Wansford Railway Tunnel Circa 500 Metres West of Wansford Station is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1988. Railway tunnel.

Wansford Railway Tunnel Circa 500 Metres West of Wansford Station

WRENN ID
forgotten-panel-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1988
Type
Railway tunnel
OS grid reference
TL 089 977
Coordinates
52.56684, -0.39424
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wansford Railway Tunnel is a railway tunnel located approximately 500 metres west of Wansford Station. It was completed in June 1845 for the London and North Western Railway's Northampton to Peterborough line, built by Jones of Sheffield. The tunnel features coursed rock-faced limestone with freestone dressings on the embankment walls and is lined with brick. The west portal has Romanesque details, including a round arch with two roll-moulded and chamfered orders that spring from attached columns with cushion capitals. It accommodates a single track line and has a pedestrian sidewalk on the south side. The construction of the tunnel took seventeen months and involved 1,000 navvies who were camped in a disused quarry in the parish of Elton.

Local climate

Wansford Railway Tunnel Circa 500 Metres West of Wansford Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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