MPs have issued warnings for several years about the gap in investment between the north and south of England.

More than one-third of the £1.2bn spent on the proposed Lower Thames Crossing near London has gone towards planning applications, highlighting the costs of getting the long-awaited project off the ...

We are on a tunnel boring machine (TBM) inside High Speed Two's huge Northolt tunnels. These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling renaissance that is creating a new, mainly hidden, London.

It will run adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel, built in the Victorian era, which takes drivers from near the O2 Arena under the River Thames to the East India Dock Road in Blackwall. The Silvertown ...

There had been a number of different attempts to tunnel under the Thames, including one by British inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevethick in 1807, but all of them ended as failures.

The Thames then was an open sewer as the drainage system in London was primitive or non-existent. The tunnel flooded regularly and men died. Work was abandoned for seven years; it finally opened ...

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 ...

Cyclists will be able to use a shuttle service when using a new £2.2bn tunnel under the River Thames when it opens next month, Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed. Opening on 7 April ...

Motorists started to use the Silvertown Tunnel for the first time on Monday – with car drivers paying up to £4 to use the first new road crossing under the Thames for 58 years.The opening of the ...

It will run adjacent to the Blackwall Tunnel, built in the Victorian era, which takes drivers from near the O2 Arena under the River Thames to the East India Dock Road in Blackwall. The Silvertown ...