Disused Railway Tunnel Under Dawley to Wellington Road is a Grade II listed building in the Telford and Wrekin local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 March 1997. Railway tunnel.
Disused Railway Tunnel Under Dawley to Wellington Road
- WRENN ID
- winter-step-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford MP: Shaun Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1997
- Type
- Railway tunnel
- Address
- Disused Railway Tunnel Under Dawley to Wellington Road, Lawley and Overdale
- OS grid reference
- SJ 676 080
- Coordinates
- 52.66915, -2.47987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The disused railway tunnel under Dawley to Wellington Road was built around 1856 for the Wellington and Severn Junction Railway. It is constructed from blue engineering bricks with stone dressings. The tunnel features a brick parabolic arch, with portals at both ends that include rusticated stone voussoirs and a keyblock to the arch. It also has a stone bull-nose cornice and parapet, along with splayed and ramped abutment wings that have stone coping and small terminal piers. The tunnel is situated beneath the embankment of the road above. The Wellington and Severn Junction Railway was authorized in 1853, with a short single track line from the main line to Horsehay opening in 1857 and extending to Lightmoor in 1859. Although the company was leased by the Great Western Railway, most of the goods traffic was initially operated by the Coalbrookdale Company.
Local climate
Disused Railway Tunnel Under Dawley to Wellington Road 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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