Well, I knocked a couple of tunnels off my to-do list. I need to get it finished by the time the weather’s nice again, so I can complete another to-do list, this time for mountains. Clydach and Gellifelen tunnels are sorted, visit the report HERE!
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Glad to hear the line is, in a sense, still open, at least to intrepid blokes with miner’s helmets.
I rode on it from builth wells in the Wye valley, picking upthe connection at Llangorse Lake junction, a little steam train that came out from Brecon on its way to Newport, which would go through merthyr. I think it was the highest railway in S Wales, the train climbed above the reservoirs below slowed to a walking pace as it climbed into a tunnel (Torpantau according to the map) at the summit below the BRecon beacons, and when it came out it coasted down to newport, stopping everywhere. so perhaps the easiest way to get into the tunenl is to go back in time.
this was (Heaven help me!) in the summer of 1959.
Interested to hear of this development of speleology. You might like to know there are some very long dank tunnels under the Pennines, and under the Cotawolds.
Ken