By: Jamie Condliffe
One of those great pieces that makes you realise engineering can be cool
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Fascinating article. I would probably have found it of interest by itself, but it also sheds a bit more light on a local hero from my home town in Cornwall – Richard Trevithick. It strikes me that he...
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I got stuck at Raw Sewage… yuck. I walked under the river when I visited London.
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If the transit of carts was enough to clog up the only bridge in the 1820’s, how come the tunnel sat unused until the 1860’s and then only used for railways? I imagine the volume of cargo being...
View ArticleBy: allkindsofhistory
It’s certainly a strange story. The tunnel was the product of private enterprise, and it took vastly longer to dig than anticipated – almost 20 years. All this meant that the company responsible ran...
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