15/5/2007

Day Six,
Today was interesting for me as we visited Huddersfield signal box first, a local station to me. We met an ex-Doncaster signaller and an experienced signaller training him. We looked around the signal box and had a good conversation with both signallers, I caught a photo of a freight thundering through towards Manchester. Now came the interesting bit! we drove over to Marsden and captured another picture of the freight we had seen pass through Huddersfield, and after this we decided to drive through Standedge tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in Britain, 3 mines and 57 yard *eek*

We started to drive through and it was so dark I could not see my hand infront of my face, the light behind got smaller and the light at the end of the tunnel got no bigger!, we stopped in the middle of the tunnel where there is a crossover between the up and down tunnels, and they used to say devil worshippers were there! it was really really dark, and there were no mobile signals and no radio waves to contact the outside world, we kept driving on which seemed like forever! it was getting really bumpy and jittery and just when I thought I wanted out, we were at the end! I was impressed with how I had overcome myself from automatically not going in, it was great to see daylight once again!


After that we had a drive around the Calder viewing Heaton Lodge and Bradley Junction, watching trains zoom past at high speeds.

After an action packed day I was exhausted, and we went home!