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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 ...
This list is for railway lines across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are now abandoned, closed, dismantled or disused. Within the United Kingdom, examples exist of opened railways which formerly constituted cross-country main trunk lines as well as many more which served more local, or exclusively industrial, needs.
Thurgoland Tunnel is a double-bore abandoned railway tunnel between Penistone and Wortley, [1] South Yorkshire, England. Its total length is 924 feet (282 m). The original tunnel, a single bore carrying two tracks, was opened in 1845 on the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway between Manchester Store Street and Sheffield.
An abandoned branch of the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway, England Example of conversion of part of an abandoned railway line to a regenerated habitat. An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have ...
Fritchley Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel at Fritchley in Derbyshire, England, which is believed to be the oldest surviving example in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The tunnel was constructed in 1793 by Benjamin Outram as part of the Butterley Gangroad , altered in the 1840s, and remained in use until the railway closed in 1933.
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Sandsend Tunnel, south entrance. Sandsend Tunnel is a tunnel on the former Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway that was opened in 1883 and closed in 1958. The rail line that ran through it was originally intended to travel along the top of the cliffs, [1] [2] however some of the cliff fell into the sea whilst construction was suspended so the NER constructed two tunnels, the ...
Northern end. Pencader Tunnel is an abandoned railway tunnel on the old trackbed of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth main line in south-west Wales.It was originally bored for the Llanpumsaint-Pencader section of the Carmarthen & Cardigan (C&C) Railway.