Funded by private investors, the project to build the Thames Tunnel began on March 2 1825, with the first stone being laid at the Rotherhithe shaft entrance. Little did they know that there was ...

The 1.4km-long Silvertown Tunnel, which stretches under the River Thames from Newham to Greenwich ... a conical form sat on a green-landscaped brick plinth above the tunnel entrance. Clad in ...

It will run adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel, built in the Victorian era, which takes drivers from near the O2 Arena under the River Thames to the East India Dock Road in Blackwall. The Silvertown ...

Plans for a £9 billion road tunnel linking Kent and Essex have been formally approved by the government. The long-mooted Lower Thames Crossing, which would feature a 14.5-mile road including a 2. ...

Hundreds of protesting cyclists ride through Silvertown Tunnel in ‘mass trespass’ - Campaigners say first new road crossing ...

Motorists started to use the Silvertown Tunnel for the first time on Monday – with car drivers paying up to £4 to use the first new road crossing under the Thames for 58 years. London mayor Sir ...