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List of tunnels in Australia

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List of tunnels in Australia

This is a list of tunnels in Australia which includes any road, railway, waterway or other form of tunnel, anywhere in the country.

Contents

New South Wales

  • Airport Tunnel on General Holmes Drive (Mascot, road, 550m)
  • Carcoar Tunnel (rail Blayney-Domondrille line)
  • Cross City Tunnel (Sydney, road)
  • Cudgen Road Tunnel (Tweed Valley, road)
  • Devonshire Street Tunnel (Sydney, pedestrian)
  • Dorrigo railway line 2 tunnels
  • Eastern Distributor Tunnel (Sydney, road)
  • Fernleigh Tunnel (former rail, now rail trail-cycleway)
  • M2 Lane Cove Tunnel (Sydney, road)
  • Main North Line
  • Boronia Tunnels ( 1-4 in use, 5 deviated; double track)
  • Long Island
  • Mullet Creek
  • Woy Woy Tunnel (rail, opened 15 August 1887) (double track)
  • Tickhole Tunnel
  • Ardglen Tunnel (rail)
  • Main South Line
  • New Main Tunnel (Picton)
  • Old Main Tunnel (Picton, rail, 181 metres, disused, 1-Mar-1867 until 13-Jul-1919)
  • Redbank Tunnel - deviated, filled in
  • Gib tunnel - one single track, one double track
  • Bethungra Spiral (rail) (2 tunnels)
  • Main West Line
  • Old Glenbrook Tunnel (rail) (deviated)
  • Glenbrook Tunnel
  • Clarence Tunnel (rail) (deviated by 10 Tunnels, used by Zig Zag)
  • Belmore Tunnel (Zig Zag rail)
  • Ten Tunnels Deviation 1910 (rail) (replaced Zig Zag)
  • North Coast Line
  • Coffs Harbour has 5 (North Coast railway line, New South Wales)
  • Cougal Spiral (rail) (2 tunnels)
  • Border Tunnel (rail) (NSW-QLD)
  • South Coast Line
  • Helensburgh Tunnels, (South Coast rail line, 7 tunnels, disused)
  • Merewether Bluff (rail, disused, Australia's first 2 railway tunnels, 1861 & 1862, privately operated)
  • M5 East Tunnel (Sydney, road)
  • NorthConnex- 9km (under construction)
  • St Helena Tunnel (road) (opened 18 December 2015)
  • Sydney Harbour Tunnel (road)
  • Sydney underground railways
  • City Circle (rail)
  • Airport railway line (rail, 10 km long)
  • Eastern Suburbs railway line (rail)
  • Epping to Chatswood railway line (rail)
  • North West Rail Link (under construction, open 2019) (Bella vista-Epping)
  • Tugun Bypass Tunnel (Tweed Heads, road)
  • WestConnex (Sydney, road) (under construction)
  • Wynyard Walk (Sydney, pedestrian)

    • Queensland

  • Airport Link (Brisbane, road) - Australia's longest road tunnel at 6.7 km
  • Boggo Road Busway (Brisbane, bus)
  • Boolboonda Tunnel (Mount Perry, rail heritage)
  • Border Tunnel
  • Cherry Gully Tunnel (railway tunnel, Southern Downs Region)
  • Clem Jones Tunnel (Brisbane, road)
  • Cross River Rail (Brisbane, rail) - proposed
  • Dalveen Tunnel (railway tunnel, Southern Downs Region)
  • Dularcha Railway Tunnel (former railway tunnel, Sunshine Coast Region)
  • Inner City Bypass (Brisbane, road)
  • Lahey's Canungra Tramway Tunnel (Gold Coast, heritage) - c.1900
  • Legacy Way (Brisbane, road)
  • Leopard Street Tunnel (Brisbane, stormwater) - c.1890
  • Main Range tunnels
  • Muntapa rail tunnel (Cooyar, rail heritage)
  • Nundah Bypass (Nundah, road)
  • Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (Toowoomba, road) - proposed
  • Tugun Bypass tunnel (Gold Coast, road)
  • Victoria Tunnel (Grandchester, rail)
  • Yimbun Railway Tunnel (railway tunnel, Somerset Region)
  • Many Peaks - Monto loop line 6 tunnels (disused railway line)

    • See; Railway Tunnels in Queensland, Australia

    South Australia

  • Heysen Tunnels on the South Eastern Freeway
  • Sleeps Hill Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Former Sleeps Hill Tunnels Main South Line (rail)
  • Shepherds Hill Road Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Former Coromandel Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Former Pinera Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Belair National Park Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Long Gully Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Upper Sturt Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Yantaringa Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Murray Bridge Tunnel Main South Line (rail)
  • Clarendon Weir to Happy Valley Reservoir Tunnels (water)
  • Torrens Gorge Tunnel (water)
  • Barossa reservoir supply tunnel from South Para River (water)
  • Dowds Hill Tunnel Peterborough - Broken Hill railway (rail)
  • Tod River Reservoir works (water)

    • Victoria

  • City Loop Tunnels (Melbourne, rail tunnels)
  • Burnley Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the CityLink road network)
  • Domain Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the CityLink road network)
  • Melba Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the EastLink road network)
  • Mullum Mullum Tunnel (Melbourne, part of the EastLink road network)
  • Spotswood sewer tunnel (under Yarra River, Fishermans Bend and Spotswood)
  • Westgate Tunnel (Melbourne, a proposed tunnel to reduce congestion on the Westgate Bridge)

    • Western Australia

  • Canning Tunnel (water)
  • Northbridge Tunnel (Perth, road)
  • Swan View Tunnel (Perth, rail, closed)
  • William Street Tunnel (Perth, rail)
  • Wungong Tunnel (water)

    • Tasmania

  • Rhyndaston Tunnel (rail)

    • References

    List of tunnels in Australia Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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