Its a tunnel that was built in the late 1800s and its original uses was so that a farmer could get to the otherside of his property and a train service could use it to get to railway stations but the area is a park now and the tunnel is something you can walk through to access some woods that have trails and public footpaths through it. There is also a heritage train service that still uses this.
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Honestly, you’re might have a tough time getting this through.
A couple of questions: This is on publically accessible land now? Is there a walking path that leads up to it?
If you use your supporting information to really sell the history of it, its former use, and it’s existance as a tunnel that’s part of a walking path/entrance to a park area and you get the right voters then you might have some luck.
I would avoid mentioning the specific’s of it being part of an old farm, some reviewers wouldn’t read past that and mark it as private property.
I’d vote for it.
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I love Victorian Railway infrastructure.
The emphasis on this one was that it facilitated the trail. So I would say that is what to go, along with history about the line.
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I love this, its a genuine point of interest that youd walk to if you were in the area in my opinion.
So this would get a good vote from me
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Have you checked for a PROW?
Where is it?
There is a public footpath and the notts wolds way trail goes through the tunnel, I’ve already had loads of the notts wolds way trail markers accepted in the wood behind it aswell. The location is 52.834543,-1.186897
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Sounds perfect!
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Sounds great. Go for it
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Gogogo
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This is what ive written so far.
A unique point on the hilly and open countryside notts wolds way trail, the east leake tunnel was built in the late 1890s for the expansion of the great central railway. The expansion was from Loughborough to nottingham and it created a fast, direct route for goods and passengers between the North, East Midlands and London. This line was important for carrying coal as it connected to nottingham which was a major point in transporting coal to the south of England as the great central railway offered a faster route to London than the midland mainline. This particular line in it’s later life was used for transporting goods from the Gypsum works (British Gypsum head office now) in east leake to the south of England and receiving deliveries from Middlesbrough and Ratcliffe-on-soar power station.
I will probably have to shortern this😆
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Edit and don’t forget capitals.
Was it a Beeching closure? I would mention when it closed.
But you seem to have forgotten its use today on the trail….
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It was a beeching closure. The main railway station to pick passengers up closed May 5, 1969. The second one in the village was built after the main one in 1911 for the golf club and that closed March 4, 1963 but it stayed open until 1980 for freight trains for british gypsum. Than that re opened In 2000 for freight trains to british gypsum until 2020 now its being preserved and hoping to connect back to Leicester.
I need more space for the description.
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Even as a non-UK reviewer, I love this, especially for the history (I’m a little bit of a history buff). So yeah, it would be something I’d seek out and explore, plus, there’s a trail, so one could get in a little exercise.
As for the description, choose which parts of it are most important. Whatever you have to remove, you might want to consider putting in the supporting info.
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I’d vote for it, but do try to find the official name of the structure to lead with.