Conisbrough Tunnel East Portal is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Railway tunnel portal.
Conisbrough Tunnel East Portal
- WRENN ID
- worn-pavement-frost
- 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 East portal 4/89
- 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, rock-faced sandstone walling. Quoined buttresses flank a horseshoe arch with rustication below impost band and roll-moulded hoodmould. Roll-moulded cornice breaks forward over the buttresses; blocking course steps up at centre. 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 west portal (q.v.). Details of the new line discussed in: The Doncaster, Nottinghan and Lincoln Gazette, Nov 9, 1849, p1 and p6. P. L. Scowcroft, Lines of Doncaster: a concise railway history, 1986, p3.
Listing NGR: SK5217899608
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