http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Tunnels you can cycle through in. edinburgh en Tue, 19 May 2026 11:59:35 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-317671 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:17:22 +0000 gembo 317671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>THe muralist Chris Rutterford on the BBC WEBSITE NOW. Curiously the Easter Hailes Gate tunnel described as abandoned. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-309402 Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:09:41 +0000 unhurt 309402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sheeptoucher provided pics of this to family WhatsApp group earlier today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-309401 Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:54:58 +0000 gembo 309401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The mural has kicked off at Easter Hailes Gate in some style. Kapow, biff, Zap different fonts for the last line of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem about being in a train</p> <p>They are starting at the end of the poem at the east exit of the tunnel and working to the front</p> <p>So the poem will work on the descent </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290807 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:30:39 +0000 acsimpson 290807@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Depending on your criteria there is the subway/tunnels at Gateway station and Craigies baracks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290713 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 21:28:38 +0000 Rosie 290713@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo - I only saw that post on Lost Edinburgh and didn't realise that a Colinton tunnel website existed. Really interesting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290711 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 21:04:33 +0000 gembo 290711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spokes have been publicising the remaking of the mural in the Easter hailes gate tunnel. The colinton tunnel website has some excellent links in a section they call Further Reading, including a link to the Colinton Tramlines which was in existence for 27 years but never saw a tram. Ran from slateford up to Reford Barracks. The good folks of Colinton were not best pleased that army barracks were being built locally. Back in 1874. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290604 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:39:05 +0000 acsimpson 290604@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Quite short with a road for a roof sounds like an underpass to me. Perhaps that is also the significance of Arellcat's suggestion that the lower route needs to have significance. I think a tunnel normally needs to be below ground level. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290590 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:00:24 +0000 cb 290590@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11862">Similar thread from four years ago.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290587 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 20:51:20 +0000 wingpig 290587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The one under the Powderhall line near St Mark's, near the sewer vent chimney. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290560 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 19:01:57 +0000 Frenchy 290560@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Some of these tunnels are quite short and seem to have roads for roofs? </em></p> <p>But they <em>are</em> tunnels? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290558 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:59:54 +0000 gembo 290558@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some of these tunnels are quite short and seem to have roads for roofs? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290557 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:55:23 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 290557@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd say the one under the A1 near QMU probably qualifies on dankness alone. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290555 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:31:11 +0000 Arellcat 290555@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy, I was about to suggest the little tunnelly thing under the WoL path that leads onto the old Arrol footbridge by Mossy Mill. I used to cycle through there in my university days. It's probably an underpass, really. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290554 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:25:12 +0000 gembo 290554@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rodney street tunnel yes, as I was saying to myself you cannot count the Scotland street one as you cannot get in and out on yer bike but of course Rodney street/ heriot hill is a discrete tunnel </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290553 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:22:06 +0000 Frenchy 290553@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How short can a structure be before it's no longer a tunnel?</p> <p>This map is mainly what I'd call underpasses, but you might consider them tunnels: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BJs" rel="nofollow">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BJs</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290552 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:18:58 +0000 Arellcat 290552@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS, that's the Heriothill tunnel, aka Rodney Street tunnel.</p> <p>I remember having a discussion with @k-burn on Flickr, about when the area under a bridge becomes a tunnel. I think we agreed it was when the length to width ratio is greater than about two, and/or when the route under the bridge is more significant than any route over the bridge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290549 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:59:26 +0000 I were right about that saddle 290549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The one under Canonmills? Freaked me out when I stumbled on it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290547 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:55:48 +0000 chdot 290547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Obviously...</p> <p>(not near Craigleith) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19097#post-290544 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:53:41 +0000 gembo 290544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Obviously, the trinity tunnel just north of five ways near craigleith and Easter hailes gate at colinton and the innocent. Any more I err, should be remembering? </p>