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A couple of trips ago that I did to Torpedo yard, I was standing besides the cliff face where this tunnel was meant to be, pondering over the incredible camouflage job that had obviously been done, when I happened to look down, and what I saw (that I had overlooked on previous visits) absolutely "blew me away!":

There was a row of 'indents' in the bitumen that looked very obviously like a row of sunken railway sleepers! These went from the cliff face to as far as the new bitumen. After thinking about this for a while, I came to the conclusion that what had happened is that the original sleepers had been tar sealed over, and in time they had rotted away allowing the bitumen to sink into the void of where they once were.

We measured these 'sleepers' up for their width and spacings, and compared them with the known measurements of other sleeper locations in the Torpedo Bay Yard and they were on par.

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