Last update 18 November 2009
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Phil Deaves, Swindon, Wiltshire
I am always grateful for additional information, whether entirely new records (particularly historical records), or information to fill in gaps or correct errors, via the email address above. Thank you.
Often a vast engineering feature, and usually a big project at the time of construction, railway tunnels are a source of fascination to many. Most tunnels exist to give the railway the flattest route possible whilst getting it from one side of a feature (usually a hill) to the other. Other tunnels exist purely to hide the railway from land owners. This listing attempts to catalogue all British and Irish tunnels, giving their lengths where known. Please note that lengths quoted can vary depending on measurement source: alternatives are given as appropriate. Railway company names are abbreviated: these are as supplied by a correspondent and should be self explanatory or easily determined from the context combined with an internet search.
Thanks to a vast amount of data, the tunnel listing is split across multiple pages: please select from the list below.
Introduction Page 1 (A-F) Page 2 (G-P) Page 3 (Q-Z)
Mike Ball for the original research that started this page; Chris Winstanley, Neil Hallett, Alan Roberts, Peter Gibbons, Phill Davison, John Wilson, Simon Ballard, Peter Naylor, Ken King and Pete Gregory for additional data and corrections; and Stewart Smith for a very large amount of additional research (including all location data).