In 1869...

over 2000 men and women moved to a remote valley in one of the most inhospitable parts of the country under the direction of the Midland Railway Company. Their job was to construct a viaduct across a huge glacial valley, and tunnel through a local hill known as Blea Moor. It took them five years and cost many of them their lives. 

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A hundred and fifty years later, the viaduct and tunnel still stand as a monument to Victorian engineering prowess.

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