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Strood Tunnel (northern entrance)

 
Dillywood Lane, Frindsbury ME3 8EN, United Kingdom
Address is taken from a point 262 yards away.
 
Information about the place
Strood Tunnel (northern entrance) is a minor waterways place on the Thames and Medway Canal between Gravesend Canal Basin (5 miles and 2¾ furlongs to the west) and Strood Basin (1 mile and 4 furlongs to the southeast).
 
It is at one end of Strood Tunnel.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Gravesend Canal Basin is Strood Tunnel Passing Basin (The tunnel was opened out here to allow for a passing place.); ¼ furlongs away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Strood Basin is Strood Tunnel (southern entrance); 1 mile and 2½ furlongs away.

Mooring here is unrated.

 
 
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Amenities nearby at Strood Tunnel (southern entrance)

 Tesco
 BP
 Esso
 Frindsbury, MJ Engineers
 Mr G H Stokes
 Mr John Rich
 Strood Service Station
 
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[Thames and Medway Canal] middle. This 100-yard long cutting divided the tunnel into a separate Higham tunnel and Strood tunnel. The canal tolls reflected these improvements, but [Strood railway station] new line left the line from Gravesend between Strood Tunnel and the original Strood terminus; a new Strood station was provided on the Maidstone line, and [Strood] Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England. It lies on the northwest bank of the River Medway at its lowest bridging [North Kent Line] Thames and Medway Canal tunnel near Higham and laid railway tracks through it; in 1847 trains were working through from the Strood terminus, on the River [Islington Tunnel] (878 m) Islington Tunnel and the nearby Maida Hill Tunnel, he went on to be a specialist tunnelling contractor, completing the Strood Tunnel on the Thames [Medway Tunnel] The Medway Tunnel is a tunnel under the River Medway linking Strood with Chatham in Kent, England. It forms part of the A289 Medway Towns Northern Relief [Sapperton Canal Tunnel] Britain – which only accommodates 7-foot-wide narrowboats (2.1 m). Strood Tunnel on the Thames and Medway Canal was 3,946 yards (3,608 m) when it opened [Higham, Kent] to the Medway at Strood. It lost the second half of its route c. 1847 when the railway took over the Higham and Strood canal tunnel, but continued to [Dudley Tunnel] network today. (Standedge Tunnel is the longest, at 5,456 yards (4,989.0 m), and the 3,931 yards (3,594.5 m) Higham and Strood tunnel is now rail only). However [List of tunnels in the United Kingdom] This is a list of road, railway, waterway, and other tunnels in the United Kingdom. A tunnel is an underground passageway with no defined minimum length
 
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The Higham-Strood tunnel showing the Strood entrance to the ...
Dec 23, 2015 ... The Higham-Strood tunnel showing the Strood entrance to the combined canal/ rail tunnel. North Kent Railway. Date of drawing 1845. [Click on ...
Thames and Medway Canal - Wikipedia
It joins the River Thames at Gravesend (north-west) to the River Medway at Strood (south-east). The Thames and Medway Canal is a disused canal in Kent, south east England, also known as ... The Higham and Strood tunnel is 3.5 km ( 2.2 mi) long, and was the second longest canal tunnel built in the UK (the longest is the ...
High Speed 1 - Wikipedia
High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a 67-mile ( 108 km) ... The line crosses the River Medway, and tunnels under the River Thames, terminating at St Pancras International ... The idea of using the North London line proved illusory, and it was rejected in 1994 by the then Transport Secretary, ...
Medway directions - Medway - University of Kent
Nov 18, 2019 ... From London, the North and East Anglia (via M25 clockwise) and ... The campus entrance is the first exit at the next roundabout, ... Take the last exit just before the Medway Tunnel, signposted Chatham and Historic Dockyard.
North portal - Higham tunnel - Thames & Medway canal - Higham ...
May 20, 2016 ... The northern portal to Higham tunnel which is now a rail tunnel. ... Strood and Higham Tunnels were originally built for the Thames & Medway Canal, ... Is the Tunnel in Use?: Redundant Which End is this Entrance?: North
Eastern entrance to the Medway Tunnel © N Chadwick cc-by-sa/2.0 ...
Feb 26, 2011 ... The Medway Tunnel was opened by the Princess Royal in 1996. It forms part of the Medway Towns northern Relief Road (A289). It was the first ...
Visiting a huge tunnel network under Rochester – ianVisits ...
Aug 1, 2010 ... This tunnel network is nothing to do with the castle though – it is a modern ... surface building but stress was lid upon the vulnerability of the Medway estuary. ... development, and many of the tunnel entrances were blocked off.
Download Strood community trail leaflet
passes through the tunnel and the brick entrance can be seen just north of Strood station at Frindsbury. In 1969 the Strood Basin was filled in and a housing ...