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Great Western Road Tunnel [W Portal]

Botanical Garden, Kelvinbridge, City of Glasgow (Lanarkshire).

Railway tunnel (19th Century), disused.

About 711 yards long, was progressed from a single 30-foot shaft adjacent to Otago Street and from the subterranean station box, 152 yards in length, at the south-west corner of Botanic Gardens. [Forgotten Relics]

E portal at NS 57362 66996 (Otago St). W portal at NS 5680 6740 (Botanic Gardens).

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Between Kelvinbridge and Kirklee stations, the line

(Glasgow Central Railway) was entirely in tunnel, running under Great Western Road and Botanic Gardens where an intermediate station was located. The contract for this two-mile section, awarded to Mr A H Boyle, had a value of £200,000. Its engineers were George Cunningham and Charles Forman.

The Great Western Road Tunnel, about 711 yards long, was progressed from a single 30-foot shaft adjacent to Otago Street and from the subterranean station box, 152 yards in length, at the south-west corner of Botanic Gardens. [Forgotten Relics]

Essentially a continuation of the Kirklee Tunnel, separated by a short opening for the former Botanic Gardens Station.

Given coordinates are for the E portal.

Not a road bridge; railway follows the route of Great Western Road for most of its length.