Model, showing how the first tunnel was built below a navigable waterway ... Marc Brunel's solution to the problems of tunnelling below the Thames was to use an iron shield to protect workers.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel connects to London's existing Victorian-era sewer system at 21 different points, boosting its capacity. The original 150-year-old sewer system was severely overwhelmed ...

More than £1.2bn has been spent on the Lower Thames Crossing even though construction has not started on the £10bn road ...

After 10 years of construction work, the last of the 21 connections of the Thames Tideway Tunnel was made to the city's Victorian sewage system. The 16-mile (25km) pipe will divert 34 of the most ...

An incredible £4.5 billion tunnel stretches underneath London and you probably had no idea it was there. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a deep-level ‘super sewer’ that spans 15 miles from Acton ...

Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World, Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames opened as a public walkway in 1843.Thames Tunnel peep show, 1843 Heralded as the Eighth Wonder of the World ...

Richard Beamish, an engineer, tells of the time when he was employed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc, to work on the Thames Tunnel. It was 1825 and no one had ever dug a tunnel ...

Plans to upgrade a major tunnel under the Thames, which is used for vital electricity infrastructure between Kent and Essex, have been approved. The Grain to Tilbury project forms part of a ...

Sir Neville Simms, chairman of the Thames Tideway Tunnel and a City veteran ... projects in recent years – should be used as ...

Thames Water has unveiled plans to launch an additional four-week consultation round on amendments to its proposed Thames Tunnel project. London businesses must be encouraged to reduce water ...

Designed to handle storm overflows, the Thames Tideway Tunnel opened its gates today, capturing 589,000 cubic metres of sewage within 24 hours during heavy rainfall in September. The 25km ‘super ...