Latitude: 52.5668 / 52°34'0"N
Longitude: -0.3942 / 0°23'39"W
OS Eastings: 508934
OS Northings: 297766
OS Grid: TL089977
Mapcode National: GBR GYC.34Q
Mapcode Global: WHGMB.XRF2
Plus Code: 9C4XHJ84+P8
Entry Name: Wansford Railway Tunnel Circa 500 Metres West of Wansford Station
Listing Date: 16 November 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1274860
English Heritage Legacy ID: 414077
ID on this website: 101274860
Location: Sibson, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, PE8
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Huntingdonshire
Civil Parish: Sibson-cum-Stibbington
Traditional County: Huntingdonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Castor with Upton and Stibbington and Water Newton
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SIBSON-CUM-STIBBINGTON OLD GREAT NORTH ROAD, TL 09 NE Sibson (West Side) 1/109 Wansford Railway Tunnel c.500 metres west of Wansford Station II Railway tunnel. Completed June 1845 for L.N.W.R. Northampton - Peterborough line by Jones of Sheffield. Coursed rock faced limestone and freestone dressings to embankment walls, brick lined tunnel. Romanesque details to round arch of west portal with two roll-moulded and chamfered orders springing from attached columns with cushion capitals. Single track line with pedestrian side walk to south side. The tunnel was constructed in seventeen months by 1,000 navvies camped in a disused quarry in the parish of Elton.
Waszak, P. Wansford Station, Nene Valley Railway International, Vols. 6-10
Listing NGR: TL0893497766
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