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The west portal. Box Tunnel passes through Box Hill on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) between Bath and Chippenham.The 1.83-mile (2.95 km) tunnel was the world's longest railway tunnel when it was completed in 1841.
In the 1730s and 1740s a secret tunnel between The Olde Bell and the nearby The Mermaid Inn in Rye, East Sussex was used by the Hawkhurst Gang for smuggling. [6] [7] In 1789, at the outset of what would become the French Revolution, angry demonstrators in Paris marched in the streets and stormed the Bastille. The revolution spread to smaller ...
Ft. McArthur Tunnel Complex: an abandoned World War II network connecting fortifications in San Pedro, CA. [10] The Lawson Adit is a tunnel constructed underneath UC Berkeley into the Berkeley Hills in the early 1900s for student mining research. [11] US Dept. of Defense Tunnel Warfare Center, China Lake [12] [13]
Secret tunnels from Playboy Mansion to Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson's houses uncovered, magazine claims
Others, however, choose to expand in different, more uncommon ways, like this woman who's DIYing a secret tunnel system underneath her home. And no, it is not an elaborate Halloween decoration in ...
Central Pacific Railroad, Clipper Gap Tunnel Central Pacific Transcontinental Railroad, Tunnel 'O' Abandoned 1873 1984 1997 Union Pacific Railroad: Clipper Gap: Placer: CA-86: Big Oak Flat Road Tunnel No. 1 Extant 1937 1991
News of a brawl between police and worshippers on Monday over a secret underground tunnel found connected to a historic Brooklyn synagogue was picked up quickly on social media, with posts ...
An example exists of an escape tunnel built in Covenanting times at Newholm in Dolphinton parish, Lanarkshire. This tunnel was built by Major Joseph Learmont, a leading member of the Covenanter cause who fought at Rullion Green and Bothwell Bridge. He hid within the 40 yard long stone lined tunnel when necessary and evaded capture for 16 years ...