Tunnel Collection (page 15)

Visiting Chunnel Works 3
A tram carries visitors to the English workings to the limits of current activity

Playground Tunnel
Children playing in a concrete playground tunnel

Cross-Channel on Top
A French inventor proposes an amphibious train which rides over any water that flows in its way. Think, all that money invested in the Channel Tunnel could have been saved !

Tunnel through Earth
The French astronomer Flammarion proposes a tunnel through the Earth

Tunnels / Channel
Veyrrier, a French engineer, proposes an elevated tunnel resting on the sea-bed, with sections lowered from the surface

Chunnel / Lanos / Sea Floor
A tunnel resting on the sea floor would be very vulnerable

Chunnel / Lanos / Explodes
Should war break out, the tunnel may be blown up

Thames Railway Tunnel
One train emerges from the railway tunnel beneath the Thames into the station at Wapping while another train plunges into it

Herculaneum Excavation
A tunnel leading to the excavated remains of Herculaneum, buried in AD79 by the pyroclastic flow from the erupting Mount Vesuvius

Severn Tunnel Flooded
When water breaks through into the workings of the Severn Tunnel, diver Lambert penetrates the heading to close a door isolating the affected section

Sir Edward Watkin (Ape)
SIR EDWARD WATKIN engineer, railway promoter, chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company

Trial Trip, Underground
A successful trial trip on the Metropolitan Railway : the train - drawn by a steam locomotive - is about to enter Portland Road station, near Euston

Thames Tunnel Accident
The fatal accident of January 1828 - water breaks into the workings and floods the partially completed tunnel

How the King May Travel
How the king may travel to Paris - in future. Just as World War One is about to start, the Channel Tunnel question is reconsidered

Hudson River Tunnel - 2
Constructing the Hudson River Tunnel between New York and New Jersey : laying the iron plates that line the tunnel

Transatlantic Tunnel
Tunnel Beneath the Atlantic

Rotherhithe Tunnel
The Thames tunnel at Rotherhithe; Western archway

Thames Tunnel / Interior
Brunels Thames Tunnel

Thames Tunnel / Anon Col
Brunels Thames Tunnel - a cross-section showing the tunnel and ships sailing on the River above it

Marc Isambard Brunel
MARC ISAMBARD BRUNEL enginner, notably the Thames Tunnel

At the Channel 1805
INVASION PLANS - Contemplating England across the Straits of Dover, he thinks that with a superior navy - or a tunnel - he could be in London in four days !

Chunnel / Italian Version
An Italian conception of the Channel Tunnel

Sibly Frontispiece
Symbolic frontispiece to Siblys book

Chunnel / Batemanrevy / Bell
Bateman and Revys railway tube project

Flood in Thames Tunnel
Visitors viewing work on the Thames Tunnel are caught in a flood

Blackwall Tunnel Open
BLACKWALL TUNNEL The opening of the tunnel by the Prince and Princess of Wales

Blackwall Tun. Construct
BLACKWALL TUNNEL Interior of the tunnel during construction

Opening of the Thames Tunnel
A picture to commemorate the opening of the Thames Tunnel, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping, showing the company medallion featuring Sir Marc Isambard Brunel supported by one of the tunnels

Siege in action, with siege weapons
A diagrammatic representation of a siege in action, showing a siege tower and fortifications, including an underground tunnel

Liverpool-Manch. Railway
Building the Liverpool & Manchester Rail-Way; entrance to the tunnel at Edge-Hill

Dover / White Cliffs 1887
The white cliffs of Dover

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