West Portal is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Railway tunnel portal.
West Portal
- WRENN ID
- far-eave-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Doncaster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Railway tunnel portal
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CADEBY CONISBROUGH TUNNEL SK59NW West portal 4/90
- II
Railway tunnel portal. 1849. For the South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Goole Railway Company engineer Charles Bartholomew of the River Don Company (Doncaster Gazette, 1849). Gritstone voussoirs, ashlar sandstone walling. Horshoe arch with hollow-moulded hoodmould set in raised panel with battered arrises and rusticated quoins. Heavy cornice with double roll mould. The line was opened on 10th November 1849 and linked the Midland and Great Northern networks; after 1864 it became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway which itself became the Great Central Railway in 1897. Linked by a 200 metre brick-lined tunnel to east portal (q.v.). Details of the new line discussed in:' The Doncaster, Nottinohan and Lincoln Gazette, Nov 9, 1849, p1 and p6. P. L. Scowcroft, Lines of Doncaster; a concise railway history, 1986, p3.
Listing NGR: SK5198099520
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