SIR – The story about Queensbury’s heritage centre and Queensbury tunnel  brings me to write to you as a real enthusiast of this superbly-constructed Victorian work of enterprise which had too many heavy works to be a preservation possibility.

Clayton tunnel was 1,055 yards long and Queensbury tunnel was a long one, one mile 741 yards. Hewenden viaduct is possibly one of the biggest ones ever built on a secondary railway. But Queensbury tunnel is no ordinary one, it’s more than 500ft underground at its centre and totally blocked up at its Holmfield end.

This wonderful railway is far too well constructed to be a humble bridle path.

Thornton viaduct is slightly smaller than Hewenden and there are some vast earthworks. Well Heads and Lees Moor tunnels are well remembered by me, at 78. Recollections flood back – Queensbury tunnel is long, dark and ghostly and it would be wonderful to walk through again. It’s a major prospect. The tunnel is straight but so long. The distant Holmfield portal was the size of a pin head.

Good luck to all in this venture.

K Abbott, Roydwood Terrace, Cullingworth