Devonshire Tunnel Explained

Devonshire Tunnel
Line:Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
Location: 2.0 miles from
Os Grid Ref:ST 746 634
Opened:1874
Closed:1966 (railway)
Owner:Wessex Water
Length: approx.
Notrack:Single
Grade:mostly 1 in 50 (2%) ascending towards Midford (away from Bath)[1]

Devonshire Tunnel is on the closed Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line, between Midford and Bath Green Park railway stations, 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, on a line where the ruling gradient was also 1 in 50.

References

51.3695°N -2.3655°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Image gradient profile . Two Tunnels Shared Path . 12 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140813022335/http://www.twotunnels.org.uk/image_gradient_profile.html . 13 August 2014 .