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This is a list of tunnels in Africa.
Existing
Algeria
about 46 railway tunnels
[1]
Ghana
Ghana Railway Corporation Decree of 1977 presupposes tunnels
[2]
Mauritania
Morocco
South Africa
Chapman's Peak Drive - Half Tunnel ,
Cape Town - M6.
Cogmanskloof Tunnel ,
Western Cape -
R62 .
Hartbeespoort Tunnel ,
North-West -
R104 .
Hendrik Verwoerd Tunnels ,
Limpopo on the
N1 .
Hex River Tunnels - Railway tunnels through the Hex River Mountains of the Western Cape Province.
Huguenot Tunnel - a toll road tunnel near
Paarl , also on the N1.
J.G. Strijdom Tunnel ,
Mpumalanga -
R36 .
Kowyns Pass - Half Tunnel ,
Mpumalanga -
R533 .
Lang's nek Tunnel ,
KwaZulu Natal - a disused railway tunnel between Newcastle and Charlstown.
Old Van Reenen Tunnel ,
KwaZulu Natal - just off the
N3 - S 28° 22.272 E 029° 25.782.
Daspoort Tunnel - Daspoort Tunnel is a road tunnel on the
R55 in Pretoria.
Overvaal Tunnel (Oogies)
Watervalboven Tunnel ,
Mpumalanga - on the
N4 .
Kouga dam wall tunnel ,
Eastern Cape - just off the R332.
Eritrea
outside Keren. But it appears that for some reason they didn't think of blowing up the rail tunnels on the Agordat-Keren line
Tanzania
Tunisia
Zambia
Proposed
Guinea
21 km of tunnel(s) on proposed
Simandou iron ore railway.
Morocco
Tunisia
Finance
Tunnels are expensive to build compared to surface tracks, especially for long tunnels due to limited access to the work site. The London cross city tunnel is reckoned at UKP 68m per km.
Expedience
See also
References
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