Tunnel Collection (page 2)

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

Napoleon at Boulogne
At Boulogne, he looks across the Channel and wishes there was a tunnel whereby he could invade England

The line into Leicester Station
Section showing the line into Leicester Station as at 17 Jul 1832 when the L&S Railway was opened and also showing the gradient for the extension whilst still under construction

Map, Surrey Docks, Bricklayers Arms and New Cross, London
Map, Surrey Commercial Docks, Bricklayers Arms and New Cross, SE London, with railway lines and junctions. 1908

Map, Millwall Docks (Harrow Lane) and Poplar, East London, with railway lines and links. Date: 1906

Tunnel connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead 1926
Diagram showing where the tunnel connecting Liverpool to Birkenhead would be, under the River Mersey. Spanning 44ft wide with two desks for vehicles only

Convair F-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507
Convair NF-106B-31-CO Delta Dart 57-2507 (msn 8-27-01) at NASA Lewis Research Center, Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH. registered as NASA 607 Built April 1958

Building the Paris Metro, France - Boulevard Saint-Andre. This tube at Saint-Michel was built above ground first and then literally sunk below street level after the tunnels were dug out. Date: 1907

Mount Pilatus Railway, Switzerland

Cut and cover, building the London Underground, Victorian period

Building the London Underground, Victorian period

An above ground London underground station, early 1900s

Laying railway tracks in the Severn Tunnel, 1930s maybe

Sappers tunnelling at Hill 60, Ypres, - WW1
Sappers tunnelling at Hill 60, Ypres, during the First World War

Salle Street Tunnel, Chicago, USA

La Salle Street Tunnel, Chicago - hand coloured when published - early 1900s

Woodhead Tunnel with Great Central railway locomotives - Victorian period

Woodhead Tunnel, Great Central Railway

The Kenmare Road Tunnel, Killarney, Ireland, Victorian period

WW2 - Tunnel From Calais
A front cover illustration for a WW2 children's story book, Tunnel From Calais, written by A. D. Divine. The image shows some soldiers looking out over a cliff edge. Date: 1942

Champagne cellars, Maison Ruinart, Reims, Marne, France
Steps down to the underground chalk cellars, or crayeres, where champagne is aged, at Maison Ruinart, the oldest champagne house in the world, founded in Epernay in 1729 by Nicolas Ruinart, in Reims

Tunnel Buses in the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Construction of the Queensway Mersey Tunnel
The Queensway tunnel is a road tunnel under the River Mersey, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. Construction began in 1925

Colosseum Archways 1818-1819
An architectural pencil drawing which looks down a tunnel of archways in the interior of the Colosseum in Rome, with a foreground of plant life. Date: circa 1818

Liverpool, Merseyside - The New Mersey Tunnel - Entrance Date: circa 1970

Liverpool, Merseyside - Queensway Mersey Tunnel
Liverpool, Merseyside - The Queensway (Birkenhead) Mersey Tunnel - Policeman standing by the roadside close to St. John's Gardens Entrance to the tunnel. Date: circa 1934

The Pilatus Railway - Approach to the Eselwand tunnel
The Pilatus Railway (Pilatusbahn, PB) - a mountain railway in Switzerland, the steepest rack railway in the world. Approach to the Eselwand tunnel. Date: 1902

Plans for the Thames tunnel (now known as the Dartford tunnel) connecting Kent and Essex. To stop congestion which was getting greater in central London Date: 1925

Subsidence of Railway Tunnel at Guildford, showing collapsed tunnel and buildings, with onlookers top left. From the section, Small Talk'. Date: 1895

Map of proposed railway Channel Tunnel, Dover to Calais Date: circa 1850

The Tube Railways of London - group photo of workmen, with greathead shield driving a station tunnel, the ends of the hydraulic rams pressing on flange of furthest ring Date: 1909

Price's rotary digger and greathead shield
Front view of Price's combined rotary digger and greathead shield with six revolving arms and removal buckets Date: 1909

Underground railway station under construction Date: 1909

Tunnelling for the London Underground Railway Date: 1923

Steam Railway locomotive C Class 0-6-0 No. 31166 Date: 1953

Photographs showing scenes after the Portuguese Revolution. Captioned, Sailors Guarding the Quelhas Convent, Searching for fugitive Priests in a newly discovered subterranean passage

Photograph of rail strike in France, with soldier and striking worker with rifles and bayonets, on railway line by signals, at the exit from a tunnel

Crowds of spectators came to see Prince and Princess of Wales (later George V and Mary of Teck) open the new Rotherhithe Tunnel, between Rotherhithe and Stepney. Date: 12th June 1908

Linking North and South London 1907
Diagram showing the proposed method the County Council are going to link north London to south. Connecting by tramway tunnel beneath the Wellington Street approach to Waterloo Bridge. Date: 1907

Diagram showing a proposed the never-stop train system described as electric cars mounted on tubular shaft along a continuous route in London. Date: 1911

Greenwich entrance of the foot tunnel designed by civil engineer Sir Alexander Binniel. Date: 1902

Channel Tunnel proprosals, 1985(pages 2-3)
Article from The Illustrated London News, November 1985, detailing four proposed plans for the construction of a Channel Tunnel. The fourth was revealed as an exclusive by the ILN. Page 2-3 of 6

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel, London 1908
Diagram plan of where the latest road tunnel under the River Thames, London is situated, linking Rotherhithe on the south west to Limehouse on the north east

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel - Burrowing Under the River Thames
Men working in dark conditions, topless due to the temperature in the eighties. Excavating the clay soil at the rate of about five feet per day

New tunnels for the Post Office Railway. 70ft beneath the ground near Oxford Street the nearly completed, double track line

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