Burdale Tunnel

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The Burdale Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the now abandoned Malton & Driffield Railway (MDR). It lies near the village of Burdale in North Yorkshire, between the former Burdale and Wharram railway stations, and was built to take the rail line through the hills of the Yorkshire Wolds.

Construction began in 1847 with the sinking of three vertical shafts, but the tunnel, which was 1774 yards (1622 m) in length, was not completed until 1853. The MDR has been closed since 1958, and the tunnel portals have been bricked up since 1961.

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• West (North) Portal:
  • SE861644
  • http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/83192
• East (South) Portal:
  • SE870631
  • http://photosforthefuture.thehistorychannel.co.uk/?cmd=ecard&photo_id=273 (This picture is incorrectly captioned as 1958, when in fact the bricking up took place in 1961.)
  • http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/30840 (This picture is incorrectly geo-referenced.)