Tunnel Collection (page 4)

Underground railway construction, Kings Cross, London
Underground railway construction for the Metropolitan line, Kings Cross, London. Date: 1860

Underground railway, Waterloo and City Line opening London
Underground railway, Waterloo and City Line opening, London. Starting from Waterloo, a driver working the motor, the entrance to one of the iron tunnels. Date: 1898

Railway construction, Baker Street, London 1868
Railway construction at Baker Street, London, at the junction of the St Johns Wood and Metropolitan railways. Date: 1868

Waiting room at Tower Hill underground station 1870
The Tower Hill subway, waiting room and entry to the omnibus. Date: 1870

Ceremony of opening of the Thames Tunnel 1843
Rotherhithe entrance of the tunnel, connecting to Wapping. 25 March 1843

View of the metal ore veins inside a mountain
View of the metal ore veins inside a so-called Stollart in a mountain with unusual parallel veins. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der

Section through an 18th century European mine. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire

Plans for a tunnel under the River Thames, 18th century
Plans for a tunnel under the River Thames, with two lanes for horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians, workers excavating the tunnels

Eddystone Lighthouse, diving bell, and an underwater tunnel
John Smeatons Eddystone Lighthouse, men in an underwater diving bell, and plans for an underwater tunnel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Roman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4

By Ferry or Tunnel to France - Factors for and against
By Ferry or Tunnel to France: Factors in the Transport Problem. The merits of a atunnel system as opposed to a channel train ferry system

Interior of Holland Tunnel, New York City subway, USA. Date: 1937

Construction of underground railway King William Street 1888
Driving the tunnels of the London and Southwark sub-railway passing under the River Thames. 1888

Channel Tunnel attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent
Channel Tunnel digging attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent, with machinery and workmen. Date: 1880

Kings Cross underground station 1868
Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868

Entrance to the Clerkenwell tunnel from Farringdon Street, London, on the Metropolitan line, Great Northern Railway. 1860s

Trial-trip on the Underground Railway 1862
Dignitaries taking a ride on the first underground train on the Metropolitan Railway line, waving their hats in the air as they ride on a wooden steam locomotive between Paddington and Farrinton

Cutting sixty miles of tunnel in Paris
Cross-section of plans for the tunnel extension to the Paris Metro under the Paris Opera House 1903

Building a boat to go beneath a street
Purpose-built boat -shaped caisson which will be lowered into the hole made for the extension of the Paris Metro under the River Seine 1906

New tunnel under the Seine 1905
Night staff work on the new tunnel extension under the River Seine. Date: 1905

Flushing the sewers 1860s
With the population expanding and dumping coursing blockages below the depths of London, men wearing heavy oilskin protective clothing would go into the tunnels to unblock the sewers with a combing

Santa Claus riding on a train on a Christmas postcard
Santa Claus with children riding on a train on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Loaded freight train in the Illinois tunnel system, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1907

Plan of River Thames Tunnel and its Approaches
Plans for first underwater tunnel to connect Wapping with Rotherhithe. Date: circa 1824

Three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel 1825
Section of the three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel in 1825, using Marc Isambard Brunels and Thomas Cochranes newly invented tunnelling shield technology. Date: 1825

Longitudinal section of Thames Tunnel 1825
First of the construction took part in 1825, hundred and fifty feet under the River Thames. Date: 1825

Work at a coal mine 1878
Work at a coal mine, low travelling and holding the bottom coal. Date: 1878

Letterhead, Smarts Brick Works, Harborne, Birmingham
Letterhead, Smarts Brick Works Limited, California, Quinton, Harborne, Birmingham 32, West Midlands. circa 1910s

The Severn Tunnel works, 1880
The Severn Tunnel works - building the railway tunnel linking South Gloucestershire to Monmouthshire under the estuary of the River Severn. It was built between 1873 and 1886. 1

GTR Station, Sarnia Tunnel, Ontario, Canada
Grand Trunk Railroad Station, Sarnia Tunnel, Ontario, Canada. Date: 1910s

Connaught Tunnel, Canadian Rockies, Canada
Connaught Tunnel through Mount MacDonald, Canadian Rockies, Canada. Date: 1917

Grizzly Dome Tunnel, Butte County, California, USA
Grizzly Dome Tunnel, Feather River Highway (State Route 70), Plumas County, California, USA. Date: 1937

Excavating tube railway 1903
Under construction, workers in the shield, Great Northern and City Railway. 1903

Kings Cross underground station, London 1868
Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868

Blackwall Tunnel
The entrance of the Blackwall Tunnel, London, connecting Blackwall with East Greenwich. Date: 1897

Douglas YO-31A 31-604 (in the NACA wind tunnel at Langley)
Douglas YO-31A 31-604 (msn 1069), shown mounted in the full-scale National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) wind tunnel at Langley, Virginia

During the cold winter of February 1855, people were skating underground, between Regents Park end of the tunnel through which the canal runs under Aberdeen-place and maida Hill

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

Angels Flight Funicular railway - Los Angeles, USA
circa 1910s

Northern railway at Kings Cross junction 1861
Junction of the Great Northern railway at Kings Cross with the Metropolitan railway. Date: 1861

Opening Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool with Birkenhead 1934
Date: 18 July 1934

Proposed Metropolitan subway under London streets 1853
Proposed Metropolitan subway for sewage, gas and water supply. Date: 1853

Thames subway at Tower-Hill, London 1870
Entrance to the tunnel. Date: 1870

Diving-bell used in construction of the Thames Tunnel. Date: 19th Century

Construction of Barlows Tower Tunnel under the Thames 1869
Construction of Barlows Tower Tunnel under the Thames, advance shield. Date: 1869

Relative Positions of Thames Tunnel and River, London
Diagram showing the relative positions of Thames tunnel under the river. Date: 19th Century

ANGLO-GALLIC SUBMARINE 1855
The Anglo-Gallic Submarine railway project consists of a tube, anchored to the sea-bed. Date: 1855

Channel Tunnel in 1803
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. Date: 1803

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