Friday, January 28, 2022
London's 50 longest rail tunnels
(based on data here) (does not include tube tunnels)
1) Crossrail [main tunnel] 15.4km Royal Oak → Custom House (2022)
2) High Speed 1 [London 2] 10.1km Stratford International → Dagenham (2007)
3) High Speed 1 [London 1] 7.5km St Pancras International → Stratford International (2007)
4) Crossrail [Heathrow] 6.6km Hayes & Harlington → Heathrow (1998)
5) Moorgate 3.7km Moorgate → Drayton Park (1904)
6) Crossrail [Thames] 2.9km North Woolwich → Plumstead (2022)
7) Crossrail [Pudding Mill] 2.7km Stepney → Stratford (2022)
8) Penge 1.96km Sydenham Hill → Penge East (1863)
9) Belsize 1.71km Kentish Town → West Hampstead (1884)
10) St John's Wood 1.57km Marylebone → Finchley Road (1899)
11) Kings Cross 1.55km Kings Cross Thameslink → Kentish Town (1868)
12) Blackheath 1.54km Blackheath → Charlton (1849)
13) South Hampstead 1.49km Primrose Hill → South Hampstead (1922)
14) Kings Cross 1.33km Kings Cross → Kentish Town (1868)
15) Primrose Hill 1.08km Euston → South Hampstead (1879)
16) Hampstead Heath 1.06km Hampstead Heath → Finchley Rd & Frognal (1860)
17) Elstree 967m Mill Hill Broadway → Elstree (1890)
18) Wapping 768m Shadwell → Wapping (1876)
19) Riddlesdown 765m Riddlesdown → Upper Warlingham (1884)
20) Canal 763m St Pancras International Low Level → Finsbury Park (2018)
21) Crystal Palace 682m Gipsy Hill → Crystal Palace (1856)
22) Clerkenwell 668m Kings Cross → Farringdon (1868)
23) Rotherhithe 658m Rotherhithe → Surrey Quays (1876)
24) Wood Green 645m Alexandra Palace → New Southgate (1898)
25) Hampstead 635m Marylebone → Finchley Road (1899)
26) Chislehurst 593m Grove Park → Elmstead Woods (1865)
27) Thames 576m Rotherhithe → Wapping (1876)
28) Bishopsgate 573m Liverpool Street → Bethnal Green (1874)
29) Crossrail [Connaught] 572m Custom House → Woolwich (1876)
30) Barnet 553m New Southgate → Oakleigh Park (1898))
31) Copenhagen 543m Kings Cross → Finsbury Park (1850)
32) Chelsfield 518m Chelsfield → Knockholt (1868)
33) Gasworks 483m Kings Cross → Finsbury Park (1852)
34) Drayton Green 463m Drayton Green → Castle Bar (1970s)
35) Maze Hill 411m Greenwich → Maze Hill (1878)
36) Queens Road 407m Hackney Downs → Clapton (1872)
37) Leigham Court 406m Tulse Hill → Streatham Hill (1856)
38) Kidbrooke 400m Blackheath → Kidbrooke (1895)
39) Hadley Wood South 351m New Barnet → Hadley Wood (1850)
40) Knight's Hill 303m North Dulwich → Tulse Hill (1868)
41) Temple Mills Depot Link 300m Stratford International → Lea Bridge (2007)
42) Shoreditch 297m Shoreditch High Street → Whitechapel (1876)
43) Kensal Green 293m Queens Park → Willesden (1851)
44) Camden Road 282m St Pancras → Camden Road (1867)
45) Leigham 276m Tulse Hill → Streatham (1868)
46) Clapton 260m Hackney Downs → Clapton (1872)
47) George IV 218m Woolwich Dockyard → Woolwich Arsenal (1849)
48) Hadley Wood North 212m Hadley Wood → Potters Bar (1850)
49) Streatham 201m Tulse Hill → Streatham (1868)
50) Earl's Court 201m Kensington Olympia → West Brompton (1991)
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