The vertical entry shaft to the Thames ... 1865 the tunnel was bought by the East London Railway and the shaft became a flue for smoke from steam trains, which still blackens the brick.

But the Thames Tunnel Commission favours a shorter tunnel with "greener" options for preventing rain water entering the sewage system Thames Water said it would study the findings of the ...

A multi-billion pound plan to build a tunnel under the River Thames that will cut through mudflats and marshes has been criticised by the RSPB. Metrotidal Ltd, which is heading an engineering ...

Last year Thames Water said a tunnel in the river may solve the problem. But the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the tunnel could take 15 years to build. The longer ...

The 6.9-kilometer-long tunnel, which feeds the city’s main treatment plant at Beckton, is a key element in a multibillion-dollar Thames Water ... the team dismantled, brick by brick, the 27 ...

Known officially as the Thames Tideway Tunnel, it has been designed to reduce the amount of raw sewage that flows into the river. The 16 mile (25km) long pipe will divert 34 of the most polluting ...

The 20-mile (32km) Thames Tunnel would run from west to east London collecting sewage discharge triggered by rainfall. Thames Water says 2,869 people provided feedback over its plans. Of those who ...

Plans for a new Thames tunnel that could give a huge boost to our region's economy have been firmed up by Highways England. The planned new road linking the M25 in Essex and the M2 in Kent will ...

March 25, 1843, the first tunnel constructed under a river was opened to the (paying) public. After eighteen years of work, the 1,300 feet long Thames Tunnel ... thin walls of brick and concrete ...

But the Thames Tunnel Commission favours a shorter tunnel with "greener" options for preventing rain water entering the sewage system Thames Water said it would study the findings of the ...