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This is a disused 330 yds long single bore and single track tunnel. Construction was completed in January 1829 at a cost of £5000. The line passed under the eastern part of Dundee Law in a tunnel. To the south was the Law Incline which dropped down to Dundee Ward Road. It was troublesome to build and had to be lined in brick.

There was an engine house at the top of the Law Incline, at south end of the tunnel.

There were halts at either end of the tunnel. At the south end, by the engine house, was Top of Law, the temporary first terminus dating from 1831 before Ward Road opened in 1832. It was somewhat precariously positioned at the head of the Law Incline. The halt may have had some use until 1846. At the north end was Offset at Back of Law which served the Offset at Back of Law Workshops.

With the opening of the Law Deviation in 1861 (one of the Dundee and Newtyle Deviations (Dundee and Perth Railway)) the tunnel was abandoned.

As with the Scotland Street Tunnel in Edinburgh, the tunnel became a mushroom farm owned by the same Scottish Mushroom Company after closure.

It was used as an air raid shelter in the Second World War.

The entrances are now stopped up at either end.

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