https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LK6Q3CDIw0
`It’s all thanks to a boring German and some crafty financing`, says The Times.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/transport/article/how-silvertown-tunnel-was-built-thames-6988j86pb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htI0TpHAwFQ
Transport for London has a a lot to say about the opening of the Silvertown tunnel;
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07 April 2025
Londoners to benefit from faster and more reliable journeys and enhanced public...
Investors hope east Londons Silvertown Tunnel will be a model for future private finance initiative projects.
https://www.ft.com/content/efaa0458-f5d2-44b3-ba6a-ea915d47e083
A few days ago read in The Guardian.
"This is a 1990s project that’s coming to fruition 30 years later"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/04/is-the-silvertown-tunnel-a-bridge-to-the-future-or-a-step-backwards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn6NsT4gNYM
TfL announces the day.
06 January 2025
Construction works and rigorous testing of new modern tunnel linking Silvertown in east London to the Greenwich Peninsula now sufficiently...
Riverlinx CJV declares the construction works for connecting open cut approaches and the tunnelling section of the Silvertown Tunnel.
Riverlinx CJV, a construction joint venture of Ferrovial Construction, BAM Nuttall and SK ecoplant working on...
The opening of Transport for Londons (TfLs) Silvertown Tunnel has been brought forward to early 2025 while work on the cut-and-cover sections and road realignment works have hit full...
... delegates heard at the GE Piling and Foundations conference.
https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/tremie-pipe-incident-one-of-many-challenges-overcome-by-silvertown-geotech-contractors-30-04-2024/
Tunnelling on the Silvertown Tunnel in east London was completed ahead of schedule because the projects tunnel boring machine (TBM) was turned around quicker than expected, an engineer has...
The estimated final cost (EFC) of Londons Silvertown Tunnel has increased by 2M and the opening date slipped back to Q2 of 2025-26, but Transport for London (TfL) is confident this can be clawed...
declares BAM
9 August 2023 - Jill, our Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) which is delivering the Silvertown Tunnel in east London, has now completed work on the second bore, meaning that all main tunnelling work on the new river crossing is...
'Tunnelling work has come to an end on a controversial new road under the River Thames.'
https://www.itv.com/news/london/2023-08-03/mayor-accused-of-keeping-quiet-as-tunnelling-work-ends-on-controversial-road
The boring beneath the Thames to form the Silvertown Tunnel has been completed, Transport for London (TfL) says,
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66393677
Excavation work is underway on the cut and cover sections of the Silvertown Tunnel in east London.
https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/silvertown-tunnel-cut-and-cover-sections-progress-24-07-2023/