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Pencader Tunnel
Pencader Tunnel in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Pencader Tunnel is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Pencader Tunnel is an abandoned railway tunnel on the old trackbed of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth main line in south-west Wales. It was originally bored for the Llanpumsaint-Pencader section of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway (C&CR). It is approximately 988 yards (903 m) long (just over half-a-mile), making it the longest tunnel in West Wales and is bored through Ordovician shales. It is single-track and built to the C&CR's adopted broad gauge dimensions, as opposed to the smaller standard gauge used on Britain's railways today. It is also known as alternatively Alltwalis Tunnel and Dolgran Tunnel to local villagers.
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Background
History
From the first proposals of the Carmarthen and Cardigan railway it was known that an expensive and long tunnel would be needed to take the line between the valleys of Skanda Vale (in which Llanpumpsaint station resided) and Dolgran, under the Brechfa Forest watershed. Several separate engineers surveyed the line, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with varying schemes. Brunel proposed a dead-straight tunnel to connect the valleys, though after reworking, the final design was longer in order to ease the gradients. As built, the tunnel was approximately 988 yd long, curving slightly from the southern portal in Skanda Vale, running straight for most of its length and then curving for the final…
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- Coordinates
- 51.9793, -4.3026
- District
- Carmarthenshire
- Parish
- Llanfihangel-ar-Arth
- Postcode
- SA39 9DB
- Parliamentary constituency
- Caerfyrddin
Sources
- wikidata: Q7162287 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Pencader Tunnel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Pencader Tunnel?
- Pencader Tunnel is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.9793°, -4.3026°.