Because the canal tunnel was lined with clay " puddle " it collects water which ends up in the rail tunnel making the latter very wet.
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In the 1820s, they founded Pritchard and Hoof, who specialised in building canal tunnels, including some of the most important of the era.
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At the time of construction, Norwood Tunnel was the joint longest canal tunnel in Britain, and it was sixth longest by the time it collapsed.
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For most of its length, it is situated to the north of the canal tunnel but passes over the canal tunnel just inside each tunnel entrance.
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For most of its length, it is situated to the north of the canal tunnel but passes over the canal tunnel just inside each tunnel entrance.
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A "'trolley boat "'( a descriptive neologism not used contemporaneously ) is an electrically driven boat on canals and particularly in canal tunnels.
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It was superseded as the longest canal tunnel in England in 1811 by the Huddersfield Narrow Canal's Britain-though, unlike Sapperton, Standedge can only accommodate.
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This process of pushing against the walls or roof of a canal tunnel with one's legs in order to propel the narrowboat through the tunnel is called Legging.
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He is fighting for drinking and irrigation water for Nalgonda district in Telangana, formerly Andhra Pradesh, India, by completing decades old Srisailam Left Bank Canal Tunnel scheme.
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The owners of the Thames and Medway Canal tunnel that linked Medway ( specifically Strood ) with Gravesend turned half their canal into a railway bringing the first rails to Medway.
