THAMES TUNNEL
PILOT BORING COMPLETED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) RUGBY, October 5. The pilot boring of the Dartford to Purfleet tunnel under the Thames, which will join the counties of Essex and Kent, was completed yesterday, when the last five feet of the curtain of chalk was broken. There was an error of only of an inch in the line and three-sixteenths of an inch in the level of the tunnel when the two borings from the Essex and Kent sides met. The total length of the pilot tunnel, is 2383 feet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 5
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91THAMES TUNNEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 5
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