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The first station was opened by the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (C&GWU) on 23 October 1847, as Cheltenham. [1] It was the terminus of the final section of that company's line from a junction with the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Swindon, which had opened in stages: to Kemble (and Cirencester) on 31 May 1841; to Gloucester on 12 May 1845, and finally to Cheltenham on 23 October ...
St James station is notable for the abandoned tunnels connected to the station. The Australian Railway Historical Society , with the approval of the State Rail Authority , has given tours of the tunnels, but many people have visited the tunnels by entering along the subway tracks.
Other secret passages have sometimes been added after initial building. Secret tunnels have often been created as escape routes from prisons or prisoner-of-war camps, where they are known as escape tunnels. They typically require a hidden opening or door, and may involve other deceptive construction techniques, such as the creation of a false wall.
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Cheltenham Spa St. James railway station, formerly in Cheltenham, England; Paisley St James railway station in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland; Liverpool St James railway station, England, a disused station in Liverpool; St James Metro station, on the Tyne and Wear Metro in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels, some 40 meters below Chancery Lane tube station in High Holborn, were built in the 1940s to shelter Londoners from the Blitz bombing campaign during World War II.
A tunnel is said to run from King's College Chapel to Granchester Manor, Cambridge, passing under the river Cam. [15] A tunnel is said to run from Newbury Town Hall to St Nicolas Church. This belief may have started because there are east-west flowing brick Victorian service tunnels running from roughly the Newbury arcade towards this church ...