Road tunnels

There is a another little one on the Wombeyan Caves Rd in the Southern Highlands, NSW. A traffic mirror at each end, if I recall correctly, as there is a sharp 90deg bend each side of the tunnel.

Cheers

Frank

Hi Val,
When I read the title of your Thread, before I scrolled down, the first one that came to mind was the Old Glen Innes Rd Tunnel.
Very well known around these parts for a great days driving into the old Gold Fields.
There is a lot of country between Dorrigo and the Queensland boarder along the Gibraltar range. As well as a great deal of untold history.

Cheers.

Jon

Hi Val

One that springs to mind is Boolboonda tunnel on the Mt Perry to Gin Gin road in Queensland.


Don't know how to upload photo's but it is about the same size as the one i n your photo.


Cheers Teza

There are two on the Newnes Plateau, out from Lithgow, on the road to the glow worm tunnel. Both are, as is the glow worm tunnel, on the alignment of the former Wolgan Valley Railway.

Bruce V

Tassie has the Zeehan Spray Tunnel, it's a tight squeeze but we made it.

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Josh

Hi John and Val...
Ever been for holiday in NZ....plenty of road tunnels and spectacular scenery associated with them.

I have been through the one on the Old Grafton Road. When in USA in 1998 I stayed with friends in the central Wyoming town of Thermopolis, went for a drive down Wind River Canyon on Highway 20 to Boysen Dam, there's 3 tunnels on that road all within a couple of Klms.

And on I-70 Eastbound at 11,300 ft I went through a long tunnel West of Denver.

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the work that was done on I-70 is just amazing, the viaduct goes for mi les.

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G'day Val,

I have done a lot of travel in the forests around the area of Northern NSW & never seen that tunnel. Beautiful part of the country so I will have to put that on my list to see.

One that comes to mind is the tunnel at Jenolan caves in the Blue mountains but it gets pretty busy in there in comparison with the one in your photo.

Cheers
Stu

One from Kiwi land that we went through was the Homer Tunnel on the way to Milford Sound. Even slipped a bit in the little hired Toyota on the way through.

This is from Wikipedia

The Homer Tunnel is a road tunnel in the Fiordland region of the South Island of New Zealand, opened in 1954. New Zealand State Highway 94 passes through the tunnel, linking Milford Sound to Te Anau and Queenstown, by piercing the Main Divide at the Homer Saddle.[1] It connects between the valley of the Eglinton and Hollyford Rivers to the east and that of the Cleddau to the west.

The tunnel is straight and was originally single-lane and gravel-surfaced. The tunnel walls remain unlined granite. The east portal end is at 945 m elevation; the tunnel runs 1270 m at approximately a 1:10 gradient down to the western portal.[2] Until it was sealed and enlarged it was the longest gravel-surfaced tunnel in the world

The Homer Tunnel

Wasn't/isn't there a road tunnel on the Sandy Hollow to Bylong Rd. NSW ?

Fred

I am pretty sure there is a tunnell on a new section (3+ years ago) of the Tweed Valley Way up near Murwillumbah, no photos though as its on a freeway.

I am also trying to locate some photos that I have of the tunnels on the road down to the Glowworm Tunnel at Newnes, something must have gone wrong with the backup system.

Regards
Paul H

There are 5 tunnels that go right under the mountains at Hervey Range west of Townsville

Cheers,


Cruiser