The woodhead Tunnel provided a vital link for Sheffield to the rest of the country for over 100 years. but why was is construction so problematic? Why did drivers call the tunnel the hell holes and how the treatment of the workers sparked a parliamentary enquiry.
Today we answer those questions as we look at the Woodhead Tunnel and how one engineer manages something that the lord of the railways Stephenson said could never be done and if it was done, he would eat a engine!