Within Amberley Museum is a tunnel now used to store 2ft gauge railway rolling stock. According to the date it was built in 1948 and never had any railway track. In fact it led from Amberley chalk pits to a smaller chalk pit. The far end is sealed up and has a few ventilation bricks. The tunnel is not open to members of the public and few volunteers have seen inside. It is better known as "Mainstrike Mine" in the James Bond film "A View to a Kill".
The entrance to the tunnel
Orenstein & Koppel OK4013/1930 "Sonia" Diamond Tread (Chart) Ltd (Ashford).
The red locomotive is ex-George Cohen & Sons (Swansea) and Chinnor Cement & Lime Co (Oxfordshire) Ransomes & Rapier diesel (80 of 1937), an extremely rare survivor!
Ransomes & Rapier RR80/1937
Hudson Hunslet HE3653/1946 Thakeham Tiles, Storrington, West Sussex
No idea - think it is being used for spares
we think this is Hudswell Clarke DM686/1948 National Coal Board, Tillmanstone Colliery, Kent
unknown passenger tunnel carriage, and the end of the tunnel
Ruston & Hornsby RH187081/1937 ex-City of York Sewage Department is seen as my hosts leave the tunnel
The entrance to the tunnel
Orenstein & Koppel OK4013/1930 "Sonia" Diamond Tread (Chart) Ltd (Ashford).
The red locomotive is ex-George Cohen & Sons (Swansea) and Chinnor Cement & Lime Co (Oxfordshire) Ransomes & Rapier diesel (80 of 1937), an extremely rare survivor!
Ransomes & Rapier RR80/1937
Hudson Hunslet HE3653/1946 Thakeham Tiles, Storrington, West Sussex
No idea - think it is being used for spares
we think this is Hudswell Clarke DM686/1948 National Coal Board, Tillmanstone Colliery, Kent
unknown passenger tunnel carriage, and the end of the tunnel
Ruston & Hornsby RH187081/1937 ex-City of York Sewage Department is seen as my hosts leave the tunnel
