Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26564489

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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