VIRTUAL TOUR OF Engine Vein

This is a picture of the current entrance that was originally built in 1982 and then enlarged in the 1990s. You are now in the entrance passage which was probably tunnelled in the nineteenth century to provide an easier route into the mine avoiding the open cutting. Apart from a branch on the left (looking in) which used to connect to the mine further down, there is only one way to go - in which is westwards. Of course, you could also go out again to the east.