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Box tunnel showing the West Portal - Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England
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Box tunnel showing the West Portal - Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England
Box tunnel showing the West Portal - Box Tunnel is a railway tunnel in western England, between Bath and Chippenham, dug through the Box Hill. It was built for the original route of the Great Western Railway under the direction of the GWRs engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The tunnel is 1 mile 1452 yards (2, 937 m) in length, straight, and descends a 1 in 100 gradient from the east. Construction started in 1836, and the tunnel opened in 1841. The lives of about 10 navvies (railway construction workers) were lost during construction. At the time of opening it was the longest railway tunnel in the world,
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