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Latitude: 54.9632 / 54°57'47"N
Longitude: -1.9994 / 1°59'57"W
OS Eastings: 400138
OS Northings: 563174
OS Grid: NZ001631
Mapcode National: GBR GCG1.YM
Mapcode Global: WHB2F.8H5Z
Plus Code: 9C6WX272+77
Entry Name: East Portal of Farnley Scar Tunnel
Listing Date: 24 May 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1370551
English Heritage Legacy ID: 239902
ID on this website: 101370551
Location: Northumberland, NE45
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Corbridge
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Corbridge with Halton and Newton Hall
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Architectural structure Tunnel portal
CORBRIDGE FARNLEY
NZ 06 SW NZ 00146318
10/141 East portal of Farnley
Scar Tunnel
II
Portal of railway tunnel, opened 1834 for the Newcastle-Carlisle line. Engineer Francis Giles. Squared
stone with tooled and margined dressings, brick soffit. Round arch with flat-coped wall above; flanking
wing walls have similar coping.
Farnley Scar Tunnel (170 yards long) was one of two tunnels on the Newcastle-
Carlisle line, the earliest cross-country railway in the world. The tunnel
was bypassed by the adjacent cutting in the later C19, but remains in good
condition.
Listing NGR: NZ0013863174
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