I’m working my way through reading the usual pile of Christmas books and have enjoyed one of the more unusual subjects, Mark Chatterton’s Britain’s Road Tunnels. Mark has kindly reviewed my two railway books on his website Branch Line Britain and I’m pleased to be able to do the same for his interesting book.
Asked to name road tunnels in Britain we might reel off a handful and stretch it to a dozen with a bit of thought, but Mark Chatterton has found more than a hundred. For each of these he gives some history and interesting snippets of information, along with a photo. He includes a few which are closed to the public, or are no longer road tunnels, which I found particularly interesting, plus some which are planned to be built in the future.
The book starts by considering the definition of a tunnel, as opposed to an underpass or bridge, and finds that as with the best rules, a degree of flexibility is required. The author hopes that readers will find tunnels that they don’t know exist. The book certainly did this for me but it also highlighted some tunnels that I’ve driven or walked through with no thought but I’ll now recognise them and know a little of their story.
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