UK Road Tunnels

[Who me ?]

Halmyre said:

I've added this little gem. The Google Streetview car didn't dare to enter...

Thats the "mini " tunnel in Galley common, outside Nuneaton under the Birmingham rail line. Bit longer than a rail underbridge , but barely so. 30 limit, but low roof, no cameras, but there's a T junction not far beyond the end, and coming the otherway, sighting is poor onto a single track road with short sighted locals.

[Craikeybaby]

Ooooh. Local to me then!

[Robdutton91]

I’ve tried to access the maps from the link in the original post, but just comes back with a 404 page? And won’t open in google maps iOS app.

[Evanivitch]

Whome said:

Halmyre said:

I've added this little gem. The Google Streetview car didn't dare to enter...

Thats the "mini " tunnel in Galley common, outside Nuneaton under the Birmingham rail line. Bit longer than a rail underbridge , but barely so. 30 limit, but low roof, no cameras, but there's a T junction not far beyond the end, and coming the otherway, sighting is poor onto a single track road with short sighted locals.

Similar to the tunnel under the railway at Neath.

Edited by Evanivitch on Wednesday 12th October 15:57

[Craikeybaby]

Is that Park Lane in Galley Common? As the height restrictions seem to be a bit higher than on that image on Google Streetview now.

Google have been making changes to Maps over the years to monetise them, so it could well be that it has broken the link to this map, if it wasn't updated.

[fourthpedal]

Something about the idea of going out to find tunnels made me laugh. Mind you I live in Switzerland where we're drowning in tunnels - in particular some horrible 80 km/h bidirectional long tunnels without separating barriers. I almost wish the satnav would warn me about routes with long tunnels. Different countries different problems.

[Halmyre]

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Halmyre said:

I've added this little gem. The Google Streetview car didn't dare to enter...

Thats the "mini " tunnel in Galley common, outside Nuneaton under the Birmingham rail line. Bit longer than a rail underbridge , but barely so. 30 limit, but low roof, no cameras, but there's a T junction not far beyond the end, and coming the otherway, sighting is poor onto a single track road with short sighted locals.

Nowhere near Nuneaton! It's near Kirkintilloch, passing under the Forth and Clyde Canal.

[Grandluxurychauffeurs]

Excellent idea

[Halmyre]

Here's another beauty, Boquhanran Road under the Forth and Clyde canal in Clydebank. Not especially low, but pretty bloody narrow. These are as far as the Google car dared approach:

[Tymb]

fourthpedal said:

Something about the idea of going out to find tunnels made me laugh. Mind you I live in Switzerland where we're drowning in tunnels - in particular some horrible 80 km/h bidirectional long tunnels without separating barriers. I almost wish the satnav would warn me about routes with long tunnels. Different countries different problems.

Having just looked it up was surprised to see the Gotthard tunnel is still like this, I thought they would have done a second bore by now. As a youngster having spent several hours broken down in it while trying to get to Italy for a holiday in about 1987 have never been that keen on long tunnels since.

A couple of short ones under mainline railway.

Just South of Woking


Pirbright - following a bus or one of the army trucks through here it looks tight. With the footpath the road is offset from the centre so the roof appears to get a lot closer to the vehicles than you’d think with the allowed height.