Devonshire Tunnel

Devonshire Tunnel

Devonshire Tunnel West Portal
Overview
Line Somerset and Dorset [Joint] Railway
Location c. 2.0 miles from Bath Green Park
OS grid reference ST 746 634
Operation
Opened 1874
Closed 1966 (railway)
Owner Wessex Water
Technical
Length 447 yards (409 m) approx.
No. of tracks Single
Grade mostly 1 in 50 (2%) ascending towards Midford (away from Bath) [1]

Devonshire Tunnel is on the now-closed Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway main line, between Midford and Bath Green Park railway station, below high ground and the southern suburbs of Bath, England, emerging below the northern slopes of Combe Down village. It opened in 1874 and was named after the road called Devonshire Buildings which lie immediately above the tunnel.

It now forms one of the eponymous tunnels in the Two Tunnels Greenway.

Gradient

The tunnel had a gradient of 1 in 50,[1] on a line where the ruling gradient was also 1 in 50.

References

  1. 1 2 "Image gradient profile". Two Tunnels Shared Path. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

Coordinates: 51°22′10″N 2°21′56″W / 51.3695°N 2.3655°W / 51.3695; -2.3655


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