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Plans have been revealed for what promises to be London’s most spectacular underground tourist attraction ever: a $268 million transformation of a mile-long series of World War II tunnels into a ...
Some 30 meters (98 feet) below central London lies a mile-long network of tunnels that is set to be the UK capital’s glitziest new tourist attraction, according to the company that’s secured ...
The Williamson Tunnels are a series of extensive subterranean excavations in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England. They are thought to have been created under the direction of tobacco merchant, landowner and philanthropist Joseph Williamson between 1810 and 1840. Although popularly described as "tunnels", the majority comprise brick or ...
At the northern end, a tunnel connects to a shaft up to the former Trafalgar Square tube station (now merged with Charing Cross station), and to the BT deep level cable tunnels which were built under much of London during the Cold War. At the southern end, an 8 ft (2.4 m) diameter extension (Scheme 2845A) connects to a shaft under Court 6 of ...
Longest road tunnel in UK: 1934: Merseyside: Victoria Tunnel & Waterloo Tunnel: Railway: 3,254: 3,559: The Victoria and Waterloo tunnels - 2,475 metres (2,707 yd) and 862 metres (943 yd) - form a single tunnel divided by an air shaft, and having different names on each side of the shaft: 1849: Merseyside: Wapping Tunnel: Railway: 2,030: 2,220
The tunnels, which are a mile (1.6 km) long and tall enough in parts to fit a double-decker bus, lie under Holborn in central London. During the bombing raids, Londoners headed into underground ...
The full extent of the tunnels has not been explored as part of the site was split by a rail tunnel. The caves are believed to extend further than the currently visible area stretching to the south of the rail line. [18] The explored and mapped area covers over 1 acre (0.40 ha) and extends nearly as a far as Bristol General Hospital.
The tunnel has a 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed limit, enforced by SpeedCurb speed cameras above the carriageway at the tunnel entrances, exits and inside the tunnel. The Limehouse Link tunnel is notable for including slip roads to and from Westferry Road towards the eastern end of the twin tunnels.