redcliff tunnel

The Redcliffe tunnel portal and the railway cutting to the right of the Ostrich Inn are important legacies of Bristol’s industrial past. The double track of mixed broad and standard gauge railway line from docks to Temple Meads was carried by a bascule bridge close to the Ostrich, a bridge that was actually wider than it was long and operated by a stationary steam engine. When the line closed in 1964, this engine was removed to the Industrial Museum (now M Shed). The steam engine had a secondary function, which was to assist manoeuvring large boats using the Basin both through the lock past the open bascule bridge and alongside the working quays. This was done by ropes threaded round the wheels that are still located on the quay edge by Lower Guinea street.

The railway cutting and tunnel were the work of Charles Richardson, an engineer who shaped the railways of the South West for Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Richardson was the instigator and chief engineer for the Severn Tunnel, which was an enormous feat of engineering, and the world’s longest underwater tunnel for over 100 years. Incidentally, Richardson also invented the modern-day cricket bat in the 1880s, and Brunel expressed his displeasure at Richardson sometimes becoming distracted by his interest in cricket.

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