Tunnel Under Railway Embankment is a Grade II listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1990. Tunnel.

Tunnel Under Railway Embankment

WRENN ID
south-render-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hartlepool
Constituency
Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 August 1990
Type
Tunnel
Address
Tunnel Under Railway Embankment, Speeding Drive
OS grid reference
NZ 491 358
Coordinates
54.71512, -1.23803
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The tunnel under the railway embankment, built around 1835, was designed by George Stephenson for the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company. It features ashlar stone construction with ashlar dressings. The horse-shoe shaped tunnel is lined with ashlar and has a rusticated archway at each end. The north archway includes chamfered coping, side pilasters topped with ball finials, and angled sloping side walls made of rock-faced ashlar with ashlar coping, along with short terminating piers that also have ball finials. The south archway is similar but has plain ashlar sloping side walls without the terminating piers.

Local climate

Tunnel Under Railway Embankment receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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