How Sydney's 'first' harbour tunnel has been forgotten
As Sydney faces the construction of twin tunnels under Sydney Harbour for the Metro line, the story of the "first" Sydney Harbour tunnel built about a century ago remains largely forgotten.
Amazing story I bet many are not aware of this tunnel. If constantly flooded then how could it really be if any use ?New news to the Facebookers but common knowledge to most others.
How Sydney's 'first' harbour tunnel has been forgotten
The harbour bridge, gladesville bridge and burns bay road bridges would do everything that this tunnel was for these days. Forget about re using it for anything today because it would be too steep, too dangerous and too wet.Try doing some BASIC research.
The harbour bridge, gladesville bridge and burns bay road bridges would do everything that this tunnel was for these days. Forget about re using it for anything today because it would be too steep, too dangerous and too wet.Try doing some BASIC research.
It is/was a couple of man sized tunnel for running electrical cables under the harbour way back last century.
There is also another tunnel (sort of) from Balmain across to the coal loader at Wollestonecraft (I think) which is the horizontal shaft of a coal mine that went under the harbour.I seem to have a recollection that this tunnel was being used as a gas reserve?
There is also another tunnel (sort of) from Balmain across to the coal loader at Wollestonecraft (I think) which is the horizontal shaft of a coal mine that went under the harbour.You may be thinking of the Balmain Colliery which produced coal from 1897 until 1931, and natural gas until 1945. It was not connected to the coal loader at Balls Head. The latter had its own internal tunnels.
This is a very interesting article.Was this before or since the present Harbour Tunnel was built ?
Would be useful for telecommunications services when I looked at running fibre from Sydney to North Sydney there were not a lot of options other than to drop in on the harbour floor.
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