BBC News reports on the Summit Tunnel Disaster

[@robertbaldwin177]

How that tunnel survived and remains in service to this day is testiment to it's Victorian engineering. Stumbled across the Summit Tunnel Fire whilst reading a local walking guide, thanks for sharing.

[@SirNigelGresley4498]

"I stake my reputation and my head that this tunnel shall never fail so as to endanger human life" - George Stephenson, engineer in charge of building Summit Tunnel

[@BossySwan]

@@SirNigelGresley4498Stephenson and Brunel. Two legends.

[@lawrencecody9316]

I recall seeing photographs of the aftermath of this, and bogies were welded to the rails,and the tunnel walls looked like melted plastic, with the intense heat..this was a bad time for oil trains as a collision at Eccles occured on the 4th Dec,which resulted in fatailites as an express hit a tank train stood at a signal,engulfing the loco,and first coach in flames..and on Nov 13th a tanker derailed on Stockport Viaduct,spilling out 100s of tons of crude oil...

[@Fcutdlady]

Brave train drivers who got the locomotive and 3 undamaged petrol tanks out. They didn't have the fire training the fire brigade have

[@ChangesOneTim]

Very fortunate indeed that no train was approaching, or in, the tunnel at the time. Her Majesty's Inspector Of Railways recommended more and better systems to detect hot/ seized axle bearings.

[@tonyhancock3912]

That fire chief saved lives that day. Could have been a lot worse if he hadn't evacuated the tunnel when he did

[@codprawn]

Those were the days when the firemen really were heros. No health and safety rules back then.

[@hendog3894]

So they don't do anything heroic anymore ? Stupid comment

[@richardwillson101]

Yeah, such a shame that more firefighters don't get killed on the job today, eh? Moron.

[@BossySwan]

Moira Stuart

[@greigs9384]

White fronted Dennis?

[@philreed9460]

Ex - West Riding FB Dennis F46. They had some white appliances in the early 1970s