Our visit to Leicestershire started early and we arrived in Glenfield at 10 am where volunteers from Leicester Industrial History Society were waiting to welcome us and walk us part way through the Glenfield tunnel. The tunnel is one of the oldest in the country and at roughly one mile long was one of the longest at the time.
The tunnel was dark, damp and rough underfoot but we got the feel what it might be like with the volunteers playing a recording made when one of the last steam trains went through the tunnel back in the 1960s.
After the tunnel walk we stopped for lunch at the Railway Inn where our orders had been left when we first arrived. Unfortunately our lunches were running late (typical railway) and sadly Brian had to chase them up on more than one occasion to get food on our tables.
Lunch out of the way we were back on the coach and on to Swannington village to walk the incline and see where the engine house used to stand. Another short coach journey to finish our visit at Hough windmill and coal workings around the village. Thank you Brian for organising another fascinating visit.
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