List of tunnels in Australia

This is a list of tunnels in Australia which includes any road, railway, waterway or other form of tunnel, anywhere in the country.

Contents

1 New South Wales
2 Queensland
3 South Australia
4 Victoria
5 Western Australia
6 Tasmania
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

New South Wales

Airport Tunnel on General Holmes Drive (Mascot, road, 550m)
Ardglen Tunnel (rail)
Border Tunnel (rail)
Clarence Tunnel (rail)
Cross City Tunnel (Sydney, road)
Cudgen Road Tunnel (Tweed Valley, road)
Eastern Distributor Tunnel (Sydney, road)
Glenbrook Tunnel (rail)
M2 Lane Cove Tunnel (Sydney, road)
Merewether Bluff (rail, disused, Australia's first 2 railway tunnels, 1861 & 1862, privately operated)^[1]
M5 East Tunnel (Sydney, road)
Old Main Tunnel (Picton, rail, 181 metres, disused, 1-Mar-1867 until 13-Jul-1919)^[2]
St Helena Tunnel
Sydney Harbour Tunnel (road)
Sydney underground railways
- City Circle (rail)
- Airport & East Hills Railway Line (rail, 10 km long)
Tugun Bypass Tunnel (Tweed Heads, road)
Woy Woy Tunnel (rail, opened 15 August 1887)

Queensland

Airport Link (Brisbane, road) - under construction
Canungra Tramway Tunnel (Gold Coast, heritage) - c.1900 ^[3]
Cross River Rail (Brisbane, rail) - proposed
Boggo Road Busway (bus)
Boolboonda Tunnel ^[4]
Clem Jones Tunnel (Brisbane, road)
Inner City Bypass (Brisbane, road)
Legacy Way (Brisbane, road) - under construction
Nundah Bypass (Nundah, road)
Victoria Tunnel (rail)
Leopard Street Tunnel (Brisbane. stormwater) - c.1890

South Australia

Heysen Tunnels on the Adelaide-Crafers Highway
Sleeps Hill Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Former Sleeps Hill Tunnels Main South Line (rail)
Shepherds Hill Road Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Former Coromandel Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Former Pinera Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Belair National Park Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Long Gully Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Upper Sturt Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Yantaringa Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Murray Bridge Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
Clarendon Weir to Happy Valley Reservoir Tunnels (water)
Torrens Gorge Tunnel (water)
Dowds Hill Tunnel Peterborough - Broken Hill railway (rail)
Tod River Reservoir works (water)

Victoria

City Loop Tunnels (Melbourne, rail tunnels)
Burnley Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the CityLink road network)
Domain Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the CityLink road network)
Melba Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the EastLink road network)
Mullum Mullum Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the EastLink road network)
Westgate Tunnel (Melbourne, a proposed tunnel to reduce congestion on the Westgate Bridge)

See also: Railway Tunnels in Victoria, Australia

Western Australia

Canning Tunnel (water)
Northbridge Tunnel (Perth, road)
Swan View Tunnel (Perth, rail, closed)
William Street Tunnel (Perth, rail)
Wungong Tunnel (water)

Tasmania

Rhyndaston Tunnel (rail)

See also

List of tunnels by location

References

^ Glenrock State Conservation Area, Plan of Management, Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, New South Wales Government, September 2010, p.28 (accessed 13 July 2011)
^ Old Main Tunnel, Main South Line, Nswrail.net (accessed 13 July 2011)
^ "Lahey's Canungra Tramway Tunnel". CHIMS. Department of Environment and Resource Management. http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/chims/placeDetail.html?siteId=19652. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
^ Alex Brown (2003-05-07). "Gin Gin explodes out of the blocks for its 9.93 seconds of fame". The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/06/1051987709572.html. Retrieved 2009-07-04.

External links

Australasian Tunnelling Society