London Overground map from 2007 (Image: TfL) For the first three years of the London Overground, the East London line was shut while an extension was built. As a Tube line, most services ran between ...

It is also the only tunnel under the Thames through which cycling is permitted (though not many brave the fumes). You can also walk through it. Nobody ever does this twice.

King Charles has told workers at the Thames Tideway Tunnel a "humongous horror" of rain is bound to fall. He was responding to the information the "super sewer" worked better when it rained, as he ...

The tunnel is 7.2m in diameter, the equivalent of three London double-decker buses, and needed four giant tunnelling machines to excavate the main pipe. During his visit, Charles met poet Dorothea ...

Motorists started to use the Silvertown Tunnel for the first time on Monday – with car drivers paying up to £4 to use the first new road crossing under the Thames for 58 years. London mayor Sir ...

It will run adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel, built in the Victorian era, which takes drivers from near the O2 Arena under the River Thames to the East India Dock Road in Blackwall.

TfL have said the new tunnel will offer new routes for more people, as around 21 buses are set to travel through it every hour from 7am til 7pm, Monday to Friday. There will also be a dedicated ...

Britain gave the green light on Tuesday to a new 10-billion-pound ($13 billion) road tunnel for the River Thames in southeast England, in its latest backing for an infrastructure project to help ...

The Thames Tideway Tunnel, referred to as a 'super sewer' was a £4.5 billion mega project that spans 15 miles from West to East London. By Grace Piercy, News Reporter, Liam Gilliver ...

Then came the first-ever underwater tunnel, the Thames Tunnel, which took a whopping 18 years to build and was opened to the public in 1843.

As pointed out by pro-growth campaign group Britain Remade, the planning fee alone is more than twice the cost it took Norway to actually build the longest road tunnel in the world.

The concept of tunnels was first executed in the year 1843 when the first underwater tunnel was constructed to connect the north and south bank of the River Thames in London. After a lot of hardship ...