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DSY011

18th July 2010 21:03

Railway Tunnels handed over to Cycle Charity

Two disused railway tunnels near Bath have been handed over to the cycling charity Sustrans. The tunnals were on the Somerset & Dorset Railway line.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-10673789

Ploughman

19th July 2010 18:11

I hope there was no thoughts on a reopening for this stretch of line.

ACE	21st July 2010 09:22

Nice to see some form of restoration of THE classic S & D route, like other parts, it is slowly reawakening. Personally speaking, any form of re use rather than left abandoned, is fine by me, as in walking/cycling, but most of all rail reinstatement of course!!!

merryhampton

27th January 2011 21:36

I fully agree with you ACE in that any leisure use is better than decay. I do remember, some 30 years or so ago, driving my car from the station at Midsomer Norton northwards along the remains of the track bed. It was only a few hundred yards but it felt good! Wish I had a Range Rover back then, I would have gone further!

locojoe

27th January 2011 21:53

Good news

Good news for cyclists and the everyone else Syd.:)

wyvern

28th January 2011 07:50

Will they have the sounds of trains passing like Ashbourne Tunnel?

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