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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Patrick Daly

Inside creepy train tunnel that once joined two villages and left abandoned for decades

A creepy tunnel that was mothballed more than 60 years ago will remain that way after authorities ordered the forgotten train route to be fenced off.

The south-west Wales tunnel that helped to link Rhondda and Swansea was crucial to the mining trade when it was built in the late 19th century.

But a workaround route that was shorter ended up seeing the tracks ripped up, with the last train running through the stone covering in 1960.

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