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By: Jamie Condliffe

One of those great pieces that makes you realise engineering can be cool

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By: Evan Peterson

Great story from a great history blog

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By: CML Brown-Ross

You had me at bone-rot

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By: knally

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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By: Unbelievable Islands

I got stuck at Raw Sewage… yuck. I walked under the river when I visited London.

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By: Negri

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...

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By: 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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