Rotherhite Tunnel
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Rotherhite Tunnel
(Plan and elevation of the Rotherhithe Tunnel - engineer Isambard Marc Brunel -annotated in ink) Opened 25 March 1843. Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping was the first underwater tunnel in the world. Several attempts to construct a tunnel under the Thames had failed by the time Brunel patented a tunnelling shield in 1818. Five years later Parliament authorised his plan to use the shield. It worked by exposing only a small proportion of the excavation face, thus reducing (although not eliminating) the chances of the tunnel collapsing. The tunnel was used solely for foot passengers until the 1860s, when it was converted to carry the East London Railway. It still carries trains of the East London Line, now part of the London Underground.
Original size: 416 mm x 678 mm
- Image reference: PY9926
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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