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The Bromford tunnel is a high-speed railway tunnel under construction in North Warwickshire and Birmingham, England, and will serve to bring the High Speed 2 rail line into Birmingham upon completion. The 5.6 km (3.5 miles) twin-bore tunnels will be situated between Water Orton and Washwood Heath.
Ffestiniog Tunnel: Railway: 3,407: 3726: UK's longest single-track tunnel, in use on the Conwy Valley Line: 1879 Monmouthshire & Gloucestershire: Severn Tunnel: Railway: 7,012: 7668: Longest mainline tunnel in the UK until 2007 when tunnels on High Speed 1 opened: 1886 Monmouthshire: Gibraltar Tunnel: Road: 185: 202: Twin bore on A40 dual ...
Sandsend Tunnel; Sapperton Railway Tunnel; Severn Tunnel; Severn tunnel (1810) Shakespeare Tunnel; Shugborough Tunnel; Singleton and Cocking Tunnels; Snow Hill tunnel (Birmingham) Somerton Tunnel; Southampton Tunnel; Spinkhill Tunnel; Stepney Green cavern; Stoke Tunnel (Ipswich) Stoke Tunnel (Lincolnshire) Stowe Hill Tunnel; Sugar Loaf Tunnel
Railway tunnels in England (6 C, 102 P) S. Railway tunnels in Scotland (2 P) Railway stations located underground in the United Kingdom (2 C, 46 P) W.
Each carried a pair of tracks throughout, the North tunnel was the shortest at 130 yards, the Middle was 180 yards and the South tunnel, the longest, was 1,766 yards. [5] The North tunnel was constructed using the cut-and-cover technique, unlike the other two bores. [4] During 1848, construction of the Harecastle railway tunnels was completed. [2]
The world's first underground tube railway. A rail tunnel for 3 months only, then a foot tunnel. Currently carries pipes and fibre-optic lines. Northern Line (Bank branch) tunnels Railway tunnel: London Bridge tube station, Bank and Monument stations: 1900: Northern line (Bank branch) City & South London Railway tunnels Railway tunnel
By way of comparison, the 50-kilometer (31-mile) Channel Tunnel linking England and France, completed in 1993, cost the equivalent of £12 billion ($13.6 billion) in today’s money.
Watford Tunnels are a pair of railway tunnels on the West Coast Main Line just north-west of Watford in Hertfordshire, Eastern England. The original was built in 1837 for the London and Birmingham Railway to the design of Robert Stephenson and is just over a mile (1.6 kilometres) long. When the line was widened in the 1870s, a second tunnel was ...