Railway Tunnel Number 71A, Inch View is a Grade C listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 March 2000. Tunnel.

Railway Tunnel Number 71A, Inch View

WRENN ID
salt-basalt-heron
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Fife
Constituency
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 March 2000
Type
Tunnel
OS grid reference
NT 266 865
Coordinates
56.06596, -3.1803
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Railway Tunnel Number 71A, built in 1846, is located on the Kinghorn to Burntisland route. The entrance is made of ashlar stone, with flat-coped rubble walls leading up to it. The tunnel features a single segmental arch, flanked by pilasters and elongated voussoirs. Above the arch, there is a cornice and a deep blocking course, which is situated below a cavetto cornice and a block pediment.

Local climate

Railway Tunnel Number 71A, Inch View receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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