{"id":1042,"date":"2010-03-12T20:26:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2010-03-13T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T19:22:10","slug":"a-walk-through-the-thames-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-walk-through-the-thames-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"A walk through the Thames Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Opened to the public for just two days this weekend, we were lucky enough to bag some tickets. Here&#8217;s a few photos from our trip.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/brunel-thames-tunnel-08.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A walk through the Thames Tunnel, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/brunel-thames-tunnel-09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A walk through the Thames Tunnel, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/brunel-thames-tunnel-14.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A walk through the Thames Tunnel, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/brunel-thames-tunnel-16.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A walk through the Thames Tunnel, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/brunel-thames-tunnel-25.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A walk through the Thames Tunnel, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More photos:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/brunel-thames-tunnel.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Thames Tunnel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,191],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-london","tag-tunnel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brunel-thames-tunnel-08.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-gO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}