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Metrolink services set to be disrupted after cracks appear in Victorian tunnel
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The cracking of iron work in a Victorian railway tunnel will disrupt Metrolink trams in the coming months.
The Manchester Evening News reported in March how the town green in Whitefield, Bury, had been dug up by engineers. A routine inspection of the tunnel had found a fracture in an iron support beam.
Workmen dug a huge hole to get access to the damage and the plot was sealed off with fencing. READ MORE: But now the site has been completely surrounded by boarding and protected by 24-hour security.
Work has come to a halt after temporary measures were taken to make the tunnel, which dates from 1876, safe. Transport for Greater Manchester’s Head of Metrolink,
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