Devonshire Tunnel

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Devonshire Tunnel
Somerset
Devonshire Tunnel portal on opening day.jpg
Devonshire Tunnel West Portal
Location
Carrying: footpath
Location
Grid reference: ST746634
Location: 51°22’10"N, 2°21’56"W
Structure
Length: 447 yards
History
Opened 1874
Information
Owned by: Wessex Water

The Devonshire Tunnel is on the closed Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line, between Midford and Bath Green Park stations, below high ground and the southern suburbs of Bath in Somerset, 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.

The railway closed in 1966, but the tunnel now forms part of the Two Tunnels Greenway, named from its passing through the Devonshire Tunnel and the Combe Down Tunnel.

Gradient

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

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