The Tunnelling Podcast

The Tunnelling Podcast


The Men Behind the Shield

January 29, 2021

The Thames Tunnel, an 11m wide, 6m high and 396m long tunnel cuts 23m under the river Thames when measured at high tide. It is the first known tunnel to be excavated under a navigable river. And most critically for today’s episode it is the first use of a tunnelling shield, which some 200 years...