Tunnel Collection

Schlieren photograph of a Concorde model in a wind tunnel

The hollow head of the Sphinx, Egypt
Remarkable discoveries within the Sphinx: the temple within its hollow head. Professor G. A. Reisners interesting discoveries. A diagrammatic view of hidden temples and a stairway inside the Sphinx

Underground Tube Train
A Northern Line train on its way to Kennington, via Charing Cross emerges overground from a tunnel

A Miner Success by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" They must ave ad some good news or somethin, Alf; you can ear em cheerin quite plain." Two British Tommies, Bill and Alf

The Thames Tunnel between Wapping and Rotherhithe, designed and constructed by Marc Isambard Brunel. circa 1840s

The Ghost Train, travel on the thrills and laughter line
The Ghost Train, Do you feel like Nothing on Earth? Then there is an Express reason why you should see The Ghost Train with a real Bogey

Steam locomotive Sir Nigel Gresley, Welwyn Garden City
Steam locomotive 60007, Sir Nigel Gresley, near the Welwyn Garden City tunnel. It was built in 1937, and is still preserved today. Date: circa 1960s

Box Tunnel, Wilts
Isambard Kingdom Brunels famous Box Tunnel, Corsham, Wiltshire, took 5 years (1836- 41) to build. Two miles long, it was the longest railway tunnel in Europe when it opened

Brunels Thames Tunnel
Brunels Thames tunnel - the method of work, whereby a number of labourers could work side by side

Thames Tunnel entrance
A view of the entrance to the Wapping-Rotherhithe tunnel under the Thames, the worlds first underwater tunnel, completed by Marc Brunel in 1843

A biplane and a steam train
Speed on the rails and in the air. A biplane flying over a steam train - the London Express - about to disappear into a tunnel. Date: 1928

Rasselas and Imlac digging a tunnel
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, together with his companion, the wise man Imlac, digging a tunnel in order to escape the Happy Valley and see what life is like beyond it

Opening of the Mersey Tunnel - Liverpool Date: 1934

Regents Canal / Islington
Regents Canal East entrance at Islington tunnel

A London Underground platform at Bank station
An empty London Underground platform at Bank station, on the Northern Line. early 1930s

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales. Wearing only a T-shirt and hot pants she entered the tunnel at 60 mph

Largest Gasometer in the World - East Greenwich, London - built in 1888. Situated on the Greenwich peninsula, close to the site of the O2 Arena

Severn Tunnel Diver
The brave diver Alexander Lambert descending the shaft into the flooded tunnel. In Fleuss diving gear, he closed the headwall door and prevented further flooding

Tunnel and Sea Stack, Downhill, Co Londonderry - a view showing the railway line and tunnel, a sea stack to the left and the Mussenden Temple above (near the edge)

Settle to Carlisle Railway Tunnel, Baron Wood, Cumbria
Settle to Carlisle Railway Tunnel, Baron Wood, Armathwaite, Cumbria, England. Date: 1970s

Visit to Madeira - The Levada Tunnel
Black and white lantern slide of men being carried in hammocks out of the entrance of a tunnel built for a levada - an irrigation channel or aqueduct - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira

Hezekiahs Tunnel, Jerusalem
Hezekiahs Tunnel (Siloam Tunnel), Jerusalem, a subterranean channel cut through the rock, 533 metres long. It was designed as an aqueduct linking the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam. Date: 1920s

Firefighters at work in London Underground
Firefighters at work in the carriage of a London Underground train following an incident on 28 February 1975. The train had failed to stop at Moorgate station

Mine and Countermine by Heath Robinson
A tunnelling stand off between a British and German soldier with the German soldier eventually burrowing so deeply he falls out of the other side of the world. Date: 1915

Tube stations transformed by G. H. Davis
A Piccadilly Circus underground: tube stations transformed. The maze of London tubes: wonderful new junctions completed or in progress of construction. Date: 1927

Legging through Shrewley Tunnel Grand Union Canal
Legging, through, Shrewley, Tunnel, Grand, Union, Canal, Narowboat, Inland, Waterways, Watercolour, painting, Alan, Firth, 12021638

CORNISH RIVIERA TRAIN
The Cornish Riviera is hauled by a King class locomotive of the Great Western Railway. Date: 1930s?

Tunnel on the Kenmare Road, Killarney - a view of a tunnel hewn through rock to a jaunting car on the other side. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Kerry: Killarney). Date: circa early 1900s

Clayton Tunnel, Clayton, Sussex
Clayton Tunnel, Clayton, Hassocks, near Brighton, Sussex, England. London and Brighton Railway Date: 1910s

Gloster SS19B, J9125, suspended in the 24ft wind tunnel ?
Gloster SS19B, J9125, suspended in the 24ft wind tunnel at the RAE Farnborough

Trieste, Italy - Galleria di Montuzza, Piazza Carlo Goldini. Date: circa 1910

A 1 / 40 scale model of the airship Akron
A 1/40 scale model of the airship Akron in the Full-Scale wind tunnel at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics Laboratories at Langley Field, Virginia, USA, in January 1935. Date: 1935

Bristol Bulldog TM K3183 with Napier Rapier I engine
Bristol Bulldog TM, K3183, fitted with a Napier Rapier I engine, suspended in the 24ft wind tunnel at the RAE Farnborough

Wye Valley Railway
Tintern Abbey, and the south entrance to a short tunnel alongside the River Wye on the Wye Valley Railway, opened in October 1876 Date: October 1876

Railway Tunnel House
A quirky house, built over a railway tunnel at Clayton, Sussex, England. Date: early 1930s

Tunnel construction, Great Western Railway, South Wales
Tunnel construction taking place on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales

Thames Tunnel
View of the newly opened Thames Tunnel, linking Wapping and Rotherhithe in London. circa 1840s

Maida Hill Tunnel, Regents Canal, Little Venice 1885
Maida Hill Tunnel on the Regents Canal in 1885, Little Venice area of London Date: 1885

Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Boylston Street (viewed from Arlington Street), Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1915

Kilsby Tunnel 1837
The building of Kilsby tunnel, part of the Midland Railway. Date: 8 July 1837

LCC-MFB East Greenwich fire station, SE London
Built by the London County Council in 1902, East Greenwich fire station still stands at 2 Tunnel Avenue SE10. The station was closed in 1985 when the new East Greenwich fire station was opened

Hulluch underground system 1918
Hulluch underground system known as Charing Cross near Loos. The 3rd Australian Tunnel Company engaged in defensive work on the Western Front in France during World War I in January 1918

Bramhope Tunnel Card
A passenger train of the North-Eastern Railway emerges from Bramhope Tunnel

Sappers & Miners / Hill 60
Sappers and miners of the Royal Engineers drive a tunnel under Hill 60 at Ypres, obliterated by a mine fired by the British in April 1915

William Low, surveyor and civil engineer. Low formed the Channel Tunnel Company and was the first to make realistic plans for the construction of a tunnel

Californian redwood tree, 1888
Engraving showing a cowboy and horse pass through a tunnel in a giant redwood tree, California, 1888

Invasion Plan / Tunnel
When Napoleon contemplates an attack on England, a tunnel beneath the Channel is one of his options, though it is unlikely he seriously considers it

Boring a Tunnel
A massive boring machine is used to tunnel through a rock face

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