Hunsbury Hill Tunnel

Hunsbury Hill Tunnel is a railway tunnel on the Northampton Loop Line of the West Coast Main Line. The tunnel runs in a straight line from the Briar Hill district of the town of Northampton (north portal: 52°13′20″N 0°54′56″W), England about north by east to the East Hunsbury district south of the town (south portal: 52°12′47″N 0°55′10″W). The tunnel has a single bore with twin tracks and is 1,152 yards (1,053 m) long.[1] It is about 1 mile south of Northampton railway station and the next station south is Wolverton. The tunnel opened together with the rest of the loop line in 1881.[2]

Southbound unit entering north portal of Hunsbury Hill Tunnel
Northampton loop
Rugby
Rugby Parkway
(proposed)
Kilsby and Crick
Daventry South Junction
Crick Tunnel
Watford Lodge Tunnel
Long Buckby
Althorp Park
Church Brampton
Northampton
Blisworth
Roade
Castlethorpe
Wolverton
Milton Keynes Central

References

  1. Phil Deaves web site
  2. History of the Railways of Northamptonshire, P. Butler, 2006 ISBN 978-1-85794-281-1
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