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Article: Railway company had tunnel vision.
- Article from:
- Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2008
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AN AMBITIOUS plan for a 550-yard railway tunnel underneath the castle headland has been unearthed by a Scarbor-ough historian.
Tony Rowley, 49, said the route would have branched off the old Scarborough to Whitby line and along the proposed Royal Albert Drive, in the North Bay, before going underground below Castle Road.
The tunnel would have measured 550 yards and the line would have finished at the end of the West Pier - so cargoes of fish could be loaded directly from the fishing fleet.
Mr Rowley said: "There would be no delay and the fish could be taken right off the docks. The major thing against it is the incline and the line was going to ...