Bath's Two Tunnels walking and cycle route

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Ah, BBC website + BBC Sounds.

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BBC One - Points West The regional news programme for the West of England

We *may* be on BBC television/radio today, including Points West, 13:35 and 18.30.

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12th September. Fundraising talk from Frome's Missing Links.

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We have raised well over £6k on the fundraising page - thank you 🙏

We are raising money for charities that Tim supported, and that help others in the way Tim hoped to: helping with mental health, and travelling using low-carbon transport. www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

Here's more on the artwork "Passage".

www.twotunnels.org.uk/passage.html

The artwork 'Passage'. A collage of just one of the lights with its various colour changes.

If you're wondering if the artwork, called 'Passage', in Combe Down Tunnel, will be powered up again, Sustrans will be organising this in association with other electrical work to the lighting there - the intention is to have it going again 'By the end of this year'.

This Sunday: a Two Tunnels Railway Races day from Relish Running (throughout which the route remains open to everyone).

Race information below - and there are places available on the day. A spectacle, as well as food & drink, to be had in Brookfields Park

www.relishrunningraces.com/bath-two-tun...

A fantastic start - less than £2,000 left to go!
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Bath teacher takes on Everest cycling challenge in aid of school Dan will be starting his ‘Everesting' attempt at 4am, repeatedly ascending the hill around 100 times.

Dan will be starting his ‘Everesting’ attempt at 4am, repeatedly ascending a safe section of the hill around 100 times. www.bathecho.co.uk/news/communi...

‘Investing in destruction’: campaigners attack plans to fill Yorkshire tunnel with concrete Government decision to infill disused Queensbury railway line comes amid calls for it to be converted to subterranean cycle path

Infilling the Queensbury tunnel with concrete would be industrial vandalism and a crime, when it could and should be revitalised and reused for active travel.
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Combe Down Tunnel & a snowy day.

What we cannot provide: snow in Lyncombe Vale in July '25 (so far).

What we can provide: ~14° centigrade in the tunnels.

Travelling to Glastonbury 2025 actively Sustrans is supporting Glastonbury to bring you the best cycle routes to Worthy Farm.

For a small fee, luggage transportation to the festival site is also available to make travelling by bike as light as possible.

Read more about how you can get to Glastonbury by bike, including routes, here 👇
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Dingy Skipper butterfly

Grizzled Skipper butterfly

Great to see two (less than common) butterflies using the embankment at Tucking Mill. These grassland butterflies will appreciate the work carried out by Sustrans and Bath Two Tunnels volunteers early last month. @twotunnelsbath.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @sustrans.bsky.social

Two Tunnels route. The puddle at Combe Down Tunnel, Saturday 5th April.

Cool in the tunnel and 'Grass snake spring warmth' on emerging.

Even though it's no longer running from the inspection hatch, the tunnel drain is still in a spot of trouble, this one is with @sustrans.bsky.social

Tiny photo of the Two Tunnels route through the cutting south of Tucking Mill Viaduct.

Another work party coming up. Saturday morning, 15th March, tomorrow. You're welcome to join in.

The task being 'Grassland habitat management'.

Meeting point for this? Tucking Mill Viaduct.

The time: 10am - 12:30pm

Tools and gloves are good, though some will be provided, as will biscuits.

Bath and North East Somerset Council are consulting on plans to improve the connection between the Two Tunnels route and Lyncombe Vale Road. We'd be grateful if you'd complete the consulation in support of this.

www.bathnes.gov.uk/lyncombe-val...

Two Tunnels running race across Combe Down Viaduct the year someone had a bonfire.

Also for 2025, a pair of Two Tunnels Railway Races, June 1st and August 17th. www.relishrunningraces.com/bath-two-tun...

Combe Down Tunnel's north portal - a misty Saturday morning.

Saturday morning and heading through the tunnel to a cheerful bramble work party in the cutting beyond the south portal.

There's also a (shallow) flood there, slightly improved after some spadework.

Something is blocking the tunnel drain though.
The issue's logged with @sustrans.bsky.social.

Devonshire Tunnel: evening of the sixth of February.

This evening. Devonshire Tunnel has been reopened.

April 2013, and crowds queue to use the Two Tunnels route.

When the route reopens, we don't expect the queues that were seen at its opening in 2013, but it'll be good to see Devonshire Tunnel back in use and more resilient.

Devonshire Tunnel's filled cutting in Linear Park, and the access shaft to the blockwall and tunnel.

You might remember this vista, looking along Linear Park, with the cap of the access shaft to Devonshire tunnel in the foreground.

Looking to the north portal of Devonshire Tunnel, the cutting filled and a blockwall in place.

Once the cutting was filled, the view from a similar position was less inspiring.

Flooding at Devonshire Tunnels north portal, likely winter 1966-7.

Flooding at that point was in evidence shortly after the line closed. This photo most likely dates to winter 1966-7.

A tipper lorry delivery of materials to the work at the tunnel portal.

Another photo from Maple Grove Bridge, but from today, January 29th. Though the weather was clear, it was tipping it down. Thankfully not water though.

Work in progress in Bath's Linear Park at the Two Tunnels route's Devonshire Tunnel.

The current projected date for Devonshire Tunnel to reopen, according to a correspondent:

7th February 2025.

A photo from Maple Grove bridge shows various tasks under way. (Photo taken January 14th)

Hi, we've asked @bathnes.bsky.social if they have a revised completion date for the works.

The Devonshire Tunnel works to address flooding: we've discovered that the entrance to Linear Park from Bloomfield Road opens space is now closed for a week (from Monday 13th January). More shortly...

Sustrans are now on Bluesky, and also Sustrans Scotland.

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Pig-in-a-poke artwork out on display in Bath, 2008.

Pig-in-a-Poke, detail.

King Bladuds Pigs display in front of the Royal Crescent, Bath, October 2008.

Combe Down Tunnel: one element from the 'Passage' artwork by United Visual Artists, music by Mira Calix.

Galleries... do we count? We're a shared-use path with a tunnel or two: if the Stockholm metro didn't exist, the artwork in one of the tunnels might make it the longest gallery anywhere, ever.

Anyway, our 2008 fundraiser pigs....

Photos include 'Pig in a Poke' who's a bit #JaneAusten.

Two Tunnels route: notice at Devonshire Tunnel that the work to address the flooding will now close the route there until mid to late January.

The route remains closed at Devonshire Tunnel while works to address the flooding are completed. The reopening date has been set back and it's now expected that the tunnel will be reopened in mid to late January.