Tunnel Collection (page 10)

Entrance to Bankhead Tunnel, Mobile, Alabama, USA
Entrance to the Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile, Alabama, USA. It is a road tunnel which was built under the Mobile River and opened in February 1941. Date: 1941

Junkers RI wind tunnel model

Settle-Carlisle Railway - Train emerging from Blea Moor Tunnel (south portal), near Dent/Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1970s

Settle-Carlisle Railway - Looking towards Blea Moor Tunnel (north portal), near Dent/Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1970s

Settle-Carlisle Railway - Above Blea Moor Tunnel, Yorkshire
Settle-Carlisle Railway - Above Blea Moor Tunnel, near Dent/Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England. Showing some blockwork remains Date: 1970s

Settle-Carlisle Railway Tunnel, Blea Moor, Yorkshire
Settle-Carlisle Railway Tunnel, Blea Moor, near Dent/Horton in Ribblesdale, Yorkshire, England. Showing the downline view from the top of the south portal Date: 1970s

Settle-Carlisle Railway Tunnel, Rise Hill, Cumbria
Settle-Carlisle Railway Tunnel, Rise Hill, Dent, near Sedburgh/Hawes, Cumbria, England. Showing the South Portal Date: 1970s

Construction Work, Seacombe, Cheshire
Construction Work, Seacombe, Wallasey, near Liverpool, Cheshire, England. Showing construction of the Kingsway Tunnel ventilation shaft Date: 1960s

Waterloo Road, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Showing construction of the Wallasey Tunnel ventilation shaft Date: 1960s

Seacombe Promenade, Seacombe, Cheshire
Seacombe Promenade, Seacombe, Wallasey, near Liverpool, Cheshire, England. Showing construction of the Kingsway Tunnel ventilation shaft Date: 1960s

Settle to Carlisle Railway Tunnel - North Portal, Rise Hill, Cumbria, England. Date: 1970s

Settle to Carlisle Railway Pitched Waterway, Cumbria
Settle to Carlisle Railway Pitched Waterway, Thought to be near Rise Hill Tunnel, Cumbria, England. Date: 1970s

Settle to Carlisle Railway Tunnel (South Portal), Armathwaite, Carlisle, near Wetheral, Cumbria, England. Date: 1970s

Railway Tunnel South Entrance, Merstham, Surrey
Railway Tunnel South Entrance, Merstham, near Redhill, Surrey, England. Captioned The Merstham Mystery after the discovery of the body of Mary Sophia Money in the tunnel in September 1905 Date: 1905

Ventilation Shaft - Kilsby Tunnel, Kilsby, Northamptonshire
Ventilation Shaft - Kilsby Tunnel, Kilsby, near Rugby, Northamptonshire, England. London & North Western Railway Date: 1905

Steam Locomotive Exiting the Connaught Tunnel, Mount MacDonald, British Colombia, Canada. Canadian Pacific Railway - Showing the East Portal Date: 1937

Canal Tunnel Entrance, Dudley, Worcestershire
Canal Tunnel Entrance, Dudley, near Netherton, Worcestershire, England. Date: 1970s

Derelict Tunnel Structures, Thought to be at Dudley, Worcest
Derelict Tunnel Structures, Thought to be at Dudley, near Birmingham, Worcestershire, England. Date: 1970s

The Mersey Tunnel when New, Liverpool, Lancashire
The Mersey Tunnel when New, Liverpool, near Birkenhead, Lancashire, England. Date: 1930s

The Tunnel, Woolwich, London
The Tunnel, Woolwich, Eltham, County of London, England. Underground Railway Date: 1900s

Commemorative Plaque, Dudley, Worcestershire
Commemorative Plaque, Dudley, near Netherton, Worcestershire, England. Taken around the re-opening of the Dudley Tunnel Date: 1973

The Dudley Canal, Dudley, Worcestershire
The Dudley Canal, Dudley, near Netherton, Worcestershire, England. Taken around the re-opening of the Dudley Tunnel Date: 1973

Park Head Viaduct & Locks, Dudley, Worcestershire
Park Head Viaduct & Locks, Dudley, near Netherton, Worcestershire, England. Taken around the re-opening of the Dudley Tunnel Date: 1973

Park Head Locks, Dudley, Worcestershire
Park Head Locks, Dudley, near Netherton, Worcestershire, England. Taken around the re-opening of the Dudley Tunnel Date: 1973

Sunday Work in the Tunnel of a Great Main Line, Matania
Labour and railway efficiency: Renewing the Permanent Way of a Great Main Line. Sunday work in the tunnel of a great main line outside London - gangs of navvies relaying the permanent way. Date: 1914

Miners at work, Victor, Colorado, USA
Miners at work, drilling one thousand feet underground in a gold mine at Victor, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910

Interior of the Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool
King George V opened the Mersey Tunnel called Queensway on 18 July 1934, arranging to drive in the tunnel. Exclusively for vehicles, connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead under the River Mersey

Switzerland - Lake of Lucerne, the Axenstrasse
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Lake of Lucerne from the Axenstrasse, a road built alongside the lake that includes a windowed tunnel

Pool of Siloam, City of David, Jerusalem
The Pool of Siloam, a rock-cut pool in the ancient City of David, Jerusalem, showing the end of the conduit. The pool was fed by water from the Gihon Spring, carried there by two aqueducts

Norway - Bratlandsdal- entrance to tunnel
Lantern slide of mountain with road going through tunnel. Part of Box 124- Norway Land of the Vikings- Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Suffragette Proof Racecourse
Following the action of Emily Wilding Davison at the 1913 Epsom Derby, the racecourse authorities were keen to avoid any repetition. This cartoon envisages the Race Course of the Near Future, suff

Proposed Channel Tunnel, 1880
The proposed channel tunnel with three engravings showing the preliminary experimental workings at Sangatte on the French coast, Ness Point, St

Proposed Channel Tunnel, works at Sangatte
The works at Sangatte on the French coast for the proposed Channel Tunnel in 1876, described in The Graphic as, " this gigantic and long-talked of scheme, "

Projects for a road & rail link between Britain & France
A double page spread from The Illustrated London News demonstrating a number of rival proposals for building a road and rail link between France and Britain

Visitors to the Channel Tunnel works at Dover in 1882. 1. Going down in the Cage. 2. Arrival at the bottom of the shaft. 3. Swindon Junction (visitors enjoying a restorative glass of champagne!) 4

Graphic front cover - visitors to Channel Tunnel works
Front cover of The Graphic newspaper with engravings showing scenes of a visit to the preliminary tunnelling works near Dover for the start of the Channel Tunnel in 1882

Proposed Channel bridge, 1889
Diagrams demonstrating a 24 mile long superstructure bridge to cross the Channel, proposed in 1889 as an alternative to the long-debated Channel Tunnel. The bridge was suggested by M

Vision of the Channel Tunnel in 1909
Artists impression of the exit of the Channel Tunnel at Dover showing a variety of motor cars and omnibuses arriving from France

The Channel Tunnel - hints to Aldermen, Heath Robinson
A well-known magnate of the Port of Dover laying the foundation stone of the tunnel in the Channel. An amusing scene envisaged by William Heath Robinson showing various dignitaries observing

Secret History of the Channel Tunnel by Heath Robinson
An early experiment of the inventor. A proposal for the Channel Tunnel tested out using beer barrels and an accommodating puddle or small pond. Date: 1919

The Channel Tunnel - hints to builders, Heath Robinson
An unaccountable delay in the Channel Tunnel. A hold up due to the hook on a line belonging to a fisherman in a boat above the surface - unforeseen problems with the Channel Tunnel imagined by

The Channel Tunnel - hints to engine drivers, Heath Robinson
Heroic endeavour of an engine-driver to stop a leak. An engine driver sticks his head in a hole threatening to flood the Channel Tunnel - a humorous scenario envisaged by William Heath Robinson

Tunnel under the Elbe, Hamburg, Germany
Tunnel under the River Elbe, Hamburg, Germany. Date: circa 1910

Greetings card from Walzenhausen, Switzerland
Greetings card from Walzenhausen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland, with various views. Date: late 19th century

River drive and tunnel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1905

Central Station and River Tunnel, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Michigan Central Station and entrance to Detroit River Tunnel, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Date: 1913

Gotha giant biplane, WW1 diagram
The new German raider, the Gotha giant biplane, diagrammed in The Graphic, which described by the paper as typically Teutonic in its lack of finesse. Date: 1917

Major fire, Smithfield Poultry Market, London
A major fire at Smithfield Poultry Market, London, on 23 January 1958 -- firefighters with hosepipes and a Dennis fire engine (rubble from roadworks not connected with fire)

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