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    Box Tunnel passes through Box Hill on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) between Bath and Chippenham. The 1.83-mile (2.95 km) tunnel was the world's longest...
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    A tunnel is an underground or undersea passageway. It is dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, or laid under water, and is usually completely enclosed...
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    stations, and tunnels including the Box Tunnel, which was the longest railway tunnel in the world at that time. With the opening of the Box Tunnel, the line...
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    The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 ft (11 m) wide by 20 ft (6.1 m) high...
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    for centuries Box quarries were famous for their product. Today Box is perhaps better known for its Brunel-designed Box railway tunnel. Box has been twinned...
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    and Bath is Box Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel driven by that time. Several years later, the railway opened the even longer Severn Tunnel to carry a...
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    of box tunnel. Construction started in December 2014 and was nearing completion as of July 2017[update], though funding disputes stalled the tunnel box's...
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  • Way "Boxes", a 2020 song by Moses Sumney from Græ Box, Gloucestershire, England Box, Wiltshire, England Box Tunnel, a railway tunnel River Box, Suffolk...
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  • In physics, quantum tunnelling, barrier penetration, or simply tunnelling is a quantum mechanical phenomenon in which an object such as an electron or...
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    between Chippenham and Bath, was opened on completion of the Box Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel driven by that time, in June 1841. The line's alignment...
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