Can it really be just sixty years
since that dark entrance witnessed
smoke and noise and smell
as coal and iron and stone
passed through on metal tracks
How quickly trees and grass
bracken briars and bush
have recovered the land
and now a small stream
flows where once those
metal wheels pushed hard
on iron rails now gone
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Cool! Can you walk through the tunnel? Do you need a flashlight?
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It’s currently sealed, Noelle, as there is a possible danger of collapse. However, there is a local society attempting to get lottery finance to have the whole length (about 270 yards) surveyed and then opened as a public footpath under the road. Something we’d love to see happen!
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Nature does know how to eradicate the doings of us humans. Maybe one day it will gather its forces and eradicate us.
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It is astounding, Lynette, how quickly, and how thoroughly nature can remove all trace of our activity. And, yes, if we fail to recognise our place within the natural world, I think nature will one day remove the living us from history and return us in a few million years as mere fossils.
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