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No light at end of the Woodhead tunnels

15 November 2013
 

Two disused Victorian rail tunnels under the Pennines on the former ‘Woodhead route’ between Manchester and Sheffield will be sealed up following the Government’s decision not to purchase them for possible future transport use. The National Grid recently ceased using the tunnels for high voltage cabling after installing new cables in the parallel Woodhead tunnel built in 1953 (the Woodhead route closed to rail in 1981). The Government consulted earlier this year on buying the...

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