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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 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
Flooded railway tunnels forced the cancellation of all services on Saturday linking Britain to Europe, operator Eurostar said. Flooded tunnels force cancelation of Eurostar trains linking UK to Europe
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
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.
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau 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.
The Northolt Tunnel is a high-speed railway tunnel currently under construction in Greater London, England, and will upon completion carry the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway line under the West London suburbs. The twin-bore tunnels will run for 8.4 miles (13.5 km) between Old Oak Common and Ruislip.
Cowburn Tunnel takes the Hope Valley Line west out of Edale valley, to emerge near Chapel Milton, 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Chinley railway station. [9]Unusually, the tunnel is not built at a constant gradient: in fact, the summit of the line between Dore and Chinley lies within the tunnel, about a quarter of the way from the eastern end.