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I love walking through tunnels, so here’s a few photos of my wander through the 1902 foot tunnel under the Thames.
Running from Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs, the 1,217 ft tunnel contains no less than 200, 000 white tiles…
Connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping, the Thames Tunnel was built between 1825 and 1843 by Marc Brunel and his son, the legendary Great Western railway engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Hailed in its day as the eighth wonder of the world, it was the first tunnel in the world to be constructed under a navigable river and is now regarded as one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century.
Opened to the public for just two days this weekend, we were lucky enough to bag some tickets. Here’s a few photos from our trip.
We originally tried to get a Clipper boat back into town after learning that the DLR system was suspended for maintenance work.
Despite being sold the ticket and informed that the next boat would be there in ’10 minutes,’ the queue stretched for some distance, and we learned that we’d be looking at a 45 minute wait minimum.
