Hockley Tunnel

Hockley Tunnel is a set of two tunnels used by the railway and tram in Hockley, Birmingham, England. Tunnel One is 136 yards long and Tunnel Two is 160 yards long. The tunnel was built by the Great Western Railway for trains travelling between Snow Hill station in Birmingham and Wolverhampton Low Level station in Wolverhampton, and was one of two tunnels on that route, the other being Black Lake Tunnel. The next four stations northbound would have been Hockley railway station, Soho & Winson Green railway station and then Handsworth & Smethwick railway station and The Hawthorns railway station. It fell out of use with the closure of Snow Hill station in March 1972. On 24 September 1995, services north to Smethwick and onwards to...