Thursday 16 February 2012


Tunnels  under the Thames- The Thames Tunnel 1843 (No.1)

London has twenty tunnels under the River Thames making it one of the most tunnelled cities in the world.  Lets take a look at how they developed over the years. No.1 The Thames Tunnel.

Thames Tunnel 1843
Built in 1843 by Marc Brunel for Rail.
The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel built beneath the River Thames in London. United Kingdom, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping.  It measures 35 feet (11 m) wide by 20 feet (6 m) high and is 1,300 feet (396 m) long, running at a depth of 75 feet (23 m) below the river's surface (measured at high tide). It was the first tunnel known successfully to have been constructed underneath a navigable river, and was built between 1825 and 1843 using Thomas Cochrane and Marc Isambard Brunel’s newly invented tunnelling shield technology, by him and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel.


Worth a Visit Brunel Museum



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