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Compilation 11: Flooding the Rock Tunnel, Dudley Tunnel
Inland Waterway video

Follows the flooding of the Rock Tunnel, at Dudley in 1988 and the first attempts to float a narrowboat into the tunnel for over 100 years. Once the historic remains of the sunken narrowboat were floated to safety, the Dudley Canal Trust and Dudley tunnel trips limited were able to take a steel narrowboat into the Rock tunnel; the first such journey since the limestone mines closed.

It was a tight fit, but the experiment was a success and led to the tunnel becoming part of a through route used today by the trip boats which take visitors through the fascinating labyrinth of caverns and canals. NGR: (139) SO 945 916 Recorded 1988 This tape has no commentary. Running Time: 10 mins. £ 6.58 Also available as part of a longer collection; see Compilation No. 15: "Dudley Tunnel 1988 to 1989"

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