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Inside the Thames Tunnel in the mid-19th century. The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping.It measures 35 ft (11 m) wide by 20 ft (6.1 m) high and is 1,300 ft (400 m) long, running at a depth of 75 ft (23 m) below the river surface measured at high tide.
Battersea steam tunnel Utility tunnel: Battersea, Pimlico: 20th century: Water pipe: Used to carry steam under the Thames to the Churchill Gardens estate. Battersea exhaust tunnels Utility tunnel: Battersea, Pimlico: 1920s: Two tunnels run under the Thames from the station and arrive on either side of Chelsea Bridge. London Power Tunnels ...
A tunnel is an underground passageway with no defined minimum length, though it may be considered to be at least twice as long as wide. Some government bodies define a tunnel as 150 metres (0.093 mi) in length or longer. [1] A tunnel may be for pedestrians or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or for ...
Tube railways, which caused less disruption because they were constructed by boring a tunnel, arrived in 1890, with the opening of the City and South London Railway, a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) line from Stockwell to King William Street. It was planned as a cable-hauled railway, but the advent of electric traction resulted in a simpler solution, and ...
Thames foot tunnel may refer to the following tunnels under the River Thames in London: Woolwich foot tunnel, between Woolwich and North Woolwich; Greenwich foot tunnel, between Greenwich and Millwall; Thames Tunnel, between Wapping and Rotherhithe, used as a pedestrian tunnel before 1869
The tunnel was authorised by the Thames Tunnel (Rotherhithe and Ratcliff) Act 1900. Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, the engineer for LCC, it copied closely the Blackwall Tunnel; however it is of larger diameter. At the time of its construction, the tunnel was said to be "the largest subaqueous tunnel in existence". [1]
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A tunnel was chosen due to the high costs of building an overhead transmission line at this point in the river. [2] In September 2023, National Grid announced that they were planning to retire the Thames Cable Tunnel, as it was approaching the end of its useful life. The Grain to Tilbury project aims to construct a new tunnel to replace it. [3]