Settle Carlisle Railway Conservation Area (SCRCA) Contract Plan
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F.S. Williams: "The Midland Railway its rise and progress. A Narrative of Modern Enterprise" (1876)
"After passing over a long embankment, we run through an egg-shaped tunnel, from which we emerge near Lazonby. It was intended that this should have been an open cutting; but the material being sand, and the line going almost close to the vicarage, a 'covered way' was preferred."
Bradford Observer, 27 June 1872
"We next encounter a rather remarkable cutting over four hundred yards long, through sand. Its depth in the centre is more than seventy feet, and here a tunnel of solid masonry has been constructed, one hundred yards long, and then covered over."