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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 ...
The table below lists many of the tunnels under the River Thames in and near London, which, thanks largely to its underlying bed of clay, is one of the most tunnelled cities in the world. The tunnels are used for road vehicles, pedestrians, Underground and railway lines and utilities.
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.
Only the 1894 rail tunnel is in use but all three rail tunnels are maintained. [4] In 1966, the 1848 single-track rail tunnel was closed followed by the 1871 single-track tunnel in 1970. The 1848 tunnel provides an emergency escape route for the other tunnels and has been made accessible to road vehicles such as fire engines and ambulances . [ 20 ]
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46 km (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
When completed, Woodhead 1 was one of the world's longest railway tunnels at 3 miles 13 yards (4,840 m). It was the first trans-Pennine railway tunnel to be built, preceding the Standedge and Totley Tunnels which are slightly longer. The tunnel had cost roughly £200,000 (equivalent to £24,990,000 in 2023) [2] to build. The human cost was high ...
The Kilsby Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the West Coast Main Line in England, near the village of Kilsby in Northamptonshire, roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Rugby. It is 2,423 yards (2,216 m) long. The Kilsby Tunnel was designed and engineered by Robert Stephenson for the London & Birmingham Railway (L&BR). It was constructed by ...