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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{oscoor gbx|ST846690}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120719071845/http://www.networkrail.co.uk/VirtualArchive/box-tunnel/ Network Rail Virtual Archive: Box Tunnel], engineering drawings of tunnel * [http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/c/corsham/ Subterranea Britannica] entry on the Corsham bunkers * [http://www.ikbrunel.org.uk Brunel portal] * [http://www.xenophon.org.uk/box.html Tunnel does align, but 3 days before Brunel's birthday; however the sky is not visible through it], detailed analysis of the alignment * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/12/14/burlington_nuclear_bunker_feature.shtml Wiltshire's Secret Underground City: Burlington] Articles, interactive map and video tour from BBC Wiltshire * [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/10/isambard-kingdom-brunel-birthday-box-tunnel-bath-sun The light at the end of the tunnel.] How Brunel designed his memorial into the Box Tunnel, which is aligned with the sun on his birthday, 9 April. {{Brunel}} [[Category:Box, Wiltshire]] [[Category:Railway tunnels in England]] [[Category:Rail transport in Wiltshire]] [[Category:Tunnels in Wiltshire]] [[Category:Great Western Main Line]] [[Category:Great Western Railway]] [[Category:Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] [[Category:Tunnels completed in 1841]]
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