Mound Tunnels
Location type
TunnelName and dates
Mound Tunnels (1846-)Description
This set of three tunnels pass under The Mound in Edinburgh. To the west is the Princes Street Gardens Cutting and to the east Edinburgh Waverley.
The tunnels are, from north to south:
- single bore
- two bore
- single bore
The tunnels are 130 yards long.
The tunnels are on the 1846 extension of the 1842 Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to meet the 1846 North British Railway at what became Edinburgh Waverley.
Local
Above the tunnels is the Scottish National Gallery.
Tags
Tunnels tunnel10/11/2019
| Nearby stations Princes Street [Tram] Princes Street [1st] St Andrew Square [Tram] Edinburgh Waverley Edinburgh Princes Street Lothian Road York Place [Tram] Picardy Place [Tram] Scotland Street West End - Princes Street [Tram] McDonald Road [Tram] St Leonards Haymarket Leith Walk Haymarket [Tram] | The Mound [Tram] Princes Street Gardens Cutting Waterloo Place [Tram] Waterloo Place Edinburgh Signalling Centre Tourist/other Scottish National Gallery Gladstone^s Land Camera Obscura Scott Monument St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh Castle The Balmoral Hotel Princes Street Gardens Scottish National Portrait Gallery National Museum of Scotland |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
News items
| 08/09/2022 | Edinburgh trains cancelled as flooding causes chaos between Haymarket and Waverley [Edinburgh Live] |
