Shotlock Tunnel Traditional Cache
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A cache near to the Settle-Carlisle line.
Shotlock tunnel, just before Aisgill Summit (the highest point on a main line railway in England at 1169 feet) on the famous Settle-Carlisle line was probably so named because it was dug through "Short Click" hill, and it is much easier to say "shotlock" than "short click", but why the hill was so named is a mystery. Possibly it looks like a click-hook? A public footpath starts at the tunnel, accessed via a stile, or through the gate, and the cache is not far away. Please note that it is dangerous and illegal to trespass on railway property. Searchers should not climb any wall. Some people wonder why this short tunnel of just over a hundred yards was necessary when a cutting would have been simpler, but the canny surveyors of the Midland Railway Company understood that it would be almost impossible create stable slopes on a cutting at this point. In fact many thousand of pounds have recently been spent in attempts at stabilising the slope just south of the tunnel.
A Google search for "shotlock tunnel" will find many pictures and videos of famous steam trains here.
" there is no need to move any stones in the Dry Stone wall to find the cache"
Additional Hints
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Haqre fgbarf arne jnyy
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