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            Tyne pedestrian tunnel - about half way across the river, 40 feet below the Tyne!

In the early part of the C20th there emerged a need for a river crossing far downstream of the famous bridges in Newcastle itself. However, there were strong objections to a bridge because of its effect on navigation in the lower reaches of the river, where some of the largest vessels in the world were built and came to be repaired and refitted. A proposal was considered during the 1920s for a tunnel 
between North and South Shields, which would carry high-speed electric monorail cars.

Matters were delayed by the war, but as soon as hostilities ended Councils promoted the necessary Bill which duly received the Royal Assent as the Tyne Tunnel Act, 1946.

This Act provided for the construction of a vehicular tunnel 29 ft. 3 in. in diameter, which would provide for a carriageway 22 ft. wide, and two smaller tunnels, one 12 ft. wide and the other 10 ft. 6 in. in diameter for the use of cyclists and pedestrians respectively. Both tunnels are 900 ft (270 m) in length, and lie 40 ft (12.2 m) below the 
river bed. The tunnels are Grade II listed buildings.

The completed pedestrian and cycle tunnels were opened by the Minister of Transport, the Right Hon. Alfred Barnes, M.P., on the 24th July 1951. The Waygood-Otis escalators were installed in the inclined vertical rise of 85 ft. At the time 17,000 people per day used this facility, and they remain the longest wooden escalators in the world.

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Taken on: December 1, 2009

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