Believe it or not I have only ever photographed two railway tunnels, with this being the second one. The first was seven years ago and my photos of it were awful. This one however was too local to me to not do at some point, and it was a lovely and cool, if a little damp, place to be on a hot May afternoon.

The tunnel was constructed in the mid-1800s, and was in use until the line was shut down in 1962.

Getting to it was simple enough after finding a spot to park as close to it as possible. After about a ten minute walk and a muddy scramble down the side of the portal we were in. Due to the amount of heavy sporadic rain we've had in the area over the last week or so, there was a lot of water coming into the tunnel from the roof, which made parts of it feel more like being in a waterfall than a tunnel and I ended up emerging from the portal afterwards considerably wetter than I was expecting (hurr durr).

The calcite deposits in here are the main draw, they are probably among the most impressive in any tunnel in the country, caused by a constant stream of water coming down the walls over the last six decades.

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Thanks for looking

Really cool!

It's weird how it looks like the deposits would be soft, but I guess that's because it looks like bacon fat

Nice post

Epic shots! With the colors of the calcite, that yellow-green light you have works really well.