Clayton Tunnel is a railway tunnel located near the villages of Clayton and Pyecombe in West Sussex, between Hassocks and Preston Park railway stations...
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The Clayton Tunnel rail crash occurred on Sunday 25 August 1861, five miles (8 km) from Brighton on the south coast of England. At the time it was the...
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terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash that occurred in 1861, five years before...
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structures on the route include the Ouse Valley Viaduct, the north portal of Clayton Tunnel and all three termini. The Brighton Main Line is a railway line in southern...
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Hassocks (section Clayton Stream)
Downs through Clayton Tunnel, which at 6,777 feet (2,066 m) is the longest of the five tunnels on the railway. The north entrance of the tunnel is distinguished...
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the site. The Bradford portal of Clayton Tunnel has also been infilled. Clayton tunnel lay immediately west of Clayton railway station. During the construction...
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The tunnel is thought actually to be the work of ice. The sun shines through the tunnel during two few minutes long periods every year. Clayton Tunnel rail...
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equipment, design and build, tunnelling, mining, metro, mainline and shunter locomotives. Clayton Equipment Ltd was preceded by Clayton Wagons Ltd., a subsidiary...
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terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel rail crash that occurred in 1861, five years...
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Haywards Heath and London Bridge in September 1841 via the just-completed Clayton Tunnel; and then in 1846 to the county town of Lewes to the east via the London...
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