Tags: Railway Tunnel.
The Sapperton Railway Tunnel named after the nearby village of Sapperton (near Cirencester Gloucestershire) carries the Golden Valley Line from Stroud to Swindon through the Cotswold escarpment. It was begun by the Cheltenham and Great Western Union railway in 1839 and taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1843 being completed in 1845. There are actually two tunnels the main one at 1 mile 104 yards (1704m) in length and separated by a short gap a second at just 353 yards (323m).
