Disused Railway Tunnel Under Dawley to Wellington Road
DISUSED RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER DAWLEY TO WELLINGTON ROAD, A4169
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257692
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Disused Railway Tunnel Under Dawley to Wellington Road
- Statutory Address:
- DISUSED RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER DAWLEY TO WELLINGTON ROAD, A4169
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257692
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Disused Railway Tunnel Under Dawley to Wellington Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- DISUSED RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER DAWLEY TO WELLINGTON ROAD, A4169
- Statutory Address 2:
- DISUSED RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER DAWLEY TO WELLINGTON ROAD, DAWLEY ROAD
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DISUSED RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER DAWLEY TO WELLINGTON ROAD, A4169
- Statutory Address:
- DISUSED RAILWAY TUNNEL UNDER DAWLEY TO WELLINGTON ROAD, DAWLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lawley and Overdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6764608044
Details
SJ 60 NE;
1126/31/10022
A4169 (DAWLEY ROAD), Dawley
Disused Railway Tunnel under Dawley- Wellington Road
II
Disused railway tunnel. Circa 1856 for the Wellington and Severn Junction Railway. Blue engineering bricks with stone dressings. Brick parabolic arch tunnel, with portal at either end with rusticated stone voussoirs and keyblock to the arch, stone bull-nose cornice and parapet and splayed and ramped abutment wings with stone coping and small terminal piers. The tunnel is cut through the embankment of the road above. The Wellington and Severn Junction Railway was authorised in 1853. A short single track line from the main line to Horsehay was opened in 1857 and extended as far as Lightmoor in 1859. Although the Company was leased by GWR, initially most of the goods traffic was run by the Coalbrookdale Company.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463547
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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