First River Severn Rail Tunnel

United Kingdom / England / Severn Beach /
 tunnel, invisible
The tunnel was built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) between 1873 and 1886, it is 4 miles 624 yd (7,008 m) long, although only 2¼ miles (3.62 km) of the tunnel are actually under the river. For well over 100 years it was the longest mainline railway tunnel within the UK, until the two major High Speed 1 tunnels (London East and West) were opened in 2007 as part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Tunnel
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Coordinates:   51°34'36"N   2°41'29"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago