Hunsbury Hill Tunnel

Southbound unit entering north portal of Hunsbury Hill Tunnel

Northampton Loop Line
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Birmingham Loop Line Trent Valley Line Rugby Hillmorton Junction Rugby Parkway(proposed) Kilsby and Crick Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) Daventry South Junction Crick Tunnel Watford Lodge Tunnel Long Buckby Althorp Park Church Brampton Northampton to Market Harborough Line Northampton Northampton to Peterboro’ Line & Bedford to Northampton Line Blisworth Hunsbury Hill Tunnel Hanslope Junction Roade Castlethorpe Wolverton Milton Keynes Central West Coast Main Line

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 / 52.2221869°N 0.915454°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 / 52.213037°N 0.9193325°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]

References

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