Blissworth Tunnel

The morning arrived when we were to navigate Blissworth Tunnel but it wasn't Alex who was there to meet us at 8:00am. Unfortunately we didn't get to know the name of the CaRT worker who turned up but he was equally as chatty and helpful as Alex. It was a cool morning and there was a mist inside the tunnel and so we were not able to see the light at the end of the tunnel until we were well into it.

Patiently waiting for the all clear.

Tunnel entrance North.

Blissworth Tunnel is 3076 yards long. That's about one and three quarter miles so it took us about half and hour before emerging from the dark, dank atmosphere. It was extremely wet and one of the vertical air vents in the roof of the arch was more like a waterfall, which I had no choice but to cruise right through.

Light at the end of the tunnel.

It took a great deal of concentration on my part to avoid scraping the walls and was very glad to stop and devour the full english breakfast that Sue conjured up soon after we were back in fresh air and moored up.