South Portal Of Shildon Railway Tunnel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. Railway tunnel portal.
South Portal Of Shildon Railway Tunnel
- WRENN ID
- fallen-corner-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- Railway tunnel portal
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 22 NW SHILDON BURNEY GARDENS (East side, off) 4/67 South portal of Shildon Railway Tunnel II
South portal of Shildon Tunnel. 1842 for the Shildon Tunnel Company (a subsidiary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company). Dressed and ashler sandstone. Neo-Romanesque style. Large, semicircular roll-moulded arch, with rusticated, inward-splayed intrados, set in battered, rock-faced portal. Corbelled parapet and short blocking course above.
Shildon Tunnel (originally Known as the Prince of Wales Tunnel) was built to by-pass the Black Boy Incline and to serve the Wear Valley. The north portal lies within Bishop Auckland District.
(K. Hoole, A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, Volume 4 - The North East, 1974.
Listing NGR: NZ2321526292
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