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| Country | Tunnel | Length | Canal | Year of construction | Comment |
| France | Le Rove | 7 120 m | Marseilles - Rh�ne | 1911 - 1925 |  Closed in 1963 |
| France | "Le Grand Souterrain" |
5 677 m | de St. Quentin |
1802 - 1810 | Near Riqueval north east of Paris |
| England | Standedge | 5 210 m | Huddersfield Narrow |
1794 - 1811 | 2.4 m wide, 5.2 m high, 2.4 m water dept. Fully restored and opened to public in April 2001. 3 parallel railway tunnels |
| France | de Mauvages | 4 970 m | de la Marne au Rhin Ouest |
1838 - 1853 | Approx. 50 km west of Nancy |
| France | Balesmes | 4 800 m | de la Marne � la Sa�ne | Near Langres, approx 60 km north of Dijon | |
| France | Ruyalcourt | 4 354 m | du Nord | ||
| England | Strood |
3 595 m | Thames & Medway | 1819 - 1824 | Railway since 1844 |
| England | Lapal | 3 570 m | Dudley No. 2 | 1798 | 9 feet wide and 9 feet high above water line. Unstable horse-shoe-profile. Closed to navigation by roof fall in 1917 |
| England | Sapperton |
3 488 m | Thames &
Severn |
1784 - 1789 | Reopened 21.09.1996 |
| France | Pouilly-en-Auxois | 3 333 m | de Bourgogne | 1825 - 1832 | Approx 35 km west of Dijon |
| England | Dudley |
2 884 m | Dudley No. 1 | 1785 - 1792 | |
| England | The New Dudley |
Dudley | 1988 - 1990 | ||
| England | Blisworth |
2 794 m | Grand Union |
1805 | |
| England | Netherton |
2 768 m | Netherton Branch | 1855 - 1858 | Birmingham. Reopened to navigation: 17.04.1984 |
| England | Harecastle |
2 675 m | Trent & Mersey |
1824 - 1827 | The "new" tunnel on Grand Trunk |
| England | Harecastle | 2 650 m | Trent & Mersey | 1766 - 1777 | 9 feet wide. Abandoned after 50 years |
| England | Norwood |
2 633 m | Chesterfield Canal | 1771 - 1775 | Roof collapse in 1907 |
| England | Wast Hills |
2 492 m | Worcester & Birmingham |
1791 - 1815 | Also named Kings Norton tunnel |
| France | ? | 2 400 m | de l'Oise � l'Aisne | 10 km south of Laon | |
| France | d'Arzviller | 2 306 m | de la Marne au Rhin | 1838 - 1853 | East of Sarrebourg |
| England | Oxenhall |
2 000 m | Herefordshire & Gloucestershire | 1793 - 1798 | Gloucester - Ledbury section. Closed 1865 |
| England | Braunston |
1 867 m | Grand Union |
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| Norway | Stad |
1 790 m | Stad | Project | |
| England | Foulridge summit | 1 500 m | Leeds &
Liverpool |
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| France | ? | 1 400 m | de Morge | 20 km southeast of Troyes | |
| England | Crick | 1 394 m | Grand Union |
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| France | Ch�rimont | 1 330 m | de la Haute-Sa�ne | Ronchamp - Essert (Belfort) | |
| Belgium | Seneffe |
1 282 m | Old Charleroi | 1882 - 1885 | |
| France | ? | 1 200 m | de l'Aisne � la Marne | Southeast of Reims | |
| England | Preston Brook | 1 133 m | Trent & Mersey |
The Grand Trunk | |
| England | Greywell | 1 124 m | 400 feet below Greywell Hill. Closed | ||
| France | Tronquoy | 1 097 m | de St. Quentin | 1795 - 1803 | "Le Petit Souterrain" |
| England | Husband's Bosworth | 1 066 m | Grand Union |
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| France | Panneterie | 1 000 m | du Nord | Between Ham and Noyon |
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