South Eastern Main Line: Mobile Broadband

(asked on 13th July 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15380 on South Eastern Main Line: Mobile Broadband, what the names and locations are of the (a) 57 railway tunnels and (b) 12 Network Rail-managed stations included in the current phase of Project Reach.


Answered by
Keir Mather Portrait
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 4th August 2026

The 12 Network Rail-managed stations included in the current phase of Project Reach are Birmingham New Street, Bristol Temple Meads, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, London Euston, London King’s Cross, London Liverpool Street, London Paddington, London Waterloo and Manchester Piccadilly.

The locations of the 57 tunnels included in the programme are located on the East Coast, West Coast, Great Western, Thameslink, Kent, North West and Wales.

The full list of tunnels is as follows –

Tunnel

1

Ardsley Tunnel

2

Potters Bar East Tunnel

3

Potters Bar West Tunnel

4

Wood Green Centre Tunnel

5

Wood Green East Tunnel

6

Wood Green West Tunnel

7

Barnet West Tunnel

8

Barnet East Tunnel

9

Barnet Centre Tunnel

10

Hadley Wood South East Tunnel

11

Hadley Wood South West Tunnel

12

Beechwood Tunnel

13

Polperro Tunnel

14

Buckshead Tunnel

15

Farnworth Tunnel (Up Line)

16

Farnworth Tunnel (Down Line)

17

Clerkenwell No. 1 Tunnel

18

Copenhagen Centre Tunnel

19

Copenhagen West Tunnel

20

Gasworks Centre Tunnel

21

Gasworks West Tunnel

22

Ludgate Tunnel

23

Harecastle New Tunnel

24

Primrose Hill Slow Lines Tunnel

25

Primrose Hill Fast Lines Tunnel

26

Kensal Green Fast Lines Tunnel

27

Kensal Green Slow Lines Tunnel

28

Kilsby Tunnel

29

Stowe Hill Tunnel

30

Linslade Up Slow Tunnel

31

Linslade Centre Bore (Up Fast / Down Slow)

32

Linslade Down Fast Tunnel

33

Macclesfield Tunnel

34

Prestbury Tunnel

35

Marley Tunnel

36

Monument Lane Tunnel

37

New Street North Western Lines Tunnel

38

New Street Midland Lines Tunnel

39

Newport New Tunnel

40

Newport Old Tunnel

41

Northchurch Fast Line Tunnel

42

Northchurch Up Slow Tunnel

43

Northchurch Down Slow Tunnel

44

Parsons Tunnel

45

Patchway Up New Tunnel

46

Shugborough Tunnel

47

Sodbury Tunnel

48

Alderton Tunnel

49

Peascliffe Tunnel

50

Stoke Tunnel

51

Treverin Tunnel

52

Watford Tunnel Slow Lines

53

Watford Tunnel Fast Lines

54

Welwyn North Tunnel

55

Welwyn South Tunnel

56

Whiteball Tunnel

57

Wiveliscombe Tunnel

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