Paddington Bakerloo Line Link Project, London
The title of this post is the same as that of this page on the Institute Of Civil Engineering web site.
The page contains a video presentation of the building of the Paddington Bakerloo Line Link, that will connect the Bakerloo Line to Crossrail sometime next year.
If you think the golden age of British improvised tunnelling finished with the end of World War Two, with the likes of the Wooden Horse and the Great Escape, then think again.
- A redundant Royal Mail building stars as the cookhouse, where the tunnel starts under the floor.
- The old Rail Mail tunnel, doubles for the sewers.
- Sections were dug by hand.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see more pedestrian tunnels dug with all the ingenuity of this one.
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