Alderton Tunnel
The Alderton Tunnel sits on the South Wales Main Line on a stretch of line between Swindon and Bristol Parkway. It is 506 yards long. It was opened on 1 January 1903 along with the line between Wootton Bassett and Badminton, that being the first section of the South Wales & Bristol Direct Line of the Great Western Railway.[1]
Building of the tunnel commenced at least two years before 1903 as the rise in railway workers boarding in Alderton village can be seen in the 1901 UK Census.
References
- ↑ MacDermot, E.T. (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. II: 1863-1921. Paddington: Great Western Railway. p. 425. OCLC 55853736.