Cadeby Tunnel interior

This the Cadeby Tunnel near Conisbrough on the former South Yorkshire Junction Railway. The single track tunnel is 164 yards long, originally built about 1894, closed to freight in 1964. The photo was taken about 50 metres in from the west portal, looking through towards the eastern end.

The tunnel is lined with brick and Magnesian Limestone quarried locally. It is an easy and safe walk through, mostly dry. The trackbed in the cutting just beyond the western portal has been partly filled in with soil and ?colliery waste.

For this photo, the exposure was 30 sec at f/8 ISO 100; no flash. I also painted-in the foreground and middle distance with a LED head-lamp, which accounts for the blue-ish magenta colour cast.

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