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Shildon Tunnel
Shildon Tunnel in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Shildon Tunnel is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Shildon Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Tees Valley line between Shildon, and Bishop Auckland in County Durham, England. Although designed to have two tracks, the line is single-track through the tunnel and on to Bishop Auckland. It was opened out in 1842 by the Shildon Tunnel Company to avoid a railway incline over the 100-foot (30 m) hill that the tunnel bores through, and later sold outright to the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR). By at least 1880 rolling stock was wider and the tunnel could not accommodate two trains passing through at the same time; the two tracks were reduced to a single track in 1967 after many years of single-train occupancy.
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Background
History
Work on Shildon Tunnel which is 1,220 yard long, was started in April 1839 and the tunnel was opened out in January 1842. The tunnel route afforded the railway company an alternative route north through the magnesian limestone ridge to the north of Shildon, and meant that traffic did not need to traverse the inclines on the Black Boy Colliery branch which reached a height of 500 ft above Shildon. The original Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) route over the ridge into the River Gaunless valley was effected by the Brusselton Incline, west of Shildon, but the building of a tunnel through the 100 ft ridge just north of Shildon (known as the Shield), was an attractive prospect to the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6358, -1.6453
- Address
- Shildon, County Durham, England
- Established
- 1842
Sources
- wikidata: Q116695293 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Shildon Tunnel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Shildon Tunnel?
- Shildon Tunnel is in North-East England, United Kingdom.
- When was Shildon Tunnel built?
- Built or established in 1842.
- Who owns Shildon Tunnel?
- Shildon Tunnel is owned by Network Rail.