album: Out and about in Somerset
Shute Shelve Tunnel on the Strawberry Line Trail in Somerset and North Somerset, in the South West of England. The old railway tunnel passes through a ridge between Shute Shelve Hill and Winscombe Hill in the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Although the tunnel is only about 180m long, it passes through a very marked transition in rock strata about two thirds of the way through, when entering through the North portal, (coming from Winscome and heading South towards Axbridge) - changing abruptly from soft marl to hard limestone. Where the tunnel was cut through the soft marl, it has a lining of brick and stone, whereas the section through the hard limestone has bare, unlined walls. The photo shows the transition between the lined and unlined sections of the tunnel. -
Shute Shelve Tunnel - Transition - Left side looking North
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From the album: Out and about in Somerset
Shute Shelve Tunnel on the Strawberry Line Trail in Somerset and North Somerset, in the South West of England. (The tunnel is on the border between the two counties...) The photo shows flow-stone forming on the transition between the unlined section where the old railway tunnel was cut through hard limestone and the brick and stone lining where the rock strata changes to soft marl. -
From the album: Out and about in Somerset
Photographed in the cutting leading up to the Southern portal of the Shute Shelve Tunnel on the old Strawberry Line trail in Somerset. -
Shute Shelve Tunnel North Portal - Thinking About It!
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From the album: Out and about in Somerset
Haha! They are probably just having a look at all the wonderful mosses and other growth on the rocks around the tunnel entrance. Mind you, it's pretty dark in there... Scary! ('Nearly scarred the life out of me, anyway!!) Here you go...You can sign the petition, if you want! http://www.thestrawberryline.org.uk/index.php -
Shute Shelve Tunnel North Portal - Going in!
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From the album: Out and about in Somerset
Wonderful old tunnel on the Strawberry Line trail in Somerset, South West England. This is the North Portal, covered in a wonderful growth of moss, ferns and 'all sorts' of other plants. Here you go...You can sign the petition, if you want! http://www.thestrawberryline.org.uk/index.php
