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Shute Shelve Tunnel -Transition - Right side looking North
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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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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. -
A cyclist riding in to Shute Shelve Tunnel at the South Portal Cyclist
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The Strawberry Line Trail runs (mostly) along the route of the old Strawberry Line Railway in Somerset and North Somerset, in the South West of England. The trail currently runs from Yatton to Cheddar but there is a petition to have it extended to Wells. Here you go...You can sign the petition, if you want! http://www.thestrawberryline.org.uk/index.php -
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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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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 -
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View of the South portal of Shute Shelve Tunnel on the Strawberry Line, where it cuts through the Mendip Hills in Somerset, SW England. Seen here with a couple of bicycle tail lights, somewhere near the other end of the tunnel. (If you go through there on a pushbike, you will definitely need to have a working set of lights. It can be very dark in the middle of the tunnel. (There are, apparently, some solar-powered lights in the tunnel - but I have never seen them working yet...) Here you go...You can sign the petition, if you want! http://www.thestrawberryline.org.uk/index.php -
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Moss and Ferns dripping with water, seen just outside the Northern end of Shute Shelve Tunnell on the Strawberry Line trail in Somerset, SW England. Shute Shelve Hill is one of the hills in the Mendips of Somerset, SW England. -
Mosses and Ivy dripping with water outside the Northern end of Shute Shelve Tunnel
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Shute Shelve Hill is one of the Mendip Hills of Somerset, SW England. The old Strawberry Line Railway ran through a tunnel, whilst the modern A38 road was constructed through a series of cuttings in the same area.
