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Britain’s longest cycling ex-railway tunnel to open

Posted: 28 Mar 2013, 17:20
by John Ashworth
Britain’s longest cycling tunnel to open

A section of disused Somerset railway has been converted into the longest cycling tunnel in Britain, almost exactly 50 years since the Beeching Report forced large-scale closures of the rural rail network...

A much admired example of Victorian engineering, Combe Down Tunnel stretches 1,700-metre...