Bristol Harbour Railway History

Wapping railway station - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

The next time you’re standing on the platform at Wapping station, in between trains, listen. The platform is at the entrance to the Thames Tunnel, which took 18 years to dig by hand and opened in 1843 as the first tunnel ever built under a river. The sound you will here is the water that leaks into the tunnel. Beneath the tracks there are two more levels of hidden chambers, where the water is stored before being pumped away. There’s more about the tunnel and its shady past in my new book, A Mudl

Wapping in East London: A Historic Thames-Side District

𝗪𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 The Wapping Tunnel in Liverpool, opened in 1830 and engineered by George Stephenson, was the world’s first underground railway beneath a city. Spanning over 2,030 yards, it connected the city’s docks to Edge Hill, playing a vital role in transporting goods during the industrial era. Initially powered by a stationary steam engine, it served for over a century before closing in 1972. ▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎▪︎ #allabandoned #sombrexplore #urbex #urbe