List of tunnels in the United Kingdom

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Tunnels in the United Kingdom is a link page for any road, railway, waterway or other form of tunnel, anywhere in the United Kingdom.

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[edit] England

[edit] Cheshire

  • Disley Tunnel, Railway (2 miles, 346 yards; 3535 m)
  • Prestbury Tunnel, Railway, near Macclesfield
  • Sutton Tunnel, Runcorn (1 mile, 125 yards)

[edit] Cornwall

[edit] Derbyshire

[edit] Devon

  • Whiteball Tunnel, Railway (1092 yards; 990m), broad gauge.

[edit] Dorset

  • Beaminster Tunnel, Road (A3066), approx 150m long

[edit] East Sussex

[edit] Essex

[edit] Gloucestershire

[edit] Greater Manchester

[edit] Kent

  • Channel tunnel (to France), Railway (31 miles, 635 yards; 50470 m)
  • Dartford Tunnel (1436 m), A282 road northbound (M25 connector)
  • Royal Harbour Tunnel, (800m) Ramsgate - Road
  • Shakespeare Tunnel, Railway, Dover

[edit] Lancashire

  • Sough Tunnel, Railway tunnel near Darwen (1 mile, 255 yards)

[edit] Leicestershire

  • Ashby de la Zouch Tunnel, Railway
  • Husbands Bosworth Tunnel, Grand Union Canal
  • Saddington Tunnel, Grand Union Canal

[edit] Lincolnshire

[edit] London

See also Tunnels underneath the River Thames.

[edit] Merseyside

[edit] Norfolk

[edit] Northamptonshire

[edit] Northumberland

[edit] North Yorkshire

  • Bramhope Tunnel, Railway (2 miles, 241 yards; 3439 m)
  • Prospect Tunnel, Railway. Disused

[edit] Nottinghamshire

[edit] Oxfordshire

[edit] Shropshire

[edit] Somerset

[edit] South Yorkshire

[edit] Staffordshire

[edit] Tyne and Wear

[edit] Warwickshire

  • Shrewley Tunnel, Grand Union Canal near Shrewley

[edit] West Yorkshire

  • Morley Tunnel, Railway (1 mile, 1609 yards; 3081 m)
  • Standedge Tunnels, Canal and railway (3 miles, 64 yards; 4887 m)
  • Summit Tunnel, Railway (1 mile, 1125 yards; 2638 m)

[edit] Wiltshire

[edit] West Midlands

[edit] West Sussex

[edit] Scotland

[edit] Glasgow

[edit] Scottish Highlands

  • Nevis Tunnel, part of Lochaber hydroelectric scheme

[edit] Wales

[edit] Monmouthshire

  • Severn Tunnel, Railway (4 miles, 628 yards; 7012 m)
  • Brynglas Tunnels, Newport (M4 motorway)
  • Gibraltar Tunnels, Monmouth
  • Bryn, Hengoed, (Railway, disused)
  • Clydach Tunnels, Abergavenny, (Railway, Disused)
  • Gaer, Newport (Railway, Active)
  • Gelli-felen Tunnels, Brynmawr (Railway, Disused)
  • Hillfield Tunnels, Newport (Railway, Active)
  • Monmouth, (Railway, Disused)
  • Pennar, Crumlin (Railway, Disused,239 yd)
  • Usk, Usk (Railway, Disused, 256 yd)

[edit] Glamorgan

  • Cwmcerwyn, Maesteg (Railway, Disused,1012 yd) Built by the Port Talbot and Docks Railway. Single track, curved.
  • Cymmer, Afan Valley (Railway, Disused,1591 yd) Built by the Great Western Railway. Single track. Straight. North end relandscaped
  • Gelli, Afan Valley (Railway, Disused) Built by the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway. Single track. Short
  • Gylfichi, Afan Valley (Railway, Disused,1019 yd) Built by the South Wales Mineral Railway. Single track. North end collapsed 1947.
  • Nottage, Porthcawl (Railway, Disused) Built by the Great Western Railway. Single track. Short, south portal relandscaped
  • Abernant / Merthyr (Railway, Disused, 2497 yd) Built by the Great Western Railway. Mainly single track, curved at ends.
  • Cefn-Glas, Abercynon (Railway, Disused, 703 yd) Built by the Great Western Railway. Single track
  • Garth, Taff's Well (Railway, Disused) Built by the Barry Docks Railway. Double track. Partly breached by operations at Garth Quarry.
  • Morlais, Merthyr Tydfil (Railway, Disused, 1040 yd) Built by the London and North Western Railway. Double track, curved at west end. 3 airshafts.
  • Quaker's Yard, Abercynon (Railway, demolished) Built by the Taff Vale Railway 1840. Demolished in 1857 when track dualled.
  • Rhondda, Treherbert (Railway, Disused, 3443 yd) Built by the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway. Single track
  • Tinworks, Treforest (Railway, not completed) Built by the Taff Vale Railway in 1907 to carry mineral line under exchange sidings of the Cardiff Railway at Treforest. Mineral line never completed.
  • Treforest (Railway, Disused, 1323 yd) Built by the Barry Docks Railway. Double track.
  • Union, Cardiff (Railway, Active, Beneath Student's Union building, Cardiff University.
  • Queensgate Tunnels, Cardiff

[edit] See also

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