Laborers working at the face of the Thames Tunnel were protected by Marc Brunel's newly-invented "Shield"; behind them, other gangs hurried to roof the tunnel before the river could burst in.

A project to build a road tunnel under the Thames Estuary has become Britain’s biggest planning application at 359,000 pages long with 2,383 separate documents. The disclosures about the amount of red ...

Construction enabling works for the Lower Thames Crossing, set to become the largest tunnel in Europe, has been scheduled to begin in late 2025. The 2.6-mile tunnel beneath the River Thames, greenlit ...

Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames opened as a public walkway in 1843.Thames Tunnel peep show, 1843 Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc ...

Cyclists will be able to use a shuttle service when using a new £2.2bn tunnel under the River Thames when it opens next month, Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed. Opening on 7 April, the ...

The fate of Britain's biggest road scheme hangs in the balance after ministers delayed giving it the go ahead - despite over £800m being spent on it to date. The government said it needed more time to ...

More than a million trees will be planted as part of a new road tunnel scheme under the River Thames, Government roads agency National Highways has said. A community woodland and two public parks are ...

While the Tideway super sewer project, following the River Thames through the heart of London, is a British endeavor, the contracting team is very multinational. Even though the United Kingdom is ...

Andy Triggs Hodge, a gold medal-winning rower at the Beijing and London Olympics, stopped training on Britain’s most famous river when it turned out water wasn’t his biggest obstacle: raw sewage on ...

An international consortium of contractors and financiers has won one of the U.K.'s last privately financed infrastructure projects, covering the $1.3-billion Silvertown highway tunnel under the River ...