Not realising that there was an earlier railway tunnel (Actually three) I did a quick google search - a coiple of interesting links:
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=257650 http://www.kidsgrove.info/main/modules.php? op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=27218 Tim --- In [email protected], Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From BBC website > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7557482.stm> > > ---- > > Three maintenance workers became ill after breathing in fumes in a > disused railway tunnel in Staffordshire. > > Emergency crews were called to the Harecastle Tunnel in Kidsgrove just > after 1100. [Tuesday] > > Firefighters were called to help reach two of the workers in the tunnel, > while another two escaped without being affected by the fumes. > > One man, believed to be in his 20s, was taken to hospital for further > treatment. > > ---- > > Doesn't this tunnel link to the open canal tunnel? Wonder what they were > doing in there... > > Steve > NB Bream >
