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| | Chapter 5. Bumpsticks |
 | | A man killed his brother at the Sapperton tunnel in 1787 when he dropped the muck he was winding out of the shaft. |
 | | The tunnel was eighteen inches out of centre and we worked there blowing the side off, on nights. |
 | | In the early '90S, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and small-pox outbreaks put part of the Dore and Chinley line into quarantine, particularly around the Totley tunnel where, in spite of the quick, pebble-rolling Derwent, drainage was bad and where, on top of everything else, they had a typhoid epidemic as well. |
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