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Latitude: 55.9614 / 55°57'40"N
Longitude: -3.1958 / 3°11'44"W
OS Eastings: 325443
OS Northings: 674908
OS Grid: NT254749
Mapcode National: GBR 8NB.4H
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.WFC8
Plus Code: 9C7RXR63+HM
Entry Name: Tunnel, Rodney Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: Rodney Street Tunnel
Listing Date: 12 December 1974
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370780
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30037
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370780
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Inverleith
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure Tunnel portal
Grainger and Millar, Leith and Granton Railway Engineers, 1844-47. 2 entrances to tunnel, at Scotland Street Goods and Mineral Station and at Heriot Hill House, Broughton Road. Slightly depressed horseshoe arches with long rusticated voussoirs between tapered droved and semicircular ashlar buttresses, curved approach walls, band course below coped ashlar parapet.
Constructed on a gradient of 1 in 27 and worked by cable haulage, closed since 1868, but still intact.
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