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    Box Tunnel passes through Box Hill on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) between Bath and Chippenham. The 1.83-mile (2.95 km) tunnel was the world's longest...
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    stations, and tunnels including the Box Tunnel, which was the longest railway tunnel in the world at that time. With the opening of the Box Tunnel, the line...
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    between Chippenham and Bath, was opened on completion of the Box Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel driven by that time, in June 1841. The line's alignment...
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    for centuries Box quarries were famous for their product. Today Box is perhaps better known for its Brunel-designed Box railway tunnel. Box has been twinned...
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    A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway. It is dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, or laid under water, and is usually completely enclosed...
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  • Way "Boxes", a 2020 song by Moses Sumney from Græ Box, Gloucestershire, England Box, Wiltshire, England Box Tunnel, a railway tunnel River Box, Suffolk...
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    The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 ft (11 m) wide by 20 ft (6.1 m) high...
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    and Bath is Box Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel driven by that time. Several years later, the railway opened the even longer Severn Tunnel to carry a...
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    July 2017[update], though funding disputes stalled the tunnel box's completion. The tunnel box was substantially complete by November 2017. The following...
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    Box Hill is a small village in Wiltshire, England, most notable for its position above Brunel's famous Box Tunnel. It is located on the A4 road just northeast...
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    of box tunnel. Construction started in December 2014 and was nearing completion as of July 2017[update], though funding disputes stalled the tunnel box's...
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    KML/Hoosac Tunnel KML is from Wikidata The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75-mile (7.64 km) active railroad tunnel in western...
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    Bath stone (section Box Mine)
    in Somerset; and as a result of cutting the Box Tunnel, at various locations in Wiltshire, including Box and Corsham. In the early 18th century, Ralph...
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    street-level and progressively goes down to a deep circular tunnel through Tacubaya, where the box-tunnel begins. Line 1 is served by MP-68, NM-83 and NE-92 trains...
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  • script, and instead the actors improvised their lines. The box office return was poor but Tunnel Rats was met with positive reviews. A group of US Army soldiers...
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  • was built near Hudswell Quarry, and close to the Box Tunnel part of the broader complex of tunnels and quarries in the Corsham area and adjacent to the...
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  • The Time Tunnel is an American color science-fiction television series written around a theme of time travel adventure; it starred James Darren and Robert...
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    coordinates) 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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    diameter of the tunnel drive, the depth of the tunnel, the logistics of supporting the tunnel excavation, the final use and shape of the tunnel and appropriate...
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    were extended to Paddington on 30 June 1841 following the completion of Box Tunnel. A few weeks before the start of the services to Paddington the Bristol...
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    express services and connections. The eastern portal of Box Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel of its time, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great...
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    Mitchell having briefly snapped and murdered twenty people on a train in the Box Tunnel, in Wiltshire. As Series 3 progresses, the quartet must deal with the...
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    66 chains (194.83 mi; 313.5 km) from the zero point at London Paddington, via Box Tunnel. The station is unstaffed, the former station building now being used...
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    railway station along with the line from Twerton Tunnel to the Sydney Gardens, Middlehill and Box Tunnels; the Swindon area including Swindon railway works...
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    545 feet (166 m) above sea level, and overlooks the Box valley to the south (where Brunel's Box Tunnel is). The parish includes the hamlets of Eastrip and...
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    1893 No. 3021 Wigmore Castle, hauling an express train, was derailed in Box Tunnel when the front axle broke. The cause of the accident was thought to be...
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  • In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or...
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    known for having overseen the process for and construction of the Thames Tunnel, for his work for the Royal Navy, and as father of the British civil and...
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    Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth...
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    1928. "Journey's End" was only 200 yards (180 m) from the western end of Box Tunnel, where the Great Western Railway main line climbs at a gradient of 1 in...
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