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Strood Tunnel Passing Basin

 
The tunnel was opened out here to allow for a passing place.
Dillywood Lane, Frindsbury ME3 8EN, United Kingdom
Address is taken from a point 320 yards away.
 
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Strood Tunnel Passing Basin is a minor waterways place on the Thames and Medway Canal between Gravesend Canal Basin (5 miles and 2½ furlongs to the west) and Strood Basin (1 mile and 4¼ furlongs to the southeast).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Gravesend Canal Basin is Higham Tunnel (southern entrance); ¼ furlongs away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Strood Basin is Strood Tunnel (northern entrance); ¼ furlongs away.

Mooring here is unrated.

 
 
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[Strood] the Isle of Grain. At the Strood end the canal was entered through a lock into Frindsbury basin and then entered a tunnel. It opened 4 October 1824. [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 [Thames and Medway Canal] would have to wait in the canal basin for longer than the journey round Hoo would have taken. The Higham and Strood tunnel is 3.5 km (2.2 mi) long, and was [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 [Thames and Severn Canal] Tunnel, at the time, the longest in England. Its length has only been exceeded by two other canal tunnels, at Standedge in the Pennines and at Strood [South East England] Medway Tunnel, and next to the Universities at Medway, Chatham. Sleepeezee (owned by the Simmons Bedding Company) is at Conquest Ind Est in Strood on the
 
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Thames and Medway Canal - Wikipedia
The Thames and Medway Canal is a disused canal in Kent, south east England, also known as ... Foot passengers, however, still pass to and fro, though some caution is ... The Strood canal basin, long orphaned by the loss of the tunnel, was  ...
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Template:Thames and Medway canal. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to navigation Jump to search ... 5.5. passing basin. --. Strood Tunnel ...
Higham & Strood Tunnels
For all Vessels entering any Basin or Pen of Water, but not passing along all the Line: 1 s ... To take the railway through Higham and Strood Tunnels, the solution  ...
Thames & Medway Canal - Engineering Timelines
It was never a commercial success, but its tunnel between Higham and ... The tidal lock opens into a canal basin, excavated in chalk. ... To complete the route to Strood meant passing through or around the hard chalk ridge at Higham. Walker  ...
Geotechnical Aspects of the Strood and Higham Railway Tunnel ...
The Strood and Higham Railway Tunnel is some 3.7km in length and was ... In 1830, a 100m long section was opened out in cutting as a passing basin for the ...
Thames and Medway Canal - WikiVisually
Foot passengers, however, still pass to and fro, though some caution is necessary, ... The Strood canal basin, long orphaned by the loss of the tunnel, was ...
33 117 working the Strood tunnel flood buster at Higham. 1… | Flickr
During the winter of 1987-88 the old Medway Canal basin dock at Strood ... was opened out midway during that year to create a passing place for canal barges.
geotechnical aspects of the strood and higham railway tunnel ...
Apr 28, 2014 ... The Strood and Higham Railway Tunnel is some 3.7km in length ... In 1830, a 100m long section was opened out in cutting as a passing basin ...
Medway Tunnel: Design and Construct | Immersed tunnel ...
Jul 7, 2015 ... Abstract: Introduction. Design Procedures. Geology. West Bank Approach Structures. Immersed Tunnel Structure. Closure Joint. East Bank ...