Closing of the Thames Tunnel. — This week the Thames Tunnel was finally closed as a public footpath. This undertaking, which at the time of its design was considered a masterpiece of science, and which formed a communication under the Thames between Eotherhithe and Wapping, was, after numerous difficulties, finally accomplished and opened on 23rd of March, 1843, having been commenced by Sir I. S. Brunei in 1824. The total cost of the tunnel was about £600,000, but the East London itailwav Company recently purchased it for a little over a third of that sum. The company will run their trains through the tunnel, their line bringing the inhabitants of Wapping, Shadwell, &c, within easy distance of Southwark Park. — Engineering, 23rd July.
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Southland Times, Issue 1158, 3 November 1869, Page 3
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