Summit Tunnel in England is one of the world's oldest railway tunnels. It was constructed between 1838 and 1841 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company to provide a direct line between Leeds and Manchester. When built, Summit Tunnel was the longest railway tunnel in the world.
The tunnel, between Littleborough and Walsden near Todmorden, was bored beneath the Pennines, a natural obstruction to most forms of traffic. The tunnel is just over 1.6 miles (2.6 km) long and carries two standard-gauge tracks in a single horseshoe-shaped tube, approximately 24 feet (7.2 m) wide and 22 feet (6.6 m) high. Summit Tunnel was designed by Thomas Longridge Gooch, assisted by Barnard Dickinson. Progress on its construction was slower than anticipated, largely because excavation was more difficult than anticipated. On 1 March 1841, Summit Tunnel was opened by Sir John Frederick Sigismund Smith; it had cost of £251,000 and 41 workers had died.
On 20 December 1984, the Summit Tunnel fire occurred. There were no deaths and five months later, the tunnel reopened after repairs. The tunnel has remained in continuous use with little interruption since it opened.
SummitTunnel in England is one of the world's oldest railway tunnels. It was constructed between 1838 and 1841 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company...
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the center of the summittunnel and started work towards the east and west tunnel faces, giving four working faces on the summittunnel to speed up progress...
sections of the line. Normally long-distance trains use the base tunnel line, and the old summit line is only used by trains serving the local people (Läufelfingerli)...
not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube construction techniques rather than traditional tunnel boring methods. A tunnel may be...
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right-of-way was the line built in 1869 with a 1,200-foot-long (370 m) summittunnel by the original Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) as part of the...
to Littleborough began on 18 August 1837, and on the SummitTunnel the following year. The tunnel proved much more expensive than planned, and took longer...
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miles) and to Milan by 100 km (60 mi). Northeast of Mont Blanc's summit, the tunnel is about 15 km (10 mi) southwest of the tripoint with Switzerland...
three people. December 20 - The SummitTunnel fire occurred on a dangerous goods train passing through the SummitTunnel on the Greater Manchester/West...
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December 1984: SummitTunnel fire: Locomotive 47125 was hauling a freight train of petrol tankers which derailed and caught fire in SummitTunnel, on the Lancashire/West...
railway line incorporated the (then) longest tunnel in the world, the 2,885-yard-long (2,638-metre) SummitTunnel. A second railway, from Todmorden to Burnley...
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