Entrances to Railway Tunnels is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Railway entrance. 1 related planning application.

Entrances to Railway Tunnels

WRENN ID
frozen-stronghold-frost
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rossendale
Constituency
Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1984
Type
Railway entrance
Address
Entrances to Railway Tunnels, Newchurch Road
OS grid reference
SD 836 216
Coordinates
53.69138, -2.24865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The entrances to the railway tunnels are located on the East Lancashire Railway between Rawtenstall and Bacup, constructed in 1851 and between 1878 and 1881. The engineer for the 1851 tunnel was J.S. Perring. The structure features a rock-faced gritstone retaining wall with a dressed band and parapet. There are rectangular piers at each end and one in the center, with two parabolic arches between them, which are adorned with rusticated voussoirs. The second tunnel was added to accommodate the doubling of the track during the later construction period.

Local climate

Entrances to Railway Tunnels sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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