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| x Rotherhithe Tunnel |
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The Rotherhithe Tunnel is a road tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in East London. It connects the Ratcliff district of Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets north of the river to Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark...
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| x Blackwall Tunnel |
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The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the London Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road. The northern portal lies just south of the East...
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| x Channel Tunnel |
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50.5 km | 75 m |
The Channel Tunnel (French: Le tunnel sous la Manche), known coloquially as the Chunnel, is a 50.5 km (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent near Dover in the UK with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais near Calais in northern France beneath...
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| x Woolwich foot tunnel |
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The Woolwich foot tunnel is a tunnel crossing under the River Thames in East London from Woolwich in the London Borough of Greenwich to North Woolwich in the London Borough of Newham. The tunnel offers pedestrians an alternative way to cross the...
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| x Williamson's tunnels |
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Williamson Tunnels consist of a labyrinth of tunnels in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England (grid reference SJ362902) which were built under the direction of the eccentric businessman Joseph Williamson between the early 1800s and 1840. They...
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| x Lincoln Tunnel |
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2.44 km | 6.55 m |
The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
The tunnel was designed by Ole Singstad. The project was funded by the New Deal's Public...
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| x Qanat |
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A qanāt (from Arabic: قناة) (Iran, Syria and Jordan), kārīz (or kārēz from Persian: كاريز (Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, derived from Persian: كاهریز), kahan (from Persian: کهن), khettara (Morocco); galeria (Spain); falaj (United...
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| x Eupalinian aqueduct |
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The Tunnel of Eupalinos or Eupalinian aqueduct (Modern Greek: Efpalinio orygma, Ευπαλίνειο όρυγμα) is a tunnel of 1,036 m length in Samos, Greece, built in the sixth century BC to serve as an aqueduct. The tunnel is the second known tunnel in...
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| x Sapperton Canal Tunnel |
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The Sapperton Canal Tunnel is a tunnel on the Thames and Severn Canal near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, England. It was the longest canal tunnel, and the longest tunnel of any kind, in England from 1789 to 1811.
The tunnel was opened on 20 April...
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| x Montgomery Bell Tunnel |
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The Montgomery Bell Tunnel, also known as the 'Patterson Forge Tunnel, in Cheatham County, Tennessee, is a 290-foot (88 m) long tunnel through limestone rock which was the first "full-scale" water diversion tunnel built in the United States. It is...
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| x Box Tunnel |
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Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England, between Bath and Chippenham, dug through the Box Hill. It was built for the original route of the Great Western Railway under the direction of the GWR's engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
The tunnel...
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| x City & South London Railway Tunnel | |||||
| x St. Clair Tunnel |
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The St. Clair Tunnel is the name for two separate rail tunnels which were built under the St. Clair River between Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan. It was the first full-size subaqueous tunnel built in North America. (By full-size it is...
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| x Cobble Hill Tunnel |
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The Cobble Hill Tunnel (popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. When open, it ran for about 2,517 feet (767 m) between Columbia...
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| x Park Avenue Tunnel |
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The Park Avenue Tunnel passes under Park Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan, USA, leading up towards Grand Central Terminal. It once carried the New York and Harlem Railroad and later that company's streetcar line and was called the...
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| x Metropolitan Line |
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The Metropolitan line is part of the London Underground. It is coloured in TfL's Corporate Magenta on the Tube map and in other branding. It was the first underground railway (or subway) in the world, opening on 10 January 1863 (however, parts of...
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| x Hammersmith & City Line |
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The Hammersmith & City line is a line of the London Underground, coloured salmon pink on the London Underground Map, running between Hammersmith in West London and Barking in East London. Formerly part of the Metropolitan line, part of it is the...
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| x Circle Line |
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The Circle line, coloured yellow on the tube map, is the eighth busiest line on the London Underground. It forms a loop line around the centre of London on the north side of the River Thames. Platforms are 120 metres long in the south and 130 metres...
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| x District Line |
The District line is a line of the London Underground, coloured green on the Tube map. It is a "sub-surface" line, running through the central area in shallow cut-and-cover tunnels. It is the busiest of the sub-surface lines and the third busiest...
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| x Col de Tende Road Tunnel |
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Col de Tende Road Tunnel is a 3182 metre long road tunnel running under Col de Tende between France and Italy. It was inaugurated in 1882 and it was until 1964 the longest road tunnel in the Alps. At its opening time it may have been one of world's...
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| x Holland Tunnel |
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The Holland Tunnel is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey at Interstate 78 on the mainland. Unusually for an American public works project, it is not named for a...
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| x Seikan Tunnel |
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The Seikan Tunnel (青函トンネル Seikan Tonneru or 青函隧道 Seikan Zuidō) is a 53.85 km (33.46 mi) railway tunnel in Japan, with a 23.3-kilometre (14.5 mi) long portion under the seabed. It is the longest undersea tunnel in the world, although the Channel...
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| x Lötschberg Base Tunnel |
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The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (LBT) is a 34.577 km (21.485 mi) or 34,577 m (113,442 ft) long new railway tunnel on the BLS Lötschbergbahn's Lötschberg Line cutting through the Alps of Switzerland some 400 m (1,312 ft) below the existing Lötschberg...
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| x Lærdalstunnelen |
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Lærdal Tunnel (Norwegian: Lærdalstunnelen) is a 24,5 km (15,2 mi)-long road tunnel connecting Lærdal and Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane county in western Norway. Construction started in 1995 and was completed in 2000, thus succeeding the Gotthard Road...
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| x Zhongnanshan Tunnel |
Zhongnanshan Tunnel, or Qinling Zhongnanshan Tunnel (Chinese: 秦岭终南山公路隧道) in Shaanxi Province, China, is the longest two-tube road tunnel in the world. It is also the second longest road tunnel overall in the world, after the Lærdal Tunnel in Norway....
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| x Päijänne Water Tunnel |
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The Päijänne Water Tunnel (Finnish: Päijännetunneli), located in Southern Finland, is the world's second longest continuous rock tunnel (after the Delaware Aqueduct in the USA). It is 120 kilometers (75 miles) long and runs 30–100 meters under the...
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| x Fredhälls Tunnel | |||||
| x New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 |
New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 is the largest capital construction project in New York City's history and among the most complex engineering projects in the world today. It is being constructed by the New York City Department of Environmental...
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| x Tunnel and Reservoir Plan |
The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering project that aims to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area, and to reduce the...
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| x Moffat Tunnel |
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The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental Divide in north-central Colorado. The first railroad traffic passed through the tunnel in February 1928; and, it was named after Colorado railroad pioneer David...
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| x Fenghuoshan tunnel |
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The Fenghuoshan railway tunnel (simplified Chinese: 风火山隧道; traditional Chinese: 風火山隧道; pinyin: Fēnghuǒshān Suìdào) is the highest railway tunnel in the world. It is 1,338 metres long, and stands 4,905 meters above sea level. It is part of the...
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| x Sydney Harbour Tunnel |
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The Sydney Harbour Tunnel is a twin-tube road tunnel in Sydney, Australia. The tunnel was completed and opened to traffic in August 1992 to provide a second vehicular crossing of Sydney Harbour to alleviate congestion on the Sydney Harbour Bridge....
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| x Clyde Tunnel |
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The Clyde Tunnel is a crossing beneath the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The tunnels connect the districts of Whiteinch and Govan in the west of the city.
Efforts to improve the transport infrastructure of Glasgow post-World War II were hit by...
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| x Butterley Tunnel |
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2,712 km | 2.7 m |
Butterley Tunnel is a one and three quarter mile long canal tunnel on the Cromford Canal below Ripley, in Derbyshire, England, opened to traffic in 1794.
The tunnel was 2,966 yard (2712m) long, 9 ft (2.7 m) wide at water level, and 8 ft (2.4 m) from...
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| x Braunston Tunnel |
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Braunston Tunnel is situated on the Grand Union Canal just past Braunston, Northamptonshire, England.
Braunston Tunnel is 2042 yards in length. Built by Jessop and Barnes, the tunnel has no towpath and is 4.8m wide by 3.76m high.
The tunnel passes...
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| x Blisworth Tunnel |
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2.813 km |
Blisworth Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Grand Union Canal in Northamptonshire, England between the villages of Stoke Bruerne at the southern end and Blisworth at the northern end.
The northern end is about18 miles (29.0 km) from the northern end...
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| x Thames Tunnel |
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The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel, built beneath the River Thames in London, United Kingdom connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 feet (11 m) wide by 20 feet (6 m) high and is 1,300 feet (396 m) long, running at a depth of 75...
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| x Wapping Tunnel |
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Wapping or Edge Hill Tunnel in Liverpool, England, was constructed to enable goods services to operate between Liverpool docks and Manchester as part of the planned Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It was the first tunnel in the world to be bored...
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| x Kilsby Tunnel |
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The Kilsby Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the West Coast Main Line railway in England. It was designed and engineered by Robert Stephenson.
The tunnel is located near the village of Kilsby in Northamptonshire roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Rugby...
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| x Grosmont Horse Tunnel | |||||
| x Bramhope Tunnel | |||||
| x Shugborough Tunnel | |||||
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| x Sevenoaks Tunnel | |||||
| x Severn Tunnel |
The Severn Tunnel (Welsh: Twnnel Hafren) is a railway tunnel in the United Kingdom, linking South Gloucestershire in the west of England to Monmouthshire in south Wales under the estuary of the River Severn.
The tunnel was built by the Great Western...
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| x Queensway Tunnel |
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The Queensway Tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, in the north west of England, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. It is often called the Birkenhead Tunnel to specify that it serves Birkenhead as opposed to the Kingsway Tunnel, an...
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| x Bruce Tunnel |
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The Bruce Tunnel (grid reference SU2358063230) is on the summit pound of the Kennet and Avon Canal between Wootton Top Lock and Crofton Locks in Wiltshire, England.
This is the only tunnel on the canal and is 502 yards (459 m). It is named after...
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| x Dudley Tunnel |
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Dudley Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Dudley Canal Line No 1, England. At about 3,172 yards (2,900.5 m) long, it is now the second longest canal tunnel on the UK canal network today. (Standedge Tunnel is the longest, at 5,456 yards (4,989.0 m), and...
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| x Lapal Tunnel |
The Lapal Tunnel (old spelling Lappal Tunnel) is a disused 3,470-metre (11,385 ft) canal tunnel on the five mile dry section of the Dudley No. 2 Canal in the West Midlands, England.
The narrow brick-lined tunnel, built in 1798 by William Underhill,...
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| x Lord Ward's Tunnel | |||||
| x Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal |
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Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal, in the English West Midlands, is part of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, (BCN). It was constructed at a 453 ft elevation, the Wednesbury or Birmingham level; it has no locks. The total length of the branch canal is 2...
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| x Drakehole Tunnel | |||||
| x Norwood Tunnel |
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Norwood Tunnel was a 2884 yard (2633 m) long, 9 feet 3 inch wide and 12 feet high brick (3 million of them) lined canal tunnel on the line of the Chesterfield Canal with its Western Portal in Norwood, Derbyshire and its Eastern Portal in Kiveton,...
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