Alderton Tunnel

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The Alderton Tunnel sits on the South Wales Main Line on a stretch of line between Swindon and Bristol Parkway. It is 506 yards long. It was opened on 1 January 1903 along with the line between Wootton Bassett and Badminton, that being the first section of the South Wales & Bristol Direct Line of the Great Western Railway.[1]

Building of the tunnel commenced at least two years before 1903 as the rise in railway workers boarding in Alderton village can be seen in the 1901 UK Census.

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