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Tunnels
List of Tunnels
on West Country Railways
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This page is intended to provide a list of all the Tunnels on the railways of the UK West Country. It will concentrate initially on tunnels on lines which carried passenger services, but it is hoped to include details of tunnels on goods-only lines in due course.

Sometimes there might seem to be very little difference between a very short tunnel and a very wide overbridge. However the passage of trains through tunnels was subject to various rules and regulations, so it was important to know what was, or was not, a tunnel as opposed to a bridge. It would appear that a length of 2 Chains (44 Yards) was used as the criterion in such cases.

Tunnels are listed below in alphabetical order. A location is given for each tunnel by reference to the next station, junction or signal-box (SB) in the Up and Down directions. The length of the tunnel (where known) is given in yards, the traditional UK railway measurement.

List of West Country Tunnels
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Name Location  (between) Length
A
Bathealton Wiveliscombe Venn Cross 447
Bincombe (North) Monkton Came Halt Upwey Wishing Well Halt 814
Bincombe (South) Monkton Came Halt Upwey Wishing Well Halt 56
Blackboy Exmouth Junction St James' Park Halt 263
Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Bradford Junction 159
Brownqueen Bodmin Road Lostwithiel 79
Buckhorn Weston Gillingham Templecombe 742
Buckshead Probus & Ladock Truro 320
Castle Hill South Molton Filleigh 321
Chilcompton (Note 1) Midsomer Norton South Chilcompton  
Clerk Dawlish Parsons Tunnel SB 60
Clifton Bridge No 1 Clifton Bridge Oakwood SB 59
Clifton Bridge No 2 Clifton Bridge Oakwood SB 232
Crewkerne Crewkerne Chard Junction 205
Combe Down Bath Junction Midford 1829
Combe Hay Combe Hay Halt Dunkerton 66
Coryton Dawlish Parsons Tunnel SB 224
Culver Longdown Dunsford Halt 251
Dainton Stoneycombe Siding SB Totnes 264
Devizes Pan's Lane Halt Devizes 190
Devonport (GWR) Devonport (Albert Road) Dockyard Halt 125
Devonport Park (L&SWR) Albert Road Halt Devonport (Kings Road) 534
Devonshire Bath Junction Midford  
Evershot Chetnole Halt Evershot 308
Fisherton Porton Salisbury 443
Flax Bourton Long Ashton Platform Flax Bourton 110
Ford Ford Albert Road Halt 363
Frampton Maiden Newton Grimstone & Frampton 432
Greenway Churston Kinsgwear 495
Grenofen Horrabridge Whitchurch Down Platform 383
Gulwell Buckfastleigh Ashburton 47
Hatch Thornfalcon Hatch 152
Higher Town Truro Penwithers Junction 70
Holdenhurst Road Christchurch Bournemouth Central 50
Honiton Seaton Junction Honiton 1345
Ilfracombe (Note 1) Mortehoe Ilfracombe 70
Instow Fremington Instow  
J
Kennaway Dawlish Parsons Tunnel SB 209
Landcross Bideford Torrington 196
Lee Beer see Shaugh tunnel
Marley (Note 1) Totnes Brent 869
Mount Pleasant Exmouth Junction Exeter Central 83
Mutley     183
Nightcott Dulverton East Anstey 44
O
Parsons Dawlish Parsons Tunnel SB 517
Perran Perranwell Penryn 374
Perridge Ide Longdown 829
Phillot Dawlish Parsons Tunnel SB 50
Pill Ham Green Halt Pill 665
Pinnock Fowey St Blazey 1173
Polperro Probus & Ladock Platform Truro 581
Poundbury Bradford Peverell & Stratton Dorchester West 264
Q
Redruth Scorrier Redruth 47
Rodwell Westham Rodwell  
St David's Exeter Central Exeter St David's 184
Sandstone Clifton Bridge Oakwood SB 88
Shaugh (Note 4) Shaugh Bridge Platform Clearbrook Halt 307
Shillamill Tavistock North Bere Alston 603
Shillingham see Wivelscombe tunnel
Shuteshelf Axbridge Winscombe 198
Somerton Somerton Long Sutton & Pitney 1053
Sparnick Penwithers Jcn Perranwell 491
Trelill Port Isaac Road St Kew Highway 354
Treverrin Lostwithiel Par 565
U
Venn Cross Wiveliscombe Venn Cross 243
Whiteball Wellington Burlescombe 1088
Winsor Hill (Note 2) Masbury Shepton Mallet  
Wivelscombe (Note 3) Defiance Platform St Germans 451
Wrangaton Brent Wrangaton 47
X
Yelverton Yelverton Horrabridge 641
Z
Notes:
1 Two separate single bores.
2 Two separate single bores of different lengths.
3 Also known as Shillingham.
4 Also known as Lee Beer.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z