Bowling Tunnel

Bowling Tunnel

Bowling Tunnel south portal
Overview
Line	Calder Valley line
Location	Bowling, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
Coordinates	53°46′12″N 1°44′53″W / 53.770°N 1.748°W / 53.770; -1.748
Status	Open
Operation
Opened	9 May 1850
Owner	Network Rail
Traffic	Passenger
Technical
Design engineer	John Hawkshaw
Length	1,648 yards (1,507 m)
No. of tracks	2
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Grade	1-in-400 (northwards)
Route map
v t e Calder Valley line Legend Cross Country Route to York Leeds Central Leeds Airedale line Holbeck Leeds Hunslet Lane Hunslet Woodlesford Methley North Methley Junction Methley South to Glasshoughton to Castleford Altofts Cross Country Route to Sheffield Armley Moor Normanton Bramley Huddersfield line to Dewsbury Stanningley Midland Main Line Pontefract line New Pudsey Wakefield Kirkgate Shipley and Windhill line Pudsey loop to Wakefield Westgate and Leeds Laisterdyke West Riding & Grimsby Railway Horbury Junction Bradford Adolphus Street Horbury Millfield Road Hallam Line St Dunstans Bowling Bradford Interchange Horbury & Ossett Queensbury lines Healey Mills Marshalling Yard Bowling Junction Bowling Tunnel Dewsbury Market Place to Dudley Hill Thornhill Low Moor Huddersfield line to Leeds Spen Valley Line Wyke Tunnel Mirfield Cooper Bridge Wyke and Norwood Green Pickle Bridge line Huddersfield line Manchester via Standedge Lightcliffe Brighouse Hipperholme Elland Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway Stainland branch Halifax Greetland Copley Sowerby Bridge Rishworth branch Luddendenfoot Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge Eastwood Stansfield Hall Cornholme Todmorden Portsmouth Holme Walsden Towneley Summit Tunnel Burnley Manchester Road Littleborough Smithy Bridge East Lancashire line Rochdale–Bacup line Oldham Loop line Rochdale Castleton East Lancashire Railway Middleton Mills Hill Oldham Branch Railway Middleton Junction Moston Newton Heath Oldham Loop line Huddersfield line Miles Platting Cheetham Hill, 1⁄47 gradient Manchester Oldham Road To Bury Manchester Victoria Manchester Metrolink Manchester–Preston line Manchester–Southport line Liverpool–Manchester lines Ordsall Chord

Bowling Tunnel is a railway Tunnel on the Calder Valley line, south of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The Tunnel was completed in 1850 after some difficulty in construction, and allowed trains from the south to access the second railway terminus in the town of Bradford. The Tunnel remains open to railway traffic with trains between Halifax and Bradford Interchange using it.