Catesby Tunnel
Catesby Tunnel is a disused railway tunnel in Northamptonshire on the route of the former Great Central Main Line. Its northern portal is about south of Catesby Viaduct and west of Upper Catesby, with the tunnel ending at Charwelton to the south. In terms of both length and gauge, Catesby Tunnel is unusually large, at wide, high, and long. The tunnel was completed in 1897, and was closed in 1966 when the line was made redundant by British Rail. After lying abandoned and flooded for over 50 years, proposals were granted in 2017 for the conversion of the wide, straight tunnel into an aerodynamic test facility for road and race cars. Description The tunnel, its portals and air shafts are all lined and faced with hard Staffordshire blue brick and a total of about 30 million bricks were used. The tunnel has five air shafts; four are in Catesby parish and each has a diameter of . The fifth is in the neighbouring parish of Hellidon, and has a diameter of for greater airflow. A ...
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Catesby Tunnel-North Portal (geograph 4400596)
Catesby may refer to: Places * Catesby, Northamptonshire, England, a civil parish * Catesby, Oklahoma, United States, an unincorporated community People * Catesby (surname) * Catesby ap Roger Jones (1821–1877), American Civil War naval commander * R. Catesby Taliaferro (1907–1989), American mathematician, science historian, classical philologist, philosopher and translator of ancient Greek and Latin works * Robert Catesby (1572-1605), English catholic and leader of the 1605 Gunpowder plot. See also * Lower Catesby and Upper Catesby, two hamlets in Catesby, Northamptonshire * Catesby Priory, in Lower Catesby, a former priory of Cistercian nuns * Catesby Tunnel, a disused railway tunnel in Northamptonshire * Catesby's snail-eater, a species of non-venomous snake * ''Sistrurus miliarius :''Common names: pygmy rattlesnake, eastern pygmy rattlesnake, ground rattlesnake, leaf rattler, death rattler, #Common names, more.''Albert Hazen WWright AH, Anna Allen WWright AA (1957). '' ...
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