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.
New South Wales
- Airport Tunnel on General Holmes Drive (Mascot, road, 550m)
- Ardglen Tunnel (rail)
- Belmore Tunnel (Zig Zag rail)
- Border Tunnel (rail) (NSW-QLD)
- Bethungra Spiral (rail) (2 tunnels)
- Carcoar Tunnel (rail Blayney-Domondrille line)
- Clarence Tunnel (Zig Zag rail)
- Boronia Tunnels ( 1-4 in use, 5 deviated; double track)
- Clarence Tunnel (rail) (deviated)
- Cougal Spiral (rail) (2 tunnels)
- Cross City Tunnel (Sydney, road)
- Cudgen Road Tunnel (Tweed Valley, road)
- Dorrigo railway line tunnels
- Eastern Distributor Tunnel (Sydney, road)
- Fernleigh Tunnel (former rail, now rail trail-cycleway)
- Glenbrook Tunnel
- Old Glenbrook Tunnel (rail) (deviated)
- M2 Lane Cove Tunnel (Sydney, road)
- Main North Line
- Boronia
- Long Island
- Mullet Creek
- Woy Woy
- Tickhole
- Coffs Harbour has 5
- Merewether Bluff (rail, disused, Australia's first 2 railway tunnels, 1861 & 1862, privately operated)[1]
- M5 East Tunnel (Sydney, road)
- New Main Tunnel (Picton)
- Old Main Tunnel (Picton, rail, 181 metres, disused, 1-Mar-1867 until 13-Jul-1919)[2]
- St Helena Tunnel (road) (expected completion in 2015)
- Sydney Harbour Tunnel (road)
- Sydney underground railways
- City Circle (rail)
- Airport railway line (rail, 10 km long)
- Eastern Suburbs railway line (rail)
- Epping to Chatswood railway line (rail)
- North West Rail Link (under construction, open 2019) (Bella vista-Epping)
- Ten Tunnels Deviation 1910 (replaced Zig Zag—rail)
- Tugun Bypass Tunnel (Tweed Heads, road)
- Woy Woy Tunnel (rail, opened 15 August 1887) (double track)
Queensland
- Airport Link (Brisbane, road) - Australia's longest road tunnel at 6.7 km
- Canungra Tramway Tunnel (Gold Coast, heritage) - c.1900 [3]
- Cross River Rail (Brisbane, rail) - proposed
- Boggo Road Busway (Brisbane, bus)
- Boolboonda Tunnel [4] (Mount Perry, rail heritage)
- Clem Jones Tunnel (Brisbane, road)
- Inner City Bypass (Brisbane, road)
- Legacy Way (Brisbane, road) - under construction
- Leopard Street Tunnel (Brisbane, stormwater) - c.1890
- Muntapa rail tunnel (Cooyar, rail heritage)
- Nundah Bypass (Nundah, road)
- Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (Toowoomba, road) - proposed
- Tugun Bypass tunnel (Gold Coast, road)
- Victoria Tunnel (Grandchester, rail)
- [Many peaks - Monto loop line 6 tunnels (disused railway line)
South Australia
Heysen Tunnel in South Australia, 2006
- Heysen Tunnels on the South Eastern Freeway
- 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)
Western Australia
Northbridge Tunnel in Western Australia, 2005
- 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
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. 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. Retrieved 2009-07-04.