Primrose Hill Tunnel
Primrose Hill Tunnel is a 1,164-yard railway tunnel on the West Coast Main Line, approximately 2 miles from Euston station. It is located in South Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, just north of Primrose Hill park and consists of two bores: the slow…Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Tunnel
- Description: railway tunnel in Camden, Greater London
- Also known as: “Primrose Hill Fast Tunnel”, “Primrose Hill Tunnels (eastern Portals)”, and “Primrose Hill Tunnels (Western Entrance)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Primrose Hill.
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
University
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, commonly shortened to Central, is a drama school in London, England. It was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 as the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students. Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is situated 1,400 feet northwest of Primrose Hill Tunnel.
Primrose Hill
Park
Photo: Louise Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Primrose Hill is a Grade II listed public park first opened to the public in 1842, immediately north of Regent's Park, a Royal Park in London, England. Primrose Hill is situated 2,000 feet southeast of Primrose Hill Tunnel.
Swiss Cottage Library
Library
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Swiss Cottage Library is a public library in the London Borough of Camden housed in an architectural landmark building on Avenue Road. Designed by Sir Basil Spence of Spence, Bonnington & Collins, it was built between 1963 and 1964. Swiss Cottage Library is situated 890 feet west of Primrose Hill Tunnel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park.
Swiss Cottage
Neighborhood
Swiss Cottage is an area in the London Borough of Camden, England. It is centred on the junction of Avenue Road and Finchley Road and includes Swiss Cottage tube station.
Belsize Park
Suburb
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belsize Park is a residential area of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden, in the inner north-west of London, England. The streets are lined with Georgian and Victorian villas and mews houses.
Primrose Hill
Quarter
Primrose Hill is a district in the London Borough of Camden, England. The area east of the park was developed and became known as Primrose Hill. Primrose Hill is surrounded by St John's Wood to the west, Swiss Cottage to the northwest, Belsize Park to the north, Chalk Farm to the northeast, Camden Town to the east and Regent's Park to the south.
Primrose Hill Tunnel
- Categories: railway tunnel and transportation
- Location: Camden, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.54185° or 51° 32′ 31″ northLongitude
-0.16944° or 0° 10′ 10″ westInception
1879Open location code
9C3XGRRJ+P6OpenStreetMap ID
way 1124492327OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=tunnelWikidata ID
Q27082177
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