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Report - Glenfarg Tunnel, Scotland - April 2014

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paulpowers

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I had driven up for work and was looking at a 5 hour drive home so I decided to take a break, a quick check on the interwebs and these popped up.

I nipped in the local Tesco first and picked up a sweet chilli + chicken wrap and a can of cherry relentless and drove the 9 minutes it took to get to a layby near the southern portal.

The history bit and pics are below

The city of Perth, 27 miles to the north, was served by railways from the north, west and east. To greatly reduce journey times into Edinburgh, the North British Railway drove a ten-mile route southwards from the Bridge of Earn, rejoining its network at Mawcarse Junction.

Construction had been attended by a number of fatal accidents. On Tuesday 6th December 1887, 48-year-old James Matheson, a labourer from Skye, was struck on his side with great violence after a shot was fired in the heading, propelling a stone towards him as he stood 40 yards away. Knocked to the ground and rendered insensible, he was removed to his lodgings but expired before medical attention arrived.

On Tuesday 11th September 1888, a labourer named Gray, aged 35, had to have his left leg amputated after it was crushed by a falling rock. He also sustained a head injury. Thursday 12th December 1889 saw an explosion seriously injure a labourer on the night shift, ultimately claiming him. Despite this trail of devastation, work on the line was finally completed at end of April 1890.

Services continued for a few months short of 80 years, ending on 5th January 1970. Despite being the shortest route from Perth to Edinburgh by some distance, the railway through Glenfarg was sacrificed to allow the M90 motorway to occupy sections of the trackbed.




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