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This is a route-map template for the Severn Valley Railway, a UK preserved heritage railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The tunnel is 47.5 m (156 ft) deep, with a diameter of 3.05 m (10 ft) and a total length of 3,678 m (2.285 mi). [10] The tunnel carries two 400 kV circuits, each with three cables. [11] The tunnel is owned by National Grid. The image to the right shows the cables on pylons entering the Aust (eastern) end of the tunnel before going underground.
The tunnel is 7,008 m (4.355 mi) long, although only 3,621 m (2.250 mi) of its length are under the river. It was the longest underwater tunnel in the world until 1987—when Japan’s Seikan Tunnel linking the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido took the title—and, for more than 100 years, it was the longest mainline railway tunnel within the UK.
The Severn Valley Railway was built between 1858 and 1862, and linked Hartlebury, near Droitwich Spa, with Shrewsbury, a distance of 40 miles (64 km).Important stations on the line were Stourport-on-Severn, Bewdley, and Arley within Worcestershire; and Highley, Hampton Loade, Bridgnorth, Coalport, Ironbridge and Broseley, Buildwas, Cressage, and Berrington in Shropshire.
Bewdley Railway Station has been used as a location for a number of television and cinema productions. These include the 1992 film Howards End , the 2007 film Woes of the Departed , and, as "Musborough Junction" station, the opening scenes of the 1984 BBC Television adaptation of the John Masefield novel The Box of Delights (keen-eyed viewers ...
Eysturoy Tunnel, which opened in 2020, took four years to complete. It dramatically cut the travel time between the Faroe Islands capital on the island of Streymoy and neighboring Eysturoy island.
A tunnel is an underground passageway with no defined minimum length, though it may be considered to be at least twice as long as wide. Some government bodies define a tunnel as 150 metres (0.093 mi) in length or longer. [1] A tunnel may be for pedestrians or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or for ...
Severn Tunnel Junction railway station (Welsh: Cyffordd Twnnel Hafren) is a minor station on the western side of the Severn Tunnel in the village of Rogiet, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is 123.5 miles (198.8 km) from London Paddington and lies at the junction of the South Wales Main Line from London and the Gloucester to Newport Line .