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Ghosts, culverts and coal: the forgotten Colinton Tunnel deep in Monaro bushland
The Canberra Times
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4 months ago
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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Welcome to the Collington Tunnel. It's 161 meters long, opened way back in 1889 and closed 101 years
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later. But the construction is quite ornate for quite a small tunnel. Over half a million bricks
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manufactured just a few kilometers away in Bredbo were used in the construction of this tunnel.
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Walking along the old rail track here you find all sorts of objects. We've found a chunk of coal,
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no doubt from the steam train days, and just here near the entrance to the tunnel
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an old shovel. Who knows how long that's been here?
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It might be a disused tunnel but there are still signs that there are creatures living in here.
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Like many railway tunnels there is a spooky story relating to this one. It dates back to the 1890s
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when apparently a man was riding his horse through here in the middle of the night. They got stuck,
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just as the train came through both the man and the horse were killed instantly. It's possibly
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folklore because I can't find any record of this in any local newspapers. However, some locals say
01:37
if you venture up here in the middle of the night you might encounter his ghost.
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Lucky it's daytime. I'm getting out of here.
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That's all.
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There's a lot of things that might take out of here.
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More than that you'll, as you know, are a part of the lake.
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You guys are living now in this fight.
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You have a great day.
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You have to live now in this country.
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You are in this country.
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You are living now in this country.
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You are living now.
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You are living now.
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A dream and why you live now in this country is your choice.
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You are living now in this country.
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What do you live now?
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