LMS Route: Birmingham New Street to Nuneaton

Arley Tunnel: mrat1875

A 1900 photograph of Arley Railway Tunnel's repair gang led by John Stain, the MR's Charge Hand. He is the tall man with the bowler hat and beard, who subsequently died in 1904 following a stroke while working in this tunnel. He is buried just inside the gates of St Wilfrid’s churchyard. At this time, the tunnel entrance lay much closer to Arley; it was opened out into a cutting in the 1940s to overcome damage from colliery subsidence.

Peter Lee

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