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From crumbling sleepers to ghost stories, Tim the Yowie Man treks to the long-abandoned Colinton Tunnel on the Monaro Plains uncovering rail relics, coal fragments and a curious tale involving a man and his horse.
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00:00Welcome to the Collington Tunnel. It's 161 meters long, opened way back in 1889 and closed 101 years
00:13later. But the construction is quite ornate for quite a small tunnel. Over half a million bricks
00:21manufactured just a few kilometers away in Bredbo were used in the construction of this tunnel.
00:26Walking along the old rail track here you find all sorts of objects. We've found a chunk of coal,
00:36no doubt from the steam train days, and just here near the entrance to the tunnel
00:40an old shovel. Who knows how long that's been here?
00:49It might be a disused tunnel but there are still signs that there are creatures living in here.
00:56Like many railway tunnels there is a spooky story relating to this one. It dates back to the 1890s
01:17when apparently a man was riding his horse through here in the middle of the night. They got stuck,
01:23just as the train came through both the man and the horse were killed instantly. It's possibly
01:30folklore because I can't find any record of this in any local newspapers. However, some locals say
01:37if you venture up here in the middle of the night you might encounter his ghost.
01:42Lucky it's daytime. I'm getting out of here.
01:59That's all.
02:05There's a lot of things that might take out of here.
02:07More than that you'll, as you know, are a part of the lake.
02:09You guys are living now in this fight.
02:10You have a great day.
02:11You have to live now in this country.
02:13You are in this country.
02:14You are living now in this country.
02:15You are living now.
02:17You are living now.
02:18A dream and why you live now in this country is your choice.
02:21You are living now in this country.
02:23What do you live now?
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