Watford Tunnels are a pair of railway tunnels on the West Coast Main Line just north-west of Watford in Hertfordshire, Eastern England. The original was...
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enters Watford Tunnel; the south face of the original tunnels is ornately decorated and a listed building. There are ten conservation areas in Watford; one...
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over the Colne valley and immediately south of Watford Tunnel. The first railway station to open in Watford was situated on the north side of St Albans Road...
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coordinates) This is a list of road, railway, waterway, and other tunnels in the United Kingdom. A tunnel is an underground passageway with no defined minimum length...
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The Watford DC line is a suburban railway line from London Euston to Watford Junction in Greater London and Hertfordshire. Its services are operated by...
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Tunnel, London Watford Tunnels, Hertfordshire Bickerdike, Graeme (27 April 2018). "Stairway to heaven: shaft repairs at Kilsby tunnel". Rail Engineer...
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Other L&BR tunnels: Watford Tunnels, Hertfordshire Kilsby Tunnel, Northamptonshire Wikimedia Commons has media related to Primrose Hill Tunnel. Historic...
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16 September 2016, unit 350264 struck a landslide at the entrance to Watford Tunnel and derailed. It was then hit by unit 350233 travelling in the opposite...
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Bakerloo line (category Tunnels underneath the River Thames)
the Stanmore branch to new tunnels bored between Baker Street and Charing Cross. When the Bakerloo line was extended to Watford in 1917, it acquired an interchange...
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Watford tube station is the terminus of the Watford branch of the Metropolitan line. It is on the north-western part of the London Underground in Zone...
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the double-track tunnel from Baker Street to Finchley Road, was bypassed by boring two tube tunnels underneath the Metropolitan tunnels, transferring slow...
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Watford Gap services are motorway services on the M1 motorway in Northamptonshire, England. They opened on 2 November 1959, the same day as the M1, making...
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Watford Central, a planned London Underground station in the centre of Watford, Hertfordshire, was to be the terminus of a proposed extension of the Metropolitan...
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company was formed by Francis Giles who proposed building a line through Watford Gap and Coventry. Neither company obtained backing for its scheme, and...
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not pass in the tunnels, and so the Grand Junction was happy for the new canal to be built with only narrow locks, but with broad tunnels and bridges to...
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hills, including viaducts over the Brent and over the Colne, along with Watford Tunnel and Tring Cutting to take the railway through the Chiltern Hills. The...
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Vicarage Road (category Buildings and structures in Watford)
Vicarage Road is a stadium in Watford, England, and is the home stadium of Championship club Watford. An all-seater stadium, its current capacity is 22...
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network, that has railway tunnels just below the surface and was built mostly using the cut-and-cover method. The tunnels and trains are of a similar...
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London Underground (redirect from Underground railway tunnels)
The system's first tunnels were built just below the ground, using the cut-and-cover method; later, smaller, roughly circular tunnels—which gave rise to...
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required considerable engineering work to tackle the natural topography. Watford Tunnel was one of the first major engineering challenges, after which the line...
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New Mills (redirect from Watford, Derbyshire)
Little Mill and the landlord of the Little Mill Inn were swept away. At Watford Bridge the river took away part of the printworks, and at Bate Mill gouged...
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engineering works along a long embankment which starts just north of Watford Tunnel and is a short distance north-west of Abbots Langley bridge, another...
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running tunnels each with standard gauge rail track with an overhead line energised at 25 kV 50 Hz. There are connecting passages from the running tunnels to...
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North Watford is an area in the town of Watford, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It is now primarily a residential area which developed as a result...
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derailed inside Watford Tunnel, Hertfordshire due to a broken rail. The rear three carriages became divided from the train at Watford Junction station...
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The Watford and Edgware Railway (W&ER) was a company established in the 1860s in the United Kingdom to build a railway between Edgware in North London...
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Hill Tunnels (Eastern Portals) (1329904)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 February 2021 Historic England, "Primrose Hill Tunnels (Western...
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is in the process of making a mesmeric assault on a local girl, Lilla Watford. Meanwhile, Arabella March, of Diana's Grove, is running a game of her...
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669. February 4 – United Kingdom – A train runs into a landslip at Watford Tunnel, Hertfordshire and is derailed. One person dies, six are injured. late...
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Copped Hall. This section also features two cut-and-cover tunnels, including the Bell Common Tunnel. The north-eastern section of the motorway passes close...
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