"Here, have a hard-hat," says Ken Burgin, "Not that it'll do you any good if the tunnel falls in, mind you..."rnStaring into the dank, dark maw of what was once the world's longest canal tunnel I can see his point. The entrance to the Sapperton Tunnel looks far from inviting right now, but in a few years this amazing 3817-yard piece of 18th century engineering might well be open to public trip boats. Before we step aboard a small electric boatrnto explore the tunnel as part of preparations for the possible trip-boat operation into the eastern section, Ken Burgin, Chief Executive of the Cotswold Canals Trust, gives us a safety brief in the car park of the Tunnel House Inn, one-time haunt of the navvies who dug their way through the Cotswold hills.
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