List of tunnels in Australia
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Tunnel
A tunnel is an underground passageway, completely enclosed except for openings for egress, commonly at each end.A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers...
s in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
which includes any road
Road
A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...
, railway, waterway
Waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water. Waterways can include rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals. In order for a waterway to be navigable, it must meet several criteria:...
or other form of tunnel, anywhere in the country.
New South Wales
- Airport TunnelGeneral Holmes DriveGeneral Holmes Drive is a major road that runs through Brighton-Le-Sands and Kyeemagh in New South Wales, Australia.General Holmes Drive starts from the The Grand Parade in Brighton-Le-Sands, continues into the suburb of Kyeemagh, running along Cook Park, over the Cooks River , past Sydney Airport...
on General Holmes Drive (Mascot, road, 550m) - Ardglen TunnelArdglen TunnelThe Ardglen Tunnel is a summit tunnel on the Main North railway in New South Wales, Australia, between Newcastle and Werris Creek. It crosses under the Liverpool Range near its east end below Nowlands Gap , the crossing used by the New England Highway.It is approximately 500 metres long, and...
(rail) - Border Tunnel (rail)
- Clarence TunnelClarence TunnelThe Clarence Tunnel is a railway tunnel that was originally part of the Main Western railway line across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately long.-History and description:...
(rail) - Cross City TunnelCross City TunnelThe Cross City Tunnel is a 2.1 km-long tunnel located in Sydney, Australia. It links Darling Harbour on the Western fringe of the central business district to Rushcutters Bay in the Eastern Suburbs...
(Sydney, road) - Cudgen Road TunnelCudgen Road TunnelThe Cudgen Road Tunnel is located at Stotts Creek in the Tweed Valley of northern New South Wales. It consists of two separate tunnels, one for northbound traffic and another for southbound traffic. Both tunnels are 134 metres long and are lit up inside...
(Tweed Valley, road) - Eastern Distributor TunnelEastern DistributorThe Eastern Distributor, also identified as the M1, is a long motorway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Part of Metroad 1, it links the Sydney central business district with the Airport...
(Sydney, road) - Glenbrook TunnelGlenbrook Tunnel (1892)The Glenbrook Tunnel is a single gauge railway tunnel, originally part of the 1892 single track deviation, which bypassed the Lapstone Zig Zag across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. It is approximately long and is constructed in an 'S' shape with a gradient of 1:33.The tunnel was...
(rail) - M2 Lane Cove TunnelLane Cove TunnelThe Lane Cove Tunnel is a A$1.1 billion, 3.6 km twin tunnel tollway in Sydney, Australia, connecting the M2 Motorway at North Ryde with the Gore Hill Freeway at Artarmon. It forms part of Sydney Metroad 2 and the 110 km Sydney Orbital Network...
(Sydney, road) - MerewetherMerewether, New South WalesMerewether is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located from Newcastle's central business district with a population of around 10,000. The suburb stretches from Merewether Beach in the east to Adamstown in the west.- Establishment :...
Bluff (rail, disused, Australia's first 2 railway tunnels, 1861 & 1862, privately operated) - M5 East Tunnel (Sydney, road)
- Old Main Tunnel (PictonPicton, New South WalesPicton is a small town in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire. The town is located 80 kilometres South-west of Sydney, close to Camden and Campbelltown. It is also the administrative centre of Wollondilly Shire....
, rail, 181 metres, disused, 1-Mar-1867 until 13-Jul-1919) - St Helena TunnelSt Helena TunnelThe St Helena Tunnel is a proposed twin-tube road tunnel under St Helena Hill located near the settlement of Ewingsdale, New South Wales, Australia. The tunnel is part of the proposed Pacific Highway new alignment between Tintenbar and Ewingsdale....
- Sydney Harbour TunnelSydney Harbour TunnelThe Sydney Harbour Tunnel is a twin-tube road tunnel in Sydney, Australia. The tunnel was completed and opened to traffic in August 1992 to provide a second vehicular crossing of Sydney Harbour to alleviate congestion on the Sydney Harbour Bridge....
(road) - Sydney underground railwaysSydney underground railwaysSydney, Australia has several sections of underground railway. These sections of railway are extensions of suburban main line services and are not a completely segregated true metro system. The underground sections, especially the City Circle, typically have frequent services...
- City CircleCity CircleThe City Circle is a system of largely underground passenger railway lines located in the central business district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that make up the heart of the Sydney passenger railway network. The lines are owned by RailCorp, a New South Wales government agency, and...
(rail) - Airport & East Hills Railway Line (rail, 10 km long)
- City Circle
- Tugun BypassTugun BypassThe Tugun Bypass is 7.5 km long, bypassing through the suburb of Tugun on the Gold Coast, Australia. The speed limit on the Tugun bypass is 100 km/h and provides a high-speed motorway link between the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales, separating interstate vehicles from local...
Tunnel (Tweed Heads, road) - Woy Woy TunnelWoy Woy TunnelThe Woy Woy railway tunnel, opened on the 15th August, 1887, is located between Wondabyne and Woy Woy railway stations on the Newcastle and Central Coast railway line which follows the route of the Main North railway line.- Statistics & facts :...
(rail, opened 15 August 1887)
Queensland
- Airport LinkAirport Link, BrisbaneThe Airport Link is a tunnelled motorway grade road which is under construction in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It will connect the Brisbane central business district and the Clem Jones Tunnel to the East-West Arterial Road which leads to the Brisbane Airport...
(BrisbaneBrisbaneBrisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, road) - under construction - Canungra Tramway Tunnel (Gold CoastGold Coast, QueenslandGold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...
, heritage) - c.1900 - Cross River RailCross River RailCross River Rail is a proposed new underground rail line in Brisbane, Australia. The project involves building a new 18 km railway under the Brisbane River and the Brisbane central business district, creating four new underground inner city stations, and increasing the core capacity of the...
(BrisbaneBrisbaneBrisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, rail) - proposed - Boggo Road Busway (bus)
- Boolboonda TunnelBoolboonda TunnelThe Boolboonda Tunnel is an abandoned railway tunnel near Mount Perry in Queensland, Australia. The tunnel is 192 m in length making it the longest unsupported man-made tunnel in Queensland. Its construction represented an important engineering feat for rail transport in Queensland.The tunnel was...
- Clem Jones Tunnel (Brisbane, road)
- Inner City Bypass (Brisbane, road)
- Legacy Way (Brisbane, road) - under construction
- Nundah Bypass (Nundah, road)
- Victoria TunnelVictoria Tunnel, QueenslandThe Victoria Tunnel in Queensland is the oldest and longest railway tunnel in the state, built when the state was a separate colony.The tunnel is one of two built through the Little Liverpool Range on a section of narrow gauge railway from Grandchester to Gatton. The railway opened in June 1866...
(rail) - Leopard Street Tunnel (BrisbaneBrisbaneBrisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
. stormwater) - c.1890
South Australia
- Heysen TunnelsHeysen TunnelsThe Heysen Tunnels are twin tube road tunnels which carry the Adelaide-Crafers Highway under Eagle On The Hill in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. The tunnels were excavated using a tunnelling machine normally used in heavy-duty mining operations which tunnelled through 500 metres of rock...
on the Adelaide-Crafers HighwayAdelaide-Crafers HighwayThe Adelaide-Crafers Highway is a 10 kilometre controlled-access highway linking Adelaide city centre to Crafers in the Adelaide hills, and continuing from Crafers as the South Eastern Freeway. The highway is ten kilometres long, including 500 metre long twin-tube tunnels , the first of their kind... - 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 WeirClarendon WeirThe Clarendon Weir is a small weir on the Onkaparinga River, near Adelaide in South Australia. Built in 1894–96 as part of the early Onkaparinga Water Scheme, the weir was designed to pool water from the Mount Bold Reservoir, on the Onkaparinga, which is often boosted with water from the River Murray...
to Happy Valley ReservoirHappy Valley ReservoirConstructed when the total population of Adelaide numbered 315,200 the Happy Valley Reservoir now supplies over a half a million people, from Adelaide's southern extent to the city-centre.-Construction:...
Tunnels (water) - Torrens Gorge Tunnel (water)
- Dowds Hill Tunnel Peterborough - Broken Hill railway (rail)
- Tod River Reservoir works (water)
Victoria
- City Loop Tunnels (MelbourneMelbourneMelbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, rail tunnels) - Burnley TunnelBurnley TunnelThe Burnley Tunnel is a tollway tunnel in Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, which carries traffic eastbound from the West Gate Freeway to the Monash Freeway. It is part of the CityLink Tollway operated by Transurban. Running under the Yarra River and the inner suburbs of Richmond and Burnley, the...
(Melbourne, part of the CityLinkCityLinkCityLink is a system of tolled urban Highways in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The company Transurban was awarded the contract to augment two existing freeways and construct two new Toll roads—labelled the Western and Southern Links—directly linking a number of existing freeways to...
road network) - Domain TunnelDomain TunnelThe Domain Tunnel is a road tunnel located in Melbourne, Australia, which carries traffic westbound from the Monash Freeway to the West Gate Freeway, running under the Yarra River and Kings Domain...
(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)
- Westgate Tunnel (Melbourne, a proposed tunnel to reduce congestion on the Westgate Bridge)
Western Australia
- Canning TunnelCanning TunnelThe Canning Tunnel was constructed between 1973 and 1975 to link Canning Dam to Perth's Integrated Water Supply System. It was built to replace the Canning Contour Channel which was a depression era public works project of the 1940s and constructed in conjunction with the opening of the dam.The...
(water) - Northbridge Tunnel (Perth, road)
- Swan View TunnelSwan View TunnelThe Swan View Tunnel is a 340 m railway tunnel located on the southern side of the Jane Brook valley at Swan View, Western Australia on the edge of the Darling Scarp. Currently inactive, due to its location within the John Forrest National Park, the tunnel and its adjacent landscape exist...
(Perth, rail, closed) - William Street Tunnel (Perth, rail)
- Wungong TunnelWungong TunnelThe Wungong Tunnel links the Wungong Dam to Perth's Integrated Water Supply System. It originates just west of Wungong Dam and runs through the granite Darling Scarp to the western portal in Rails Crescent....
(water)