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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS is the first of two 1,000 tonne tunnelling beasts that will be carving paths under the Thames for Crossrail’s link between Abbey Wood and central London. Colossal tunnel boring machine (TBM) ...

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 ...

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 ...