'We have lost the self-improving urge of the Victorians to build town halls that display local pride or law courts that reinforce the majesty of British justice' | Writes Clive Aslet
Congratulations to the Rhondda Tunnel Society. This doughty group of campaigners was formed in 2014 with the modest objective of relocating a carved stone near the entrance of a railway tunnel in the Welsh valleys but soon found that the world expected more of it than that. Now the tunnel, opened in 1890 and nearly two miles long, is on the way to becoming the longest underground cycle path in Europe.
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