This single-track tunnel through the Wolds is just over a mile long and opened in 1853. It had a chequered history. On 21st August 1866, a labourer fell from a carriage as it headed south through the tunnel. He survived, albeit with serious injuries to his face, head and elbow. After receiving pain relief in Malton, he was taken to Driffield Cottage Hospital where doctors amputated his arm. And a guard smashed his head on a bridge at the northern end whilst riding on the tender. Burdale was bricked up in 1961 and since then parts of its roof have collapsed.