Two Tunnels Greenway

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Devonshire Tunnel closure to early December 2024: Diversion Route

Here's a turn by turn diversion route to use while Devonshire Tunnel is closed to allow the work to improve its drainage completes.

Southbound:

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• From Linear Park, take the smaller path, on the right hand side, that branches off at an angle before you pass Maple Grove Bridge (before Devonshire Tunnel).
• At the top of the path, turn right for a few metres and at Hensley Road, left to climb the hill to Bloomfield Road.
• Dog leg across Bloomfield Road, right then left onto St Lukes Road. Along St Lukes Road to its junction with Wellsway.
• At Wellsway, use the signal controlled crossing and then, down the short 'Hatfield Road East'.
• Another dogleg as you cross Entry Hill, left onto Entry Hill then right into Greenway Lane.
• Follow Greenway Lane: be alert at the point where the lane veers right and descends, that's your cue to look for its junction with Lyncombe Vale Road, turn right into Lyncombe Vale Road.
• Lyncombe Vale Road descends, be alert to the point at which it runs in a hairpin to the left with a junction on the outside of the hairpin. Take the junction - you'll follow a continuation of Lyncombe Vale Road and will be climbing once more.
• You'll come to the viaduct, where the road ends. Continue on the path beneath the viaduct and immediately turn left, the path running up beside the embankment returns you to the Two Tunnels route where you can proceed towards Combe Down Tunnel.

Northbound:

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• Leave Combe Down Tunnel, cross the little viaduct outside the tunnel and then beneath the arch bridge above the route, be alert to the path that leaves the route on the left and that runs down between the embankment and the wood.
• At its end, do not pass beneath the viaduct, make your way along the footpath which continues in the same direction roughly parallel to the route. If you're on a bike, walk this length. Keep on this footpath and it will bring you out at a minor road called Lyncombe Lane.
• Turn right and follow the minor road round a few metres to its junction with Entry Hill. At the junction with Entry Hill, turn right, and, on the left in a few hundred metres take the short road 'Hatfield Road East' to Wellsway.
• At Wellsway, cross the dual carriageway using the pelican crossing, and down to the junction with St Lukes Road.
• Down St Lukes Road to the junction with Bloomfield Road. There, turn right. Cross Bloomfield Road and look for Hensley Road (it's the second left), turn left into Hensley Road.
• Down Hensley Road - Linear Park is ahead of you but behind the fence - you're above the tunnel mouth. Follow Hensley Road road round a couple of bends, first to the left and then to the right, you need to be going downhill at this point on Egerton Road. Opposite Egerton Road's junction with Chantry Mead Road, and on your right, look for a small no through road. Along that, and before the old road over rail bridge, the path down to the left will take you back on to the Two Tunnels route.

Bellotts Somerset and Dorset Intersect Bridge

Bellotts Bridge carries the Two Tunnels route over the Great Western Main Line. The bridge was closed in September 2015 for work to demolish and replace its centre arch with a structure that has sufficient headroom to allow electrification of the Great Western Main Line. The structure reopened on January 31st 2017.

Early 2016, and a view of the Somerset and Dorset Railway bridge, the south side arch supported by concrete infill, the bridge's centre arch removed. Find more photos of the work at the Two Tunnels Bath photostream on Flickr.

Another view from early 2016: the truncated bridge's north side arch. In the background, Burnham Road.

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