Hindhead Tunnel A3
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Waugh-terfall said:
Are you serious?! That's ridiculous! What a farce!
Found out why it has been delayed. Im on standby to assist nextweek if there are further problems. But they are working 24hrs to sort everything outBut the tunnel will be open before the holiday season gets into full swing. The Tunnel was not officially opening until mid August so they are still ahead of programme.
PoleDriver said:
Rumour via local golf club says that the Hindhead tunnel openeing may be delayed till end of the month
because the celebrity due to cut the ribbon is 'otherwise engaged'!
Anybody heard anything different?
It's just the postman has only now delivered the invitation for me to cut the ribbonbecause the celebrity due to cut the ribbon is 'otherwise engaged'!
Anybody heard anything different?
By the time they get my reply yet another week will have gone past
motorbreath said:
Does anyone know when the old A3 around the devils punch bowl will close? I am asuming a couple of months after the tunnel is in full swing??? Will make getting across the Hindhead lights a joy on the way to work! :-D
The road will not close. It will stay open but will be reclassified. It will probably be used if h tunnel was closed for an emergency etc. The road will become the A333 and will only go as far as the punch bowl car park, the old A3 will be covered with soil and be return to nature with a single track road running from Thursley to the YMCA hostel ( this track is currently what the northbound traffic use to rejoin the main carriagway north of the punchbowl, you can see the passing places). The old A3 will close once the tunnel opens.
Landshark said:
The road will become the A333 and will only go as far as the punch bowl car park, the old A3 will be covered with soil and be return to nature with a single track road running from Thursley to the YMCA hostel ( this track is currently what the northbound traffic use to rejoin the main carriagway north of the punchbowl, you can see the passing places). The old A3 will close once the tunnel opens.
Which is what they did when the Weymouth Relief Road opened. Very PC, but if the tunnel is closed for some reason it's a very good diversion route gone.Johnnytheboy said:
Which is what they did when the Weymouth Relief Road opened. Very PC, but if the tunnel is closed for some reason it's a very good diversion route gone.
It was part of the planning consent for the tunnel.It's highly unlike the tunnel will be completely closed. There are two tunnels, if one is closed the other can be used for two way traffic although with a 40mph speed restriction.
NormanD said:
Don't forget there is still the old Portsmoth Road
As you head south round the Punch Bowl there is a track to the left, it rejoins the A3 just before the hotel
But that's now just a bumpy track that leads to a car park, unless you have a Land Rover.As you head south round the Punch Bowl there is a track to the left, it rejoins the A3 just before the hotel
And on that old Portsmouth Road, one is of course obliged to stop at the allegedly cursed Sailor's Stone, scene of the grisly murder for which 3 men were hanged at the Gibbet.
They met the sailor (he was travelling back to his ship in Portsmouth after spending shore leave in London) at The Three Horseshoes in Thursley. He bragged about his recently-made riches on far off lands, so the jealous men robbed and killed him at Hindhead, only to be caught at the Flying Bull in Rake (and subsequently hanged, as above). A gravestone was erected in his memory, which is still there today. Legend has it that if the stone were to be moved, those responsible would lose their lives. So when the new (current) A3 was made, and the road workers moved the stone about 10 yards up the hill, they all died in freak yachting accidents (probably).
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