The U.K. government on April 12 announced plans for a $5.4-billion highway crossing of the River Thames about 80 kilometers east of London. The notification came weeks after London’s transportation ...

While the Tideway super sewer project, following the River Thames through the heart of London, is a British endeavor, the contracting team is very multinational. Even though the United Kingdom is ...

Drivers in London will have to pay a toll when using the Blackwall Tunnel from Monday as the new Silvertown Tunnel opens, linking the east of the Capital to the southeast. The charge will be ...

The M25 is set for a major overhaul with updated plans for a new multi-billion pound road tunnel beneath the River Thames. The whole route of the Lower Thames Crossing will be a three-lane dual ...

Century City-based engineering and infrastructure giant AECOM has received a contract to provide ground assessment services for the third phase of the 14.3-mile, $7 billion-plus Lower Thames Crossing ...

London, UK, has embarked on what is described as a "one in one-hundred-and-fifty-year project." The maneuvering of a crane into place at Blackfriars on the River Thames marks the start of major work ...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has unveiled Crossrail’s new tunnel under the River Thames, as part of the £14.8bn Crossrail project. When it becomes operational in 2018, the tunnel will ...

Isambard Kingdom Brunel is one of Britain's greatest-ever engineers. His first project was the Rotherhithe Shaft, the starting point for London's Thames Tunnel. The tunnel was the first in the world ...

The River Thames winds 215 miles through England, carving out the curves and bends that define much of the geography, ...

This engraving from 1870 shows the cramped conditions when a train ran through the Tower Subway tunnel. Even once the train was removed, there wasn't much more space. Wikimedia Commons The Tower ...

The first underwater tunnel ever built opened in London in 1843, paving a path for cities everywhere to expand beneath rivers and oceans. Today, the tunnel’s grand entrance hall reopens to the public ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A Victorian tunnel under the River Thames, which was hailed in its day as the eighth wonder of the world, has opened to the public for two days for the first time in 145 years. The ...