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orudge wrote:Just happened to come across this tunnel under the A96, which looks like it may be on a private road, but Google has driven through it anyway. Perhaps it's just the nature of the "tube" but it looks pretty tight!
It's a farm access which has been maintained when the road has been built. There a quite a few buried tube underpasses on the A9, some of which are being replaced with full height (>5m) structures under the new dual carriageway, to allow accesses off the A9 to be stopped up.
cmjones01 wrote:I'm not sure how low this one is. It was once a bypass for a railway level crossing in Cambridge, but now it only serves foot and cycle traffic, and the railway is now a guided busway. I'm told it used to carry two lanes of traffic though it's hard to believe. It's certainly very low and feels like you're going to bang your head when cycling through it. It's hard to get a good view from Google because the approach ramps are long and shallow.
There was a low bridge and parallel level crossing at Meadow Lane, St.Ives where it crossed the St.Ives-March railway - heavily used by quarry traffic - when the local gravel company bought single-cab Fodens, they wouldn't fit under the bridge so delayed every journey at the level crossing which was normally close to road traffic - they had the cabs cut down to fit under the bridge but drivers complained about head injuries on the bumpy parts of the quarry so they had the roofs raised again - as a 16 year old, it was my chance to drive a 4-axle truck along the yard where the modifications were being carried out.
At 5' 9" high this standard gauge steam locomotive was built to cope with an overbridge almost as low as the OP!
I'm delighted to say that I've fired this loco but as I'm 6' 3" it was a mercifully brief stint.
Canal Towpath bridges can be interesting, when I was cycling along the Bridgewater canal I found myself having to
a) run almost on the edge
b) flatten myself against the bars
c) hope no one was coming the other way
Which was a bit daft as with a bit of thought Sustrans and the canal authority could have put road/track crossings in at each bridge.
I encountered this one in Redditch. It's not as low as most of the examples on here but it's perhaps the nastiest because it's on a hill so gets lower providing the possibility of thinking you can get through but getting stuck on the way out!
the cheesecake man wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 13:43
I encountered this one in Redditch. It's not as low as most of the examples on here but it's perhaps the nastiest because it's on a hill so gets lower providing the possibility of thinking you can get through but getting stuck on the way out!
Wait - it's a one way street but you must not proceed if you're over that height?!
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the cheesecake man wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 13:43
I encountered this one in Redditch. It's not as low as most of the examples on here but it's perhaps the nastiest because it's on a hill so gets lower providing the possibility of thinking you can get through but getting stuck on the way out!
Wait - it's a one way street but you must not proceed if you're over that height?!
Err yes I hadn't though of that. Presumably you'd be let off reversing a few yards to turn round or turn left.
the cheesecake man wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 13:43
I encountered this one in Redditch. It's not as low as most of the examples on here but it's perhaps the nastiest because it's on a hill so gets lower providing the possibility of thinking you can get through but getting stuck on the way out!
Wait - it's a one way street but you must not proceed if you're over that height?!
Err yes I hadn't though of that. Presumably you'd be let off reversing a few yards to turn round or turn left.
If a driver can't see those signs in time to react (by taking the left turn) in what I'm assuming to be a 30 limit then I'm not sure they should be driving.
Also, there is an advanced warning sign further back down the hill.
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the cheesecake man wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 13:43
I encountered this one in Redditch. It's not as low as most of the examples on here but it's perhaps the nastiest because it's on a hill so gets lower providing the possibility of thinking you can get through but getting stuck on the way out!
Wait - it's a one way street but you must not proceed if you're over that height?!
It's only one way after the one way signs, which are on the same pole as the height restriction signs so you could turn round before it. Given the layout of the junction and the very short distance between the left turn and the signs though realistically you're not going to drive all the way up to the signs before spotting them.
the cheesecake man wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 13:43
I encountered this one in Redditch. It's not as low as most of the examples on here but it's perhaps the nastiest because it's on a hill so gets lower providing the possibility of thinking you can get through but getting stuck on the way out!
Wait - it's a one way street but you must not proceed if you're over that height?!
It's only one way after the one way signs, which are on the same pole as the height restriction signs so you could turn round before it. Given the layout of the junction and the very short distance between the left turn and the signs though realistically you're not going to drive all the way up to the signs before spotting them.
The bridge itself is visible from quite a distance away as well.
I knew it from my childhood days. Went through it recently and terrified the wife (and myself) - modern cars are much larger than the family Austin 1100!
Indeed - it's signed from a distance back. I particularly like the warning at this junction where you're caught between a rock and a hard place if you're driving something really tall... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.86048 ... 312!8i6656
