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Report - Farleigh Down endless tunnel, Dec 2013

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paulpowers

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I had to work in Wiltshire but wanted to be home by a reasonable time so wasn't going to go for one of the quarries.

So I went to Subway in Trowbridge on the way past for a footlong spicy italian and a bottle of fanta and headed down Farleigh down tunnel.

It's basically a long box tunnel so once I finished my sub and got a few pics CBA set in and I decided to head home.

Monkton Farleigh ammunition depot utilised an old stone quarry below a plateau some 450 feet above the valley floor in which ran the main line railway that was its principal source of supply. Before the depot could be commissioned, an efficient means was need to bring in ammunition from the railway at Farleigh Down Sidings. The sidings were just over a mile from the depot as the crow flies but more than four miles by road along steep and tortuous country lanes.

In November 1937 the Great Western Railway were contracted to lay the sidings and build a 1000 foot long raised loading platform complete with a narrow gauge track to carry the ammunition wagons. Outline plans had already been prepared to drive a mile long tunnel from the heart of the workings terminating in an underground sorting yard built beneath the sidings in the valley below.

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How the hell do people get shopping trolleys to these far out places?

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