No engineer in history has come close to rivalling the fame of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His career reads like fiction. At nineteen, he worked for his father on the first tunnel to pass beneath the ...
Did you know you can walk right under the River Thames in Greenwich? Tucked away in plain sight, the Greenwich foot tunnel offer a hidden passage beneath the river, rich with history and even a ghost ...
who designed the tunnel as part of a grand vision to improve river crossings. The result was a 370-metre underground passageway lined with cast iron rings and buried 15 metres below the Thames.
The Huguenot Tunnel is the longest road tunnel in South Africa and cost £8.5million to build, shortening journeys between Paarl from Worcester by 6.8 miles, saving between 15 and 26 minutes.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More of Europe’s riskiest corporate debt is on track to default in 2025 than in any year since the global ...
Thames Water looks for an emergency cash injection through courts Thames Water will seek approval for an emergency cash lifeline in court on Monday as it faces running out of money in four weeks ...