and replaces the existing Thames Cable Tunnel which is more than 50 years old, having been built in 1969, and is coming to the end of its operational life. The project involves the construction of ...

Plans to upgrade a tunnel under the Thames, which is used for electricity infrastructure between Kent and Essex, have been submitted. If approved, the existing Thames Cable Tunnel, which links ...

There had been a number of different attempts to tunnel under the Thames, including one by British inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevethick in 1807, but all of them ended as failures.

The Lower Thames Crossing, a new road linking Kent and Essex, is one of Britain's leading economic infrastructure projects.

The experience of walking a workig railway tunnel. Image (C) Tim Sandle. Buried underneath the River Thames is the world’s first tunnel to be dug under a major (navigable) river. This was also ...

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 ...

The 14 mile project was first proposed in 2009, and would connect Kent and Essex through a road and tunnel beneath the River Thames to reduce congestion. Campaigners have reacted angrily to the ...

Campaigners opposed to the Silvertown tunnel claim that it has worsened traffic in south London – but TfL says Blackwall ...