The Brookville Tunnel (also Brooksville Tunnel) was a historic railroad tunnel engineered by Claudius Crozet during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s. The tunnel was part of a series of four tunnels used to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for the Virginia Central Railroad of the United States.
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point
length (km)
264.871
closing year
1960-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
location
Albemarle County Virginia
number of tracks
1
opening year
1856-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
owner
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Blue Ridge Railroad (1849–70)
railway line using tunnel
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Blue Ridge Railroad (1849–70)
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