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?
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Tunnels you can cycle through in. edinburgh
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Obviously...
(not near Craigleith)
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The one under Canonmills? Freaked me out when I stumbled on it.
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@IWRATS, that's the Heriothill tunnel, aka Rodney Street tunnel.
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.
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How short can a structure be before it's no longer a tunnel?
This map is mainly what I'd call underpasses, but you might consider them tunnels: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BJs
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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
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@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.
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I'd say the one under the A1 near QMU probably qualifies on dankness alone.
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Some of these tunnels are quite short and seem to have roads for roofs?
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Some of these tunnels are quite short and seem to have roads for roofs?
But they are tunnels?
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The one under the Powderhall line near St Mark's, near the sewer vent chimney.
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Posted 6 years ago #
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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.
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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.
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@gembo - I only saw that post on Lost Edinburgh and didn't realise that a Colinton tunnel website existed. Really interesting.
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Depending on your criteria there is the subway/tunnels at Gateway station and Craigies baracks.
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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
They are starting at the end of the poem at the east exit of the tunnel and working to the front
So the poem will work on the descent
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Sheeptoucher provided pics of this to family WhatsApp group earlier today.
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THe muralist Chris Rutterford on the BBC WEBSITE NOW. Curiously the Easter Hailes Gate tunnel described as abandoned.
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