Boughton Brake Tunnel. Notts, March 13.

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British Rail opened a four-mile single-track branch to the new Bevercotes Colliery in 1961, linking it to the network at Boughton Junction. It was closed temporarily between January 1962 and August 1965, and saw its last train on 18th June 1993.
The line featured a 350-yard bore known locally as Mummies Tunnel, but correctly titled Boughton Brake. The portals are brick-built whilst the interior features near-vertical brick side walls incorporating regular refuges and a segmental arch concrete roof.







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Bit different to leaves on the line!

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Boughton Brake Tunnel, North portal, 352 yards.

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Thanks for looking:)
 
Looks like a fantastic wander, I love old railway lines, but have never yet walked one that still had rails.
 
Looks like a fantastic wander, I love old railway lines, but have never yet walked one that still had rails.

Cheers OMJ, There's always something special about a set of rusty tracks and combining it with a tunnel. Got to love old railway porn!:)
 
I really do want to do more of these colliery lines, I have found a lot of them still have tracks in place!! Yum;)
 

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