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Penmanshiel Tunnel is a now-disused railway tunnel near Grantshouse, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland. It was formerly part of the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Dunbar .
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 ...
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). 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 ...
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.
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.
By the time the tunnel was finished, having taken four years to build and a further three to complete the railway approaches to it, the project had crippled the finances of the Carmarthen to Cardigan Railway, which soon went into receivership. After the railway was closed to freight traffic in October 1973, and the track was removed two years ...