pulliptears
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I posted this on another forum, but was told that you guys are most helpful and might be able to answer my question 
My house is approximately half a mile from the entrance to a long rail tunnel, there is a ventilation stack just down the road.
Over the last few months I keep hearing a noise, usually around midnight that sounds like a heavy lorry going over a series of speed bumps and clanging. As its unlikely to be anything on the roads that regular, and the local steelworks (that does make one heck of a clatter) is miles away I'm wondering if its a goods train going through the tunnel.
Being non familiar with trains whatsoever, I wanted to know if there is any way of knowing what goes through a stretch of tunnel at a certain time, or am I just going to have to go down and look one night to satisfy my curiosity?
The line runs from Stoke through to Blythe Bridge and Beyond (I believe its an eastbound line). The Tunnel in question is "The Meir Tunnel"
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...,0.038581&z=15
The tunnel starts just before Longton High School if you look at the above in 'map view' and finishes somewhere after George Avenue.
Thanks
Jane
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My house is approximately half a mile from the entrance to a long rail tunnel, there is a ventilation stack just down the road.
Over the last few months I keep hearing a noise, usually around midnight that sounds like a heavy lorry going over a series of speed bumps and clanging. As its unlikely to be anything on the roads that regular, and the local steelworks (that does make one heck of a clatter) is miles away I'm wondering if its a goods train going through the tunnel.
Being non familiar with trains whatsoever, I wanted to know if there is any way of knowing what goes through a stretch of tunnel at a certain time, or am I just going to have to go down and look one night to satisfy my curiosity?
The line runs from Stoke through to Blythe Bridge and Beyond (I believe its an eastbound line). The Tunnel in question is "The Meir Tunnel"
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&so...,0.038581&z=15
The tunnel starts just before Longton High School if you look at the above in 'map view' and finishes somewhere after George Avenue.
Thanks
Jane
x