| Box Tunnel portal at risk? Posted by matth1j at 08:20, 6th November 2025 |     |
https://bathnewseum.com/2025/11/06/box-tunnel-blues/
The portal leading into Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s historic Grade 11* listed Box rail tunnel may be placed on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.
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It saddens me that such an important example of the railway history of this country, in particular when the country is celebrating 200 years of the Railway under Railway 200, is in such poor condition.
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It saddens me that such an important example of the railway history of this country, in particular when the country is celebrating 200 years of the Railway under Railway 200, is in such poor condition.
| Re: Box Tunnel portal at risk? Posted by Witham Bobby at 09:15, 6th November 2025 | |
Vegetation seems to be a feature of much of the railway's masonry structures these days
Perhaps I'm old fashioned to beleive that keeping trees, shrubs and under/overgrowth under control is more cost effective than allowing them to reach a stage where they can be destructive
| Re: Box Tunnel portal at risk? Posted by Mark A at 09:52, 6th November 2025 | |
It's not old fashioned. It's difficult for any vegetation that puts roots into structures to be other than bad news, it's something that brings avoidable expense as time passes. Ditto trees growing within a certain distance above a retaining wall. It's now rather more difficult to organise clearing the stuff alongside a live railway line but it should be part and parcel of maintaining the railway.
Mark
