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  • Blurred people walk towards bright sunlight through a subway tunnel beneath the Embankment in central London.
    tunnel_crowd02-27-01-2013.jpg
  • Elderly couple negotiate 2012 Olympic construction site tunnel under railway bridge at Pudding Lane station.
    tunnel_walkway.jpg
  • 1990s British customs and immigration officials and a French Gendarme await the arrival of the first people to have crossed from France to the British mainland on the occasion of the Channel Tunnel bores breaking through, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, Kent England.
    tunnel_customs-01-12-1990.jpg
  • Man reads a book while sitting on old concrete-filled oil drums at entrance to east London tunnel.
    tunnel_man01-08-07-2010.jpg
  • The new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Folkestone in 1989. A workman walks over part of the structure that will in the future, take the Eurostar and Shuttle trains through this portal underneath the town of Folkestone and on beneath the English Channel to the French coast. The technique is known as cut and cover. Eleven tunnel boring machines cut through chalk marl to construct two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. Tunnelling commenced in 1988, and the tunnel began operating in 1994. In 1985 prices, the total construction cost was £4.650 billion (equivalent to £11 billion today), an 80% cost overrun. At the peak of construction 15,000 people were employed with daily expenditure over £3 million. Ten workers were killed during construction between 1987 and 1993, most in the first few months of boring.
    eurotunnel_construction01-15-04-1989.jpg
  • A theatrical joke about bureaucracy between French and British comedians at an event to mark the opening of the Channel Tunnel produces this quirky scene where each country's officials are seated at a long table, dressed in British flags, to symbolise the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age. Wearing smart uniforms, French immigration police and Gendarmes sit among British customs and immigration officials who, rather comically wear yellow hard hats because Health and Safety laws make the wearing of protective headgear compulsory on construction sites. A frontier control point notice stands for the benefit of viewers who might otherwise be guessing what is going on.
    eurotunnel12-01-1990.jpg
  • Blurred travellers on the escalator in an inter-terminal tunnel at Chicago-O'Hare airport, Illinois, USA. As the travelling escalator makes its way along the tunnel, colours and shapes blur except for a lone figure coming the other way, en-route to a departure or arrival gate in the public domain area of the airport hub, one of the largest airport in the United States, and 12 months before the terrorist attacks on America that changed the public's attitude to flying on commercial airliners.
    chicago_o_hare01-23-11-2000 15-08-13.jpg
  • British and French customs officials shake hands during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side. As proof of Anglo-french relations between the two European states, an Entente Cordiale exists in this theatrical joke about bureaucracy between France and Britain. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    anglo_french_90s-01-12-1990.jpg
  • Blurred pedestrians walk through a multi-coloured tunnel under a large construction site in Knightsbridge, on 11th April 2019, in London England.
    knightsbridge-01-11-04-2019.jpg
  • Graffiti covers the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood06-25-10-2020.jpg
  • The new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Folkestone in 1989.
    channel_tunnel4-15-04-1989.jpg
  • A country walker emerges from a dark foot tunnel under a railway line, into bright sunlight, on 21st October 2018, near Hollingbourne;, Kent, England.
    kent_walk-03-21-10-2018.jpg
  • Sinister silhouettes in underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti.
    graffiti_tunnel01-22-06-2012.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, pedestrians descend steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-46-07-11-2018.jpg
  • Infirm and elderly transit passengers transported through tunnel by buggy through Heathrow airport's terminal 5
    heathrow_airport1022-11-08-2009.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a lady pedestrian descends steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-23-08-11-2018.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters02-09-03-1992.jpg
  • A British passenger has a road map for the year 1996 on their lap in the left-hand seat as they queue with other Brits at the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone, England. Their journey will take them across the English Channel to   France via the Channel Tunnel.
    channel_crossing-18-07-1996.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a male pedestrian climbs the steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-35-08-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, pedestrians descend the steps of the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-17-08-11-2018.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station01-19-02-1993.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. A train guard watches for a green signal as Londoners are sandwiched inside the nearest carriage. Waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station02-19-02-1993.jpg
  • Sinister graffiti artist silhouette sprays walls in underpass tunnel in Waterloo.
    graffiti_tunnel03-22-06-2012.jpg
  • Sinister graffiti artist silhouette sprays walls in underpass tunnel in Waterloo.
    graffiti_tunnel05-22-06-2012.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, pedestrians descend steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-50-07-11-2018.jpg
  • An engineer working underground during construction of the Heathrow Express train project on behalf of Heathrow airport operator BAA (British Airport Authority), London England. While standing erect, he twists a high-tension tool that secures the concrete sleepers to the steel rails using a Pandrol Clip. The tunnel snakes its way into the distance behind him, lit by temporary lighting on the 5-mile tunnel wall. Its sections are reinforced concrete, shaped for the Heathrow Express electric Siemens-built trains that provide a direct link between Heathrow's terminals and Paddington station in central London. This is now the most expensive rail-mile fare in the UK at £15.50 for a 15-minute journey. In 1994 one tunnel collapsed without warning in one of the most catastrophic civil engineering disasters in British history.
    RB_012-26-03-1997.jpg
  • A couple descend the steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-26-08-11-2018.jpg
  • Peering through a hole in the huge metal door of an old Victorian tunnel, two children stand on the place where a railway once emerged from this brick entrance - a link between nearby Dulwich and the Crystal Palace. Now the London Wildlife Trust maintains this once-wild wood at Sydenham, South London, England, which has reverted to forest again, 40 years after (one of the first the electrified railways) line fell silent. The brother and sister look through to see if there is light at the end of this tunnel but it has long been bricked up, sealed to deter vandals and danger to all. It is Autumn and the leaves on the beech and oak trees are about to fall, adding to the already organic deep forest floor. From a personal documentary project entitled "Next of Kin" about the photographer's two children's early years spent in parallel universes. Model released
    ella+sam21-20-10_2001.jpg
  • A family walk towards the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood08-25-10-2020.jpg
  • Graffiti covers the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood06-25-10-2020-2.jpg
  • A portrait of both British and French customs officials during the ceremony to open the Channel Tunnel in Kent, on the UK side, on 1st December 1990, in Folkestone, England. It symbolises the controls on human traffic that will soon pass through the tunnel beneath the sea between England and France, the first physical link between these two land masses since the Ice Age.
    customs_women-01-12-1990.jpg
  • Inner tunnel of a construction hoarding in central London.
    kingsway_hoarding 03-22-12-2014.jpg
  • Sinister silhouettes in underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti.
    graffiti_tunnel02-22-06-2012.jpg
  • A couple descend the steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-27-08-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a female pedestrian looks unsure about her safety in the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-08-08-11-2018.jpg
  • Three silhouettes walk into shadows beneath south London railway tunnel.
    shadows_people02-18-02-2015.jpg
  • The new Channel Tunnel rail terminal under construction in the Kent countryside at Folkestone in 1989.
    channel_tunnel3-15-04-1989.jpg
  • A man follows another into the foot tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-31-08-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a man and woman climb the steps of the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-25-08-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a pedestrian is distracted by his phone screen while descending steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-22-08-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a lady pedestrian descends steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-20-08-11-2018.jpg
  • A pedestrian climbs the steps from the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-52-07-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, pedestrians descend steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-49-07-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, pedestrians descend steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-48-07-11-2018.jpg
  • As a departing train disappears round the corner at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, a lone woman waits for the next service. This is the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform on the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_station03-19-02-1993.jpg
  • Workmen carry metal sheeting into dark tunnel of railway arches.
    workmen_sheeting01-01-05-2012.jpg
  • Two women descend steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-33-08-11-2018.jpg
  • A male pedestrian descends the steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-30-08-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a lady pedestrian descends steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-19-08-11-2018.jpg
  • With the Shard in the background, a male pedestrian descends the steps into the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 8th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-18-08-11-2018.jpg
  • A pedestrian climbs the steps from the tunnel under London Bridge during the evening rush-hour, on 7th November 2018, in London, England.
    city_people-53-07-11-2018.jpg
  • During the morning rush-hour at Bank underground station in the heart of London's financial district, the grim face of 90s tube travel is seen here in a wide landscape of rounded tunnel and the curve of the station platform. Weary Londoners sit waiting for the doors to close and the hot air to seal them inside the small space, men and women press against each other in a claustrophobic journey along the Central Line. The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map. It is a deep-level "tube" line, running east-west across London, and, at 76 km (47 mi). Incorporated in 1891 it is today the longest Underground line and also the busiest with around 260 million passengers a year.
    underground_commuters01-09-03-1992.jpg
  • A Post Office employee hauls a cart full of post onto the station platform on the Mail Rail system. The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices. Inspired by the Chicago Tunnel Company it operated from 3 December 1927 until 31 May 2003. It ran east-west from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Office at Whitechapel in the east, a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km). It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
    mail_rail-16-03-1993.jpg
  • Seen through one of the tunnels, a visitor peers down into Tolmin Gorge (Tolminska Korita), on 20th June 2018, in Tolmin Gorge , Slovenia.
    slovenia-165-20-06-2018.jpg
  • A lone musician kneels to play the tuba within an oval aperture in the art installation sculpture known as Colourscape on Clapham Common, South London, England. Created by an outside overhead sun shining through a collection of large, inflatable PVC domes, the man walks slowly through tunnels, enticing customers to ecperience vivid colour while emitting eerie sound from voices, brass and string instruments. Designed by Simon Desorgher & Lawrence Casserley, Colourscape celebrated its 10th year of installation in Clapham in 2004. Colourscape's charitable Trust, Nettlefold Arts, was founded in 1988, with the purpose of presenting contemporary music, related arts and educational events, in innovative ways.
    colourscape03-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • A lone musician kneels to play the tuba within an oval aperture in the art installation sculpture known as Colourscape on Clapham Common, South London, England. Created by an outside overhead sun shining through a collection of large, inflatable PVC domes, the man walks slowly through tunnels, enticing customers to ecperience vivid colour while emitting eerie sound from voices, brass and string instruments. Designed by Simon Desorgher & Lawrence Casserley, Colourscape celebrated its 10th year of installation in Clapham in 2004. Colourscape's charitable Trust, Nettlefold Arts, was founded in 1988, with the purpose of presenting contemporary music, related arts and educational events, in innovative ways.
    colourscape01-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • As child visitors negotiate their way through a hole, a musician plays the tuba within the art installation sculpture known as Colourscape on Clapham Common, South London, England. Created by an outside overhead sun shining through a collection of large, inflatable PVC domes, the man and other visitors wear coloured capes and walk slowly through tunnels, enticing customers to ecperience vivid colour while emitting eerie sound from voices, brass and string instruments. Designed by Simon Desorgher & Lawrence Casserley, Colourscape celebrated its 10th year of installation in Clapham in 2004. Colourscape's charitable Trust, Nettlefold Arts, was founded in 1988, with the purpose of presenting contemporary music, related arts and educational events, in innovative ways.
    colourscape02-15-12-2007 .jpg
  • High up in the picture, two employees (one in traditional Arab clothes, the other in western dress) of Bahrain International Airport stand on the edge of a passenger 'air bridge' to oversee the departure of an airliner at Bahrain International Airport as it is pushed back by an unseen airport vehicle. It is night time and the ramp (or aircraft parking tarmac) is illuminated by yellow artificial light with the bridge itself, lit my overhead fluorescent tubes that give a blue-green tint above the mens' heads who watch the nose of a departing airliner. It is slowly taken backwards on its way to the runway take-off  position with its passengers on-board. We see only the fuselage, wings and part of its engine cowlings but not the undercarriage wheels, nor the ground itself. The men look as if they are floating in mid-air, being disembodied from the rest of the airfield's equipment.
    RB-0052.jpg
  • A cash dispenser in a U-Bahn station of Seestrasse in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin.
    berlin_cash02-05-04-2013.jpg
  • A jogger runs into the underpass beneath Westminster Bridge on London's Southbank,
    southbank_tourism03-03-02-2014.jpg
  • Stratford Olympic Park construction barrier marks boundary of no access to land near River Lea in East London.
    stratford_olympics08-08-10-2010.jpg
  • A cash dispenser in a U-Bahn station of Seestrasse in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin.
    berlin_cash01-05-04-2013.jpg
  • A lone female replaces boot after blister inspection during walk through a farmer's winter polytunnels, empty of crops.
    country_walk02-15-01-2012.jpg
  • A tourist walks into the underpass beneath Westminster Bridge on London's Southbank,
    southbank_tourism04-03-02-2014.jpg
  • A lone female stops to inspect blisters while on a farmer's land where winter polytunnels are empty of crops.
    country_walk01-15-01-2012.jpg
  • Stratford Olympic Park construction barrier marks boundary of no access to land near River Lea in East London.
    stratford_olympics09-08-10-2010.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewer_team01-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen01-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Bald-headed London bus passenger sits near window as sunlight passes through a tunnel roof.
    tunnel_light02-23-03-2011.jpg
  • A family walk towards the closed tunnel that was once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through Sydenham Hill Woods. The track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost, on 25th October 2020, in London, England.
    sydenham_wood08-25-10-2020-2.jpg
  • Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London.
    chinese_wedding01-12-05-2015.jpg
  • The wrap-around construction hoarding of the Tideway Sewer Tunnel dominates a surrounding Bermondsey street, on 16th January 2020, in London, England.
    street_hoarding-01-16-01-2020.jpg
  • An aerial landscape at the Dartford Bridge crossing of dated 1990 before the completion of London's newest Thames river crossing - the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge. Already used are the toll booths taking much-needed toll fees from motorists as they emerge from the pre-existing Dartford Tunnel (1963). The Bridge is a 137 m (449 ft) high and 812 m (2,664 ft) long cable-stayed road bridge across the River Thames in south east England. It was opened in 1991 by Queen Elizabeth II. It is the southbound element of the Dartford Crossing, a strategic congestion charged road crossing the half mile wide river east of London. It was built alongside two earlier tunnels under the Thames, which now form the northbound element of the crossing. Upon completion, the bridge was Europe's largest cable-supported bridge.
    dartford_bridge-02-07-1990.jpg
  • Seen from behind, a woman wearing headphones walks through a tunnel of construction foam-lined scaffolding, on 9th December 2016, in the City of London.
    headphones_person-01-09-12-2016.jpg
  • Protest signs erected by locals of the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link in 1989.
    channel_tunnel2-25-09-1989.jpg
  • A bright, new blue office chair incongruously left in a street with stained Victorian brickwork of a tunnel, in the London district of Clerkenwell. Set against the poverty of the road arch brick, we see contemporary modern office furniture and a previous 19th century era.
    blue_chair02-28-02-2013.jpg
  • A fence warns walkers to this part of the ancient woodland habitat in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. Once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through this flat part of Sydenham Hill Woods, its track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    woodland_habitat01-18-11-2020.jpg
  • Locals of the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, protest in Trafalgar Square against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link in 1989.
    channel_tunnel1-25-09-1989.jpg
  • Seen from a low angle at the side of the track, near where grass and daisies grow, a speeding Eurostar TGV train hurtles towards the viewer, blurring as it comes towards us. This is the Kent countryside, otherwise known as the fertile Garden of England, and the route for high-speed trains that ply back and forth between western Europe and London St Pancras. This international passenger service was made possible by the completion of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 operating eighteen-carriage Class 373 trains which run at up to 300 kilometres per hour (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. Eurostar is operated by the national railway companies of France and Belguim, SNCF and SNCB, and by Eurostar (UK) Ltd (EUKL), a subsidiary of London and Continental Railways (LCR) which in turn also owns the high-speed infrastructure and stations on the British side.
    eurostar_speed-25-05-1995.jpg
  • A young man with a Welcome Home balloon, meets his partner after a long absence, in the airport terminal at Chicago-O'Hare airport, Illinois, USA. Waiting for his partner for some hours in the darkened terminal, a late arrival oon this day, the young man has been patient after a slight delay but finally, the girl comes through the arrivals gate to greet her close friend - loving the balloon gesture and pleased to be safely in his arms. Travelling down the escalator into a cross-terminal tunnel they leave the airport for home, 12 months before the terrorist attacks on America that changed the public's attitude to flying on commercial airliners.
    airport_welcome04-23-11-2000.jpg
  • Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London.
    chinese_wedding04-12-05-2015.jpg
  • Chinese wedding couple have their formal portrait taken in a tunnel opposite the Palace of Westminster, London.
    chinese_wedding03-12-05-2015.jpg
  • Angry residents from Kent march over the river Thames and past Parliament to protest over the planned high-speed (TGV-style) rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    rail_link_protest01-05-08-1989.jpg
  • A fence warns walkers to this part of the ancient woodland habitat in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 18th November 2020, in London, England. Once part of the Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway which once passed through this flat part of Sydenham Hill Woods, its track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost. Sydenham Hill Wood forms part of the largest remaining tract of the old Great North Wood, a vast area of worked coppices and wooded commons that once stretched across south London. The habitat is home to more than 200 species of trees and plants as well as rare fungi, insects, birds and woodland mammals.
    woodland_habitat02-18-11-2020.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood01-25-10-2020.jpg
  • A detail of home-made posters by residents from Kent over the planned high-speed (TGV-style) rail link from London to the south-east coast, on 5th August 1989, in London, England. Locals from the Darenth Valley in rural Kent, against the forthcoming Channel Tunnel rail link organised their own campaign to reverse decisions by British Rail to cut a new rail link through their community. British Rail announced that 150mph TGV trains would travel through their rural Kent countryside, forcing residents to sell their homes within a 240 metre corridor to the rail line, at great loss while splitting up the community.
    rail_link_protest02-05-08-1989.jpg
  • A bright, new blue office chair incongruously left in a street with stained Victorian brickwork of a tunnel, in the London district of Clerkenwell. Set against the poverty of the road arch brick, we see contemporary modern office furniture and a previous 19th century era.
    blue_chair01-28-02-2013.jpg
  • A woodland landscape of the iron Bridge that spans the former Victorian railway line that took visitors to Crystal Palace, in Sydenham Hill Woods, on 25th October 2020, in London, England. The Nunhead to Crystal Palace (High Level) railway once passed through the Wood, and the track bed can be followed to a disused and closed tunnel which is now a registered bat roost.
    sydenham_wood02-25-10-2020.jpg
  • Two passengers on Hammerton's Ferry, cross the river Thames between Marble Hill House on the north bank, and Ham on the southern bank, on 3rd February 2019, in London, England. Hammertons Ferry was originally opened in 1908 by Walter Hammerton and its current owners are Mr & Mrs Francis Spencer in July, 2003. The whole family are currently involved in all aspects of the business, however the daily running of the Ferry is by father & son, Francis & Andrew Spencer. Hammerton's is a pedestrian and cycle ferry service across the River Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England. The ferry links the northern bank near Marble Hill House in Twickenham with the southern bank near Ham House in Ham. Foot passengers pay £1 with children and bikes paying 50p and it is one of only four remaining ferry routes in London not to be replaced by a bridge or tunnel.
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  • The Sir Christopher, an SR.N4 Hovercraft arriving at Ramsgate from the French coast. The SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) hovercraft was a large passenger and vehicle carrying hovercraft  built by the British Hovercraft Corporation  (BHC). Work on the SR.N4 began in 1965 and the first trials took place in early 1968. The SR.N4 was the largest hovercraft built to that date, designed to carry 254 passengers in two cabins besides a two-lane automobile bay which held up to 30 cars. Cars were driven from a bow ramp just forward of the cockpit / wheelhouse.  The SR.N4's operated services across the English Channel between 1968 and 2000, when the Channel Tunnel made their service unprofitable.
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  • From Passo Falzarega (Pass), a cable car gondola ascends the rock face of Lagazuoi  (3,244 m), a Dolomites mountain in south Tyrol, Italy.  One of two gondolas rises to the Lagazuoi (2,835), which was the object of heavy combat in World War I. Lagazuoi is a mountain in the Dolomites of northern Italy, lying at an altitude of 2,835 metres (9,301 ft), about 18 kilometres (11 mi) southwest by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Veneto Region. It is accessible by cable car and contains the Refugio Lagazuoi, a mountain refuge situated beyond the northwest corner of Cima del Lago. The mountain range is well known for its wartime tunnels.
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  • From Passo Falzarega (Pass), a cable car gondola ascends the rock face of Lagazuoi  (3,244 m), a Dolomites mountain in south Tyrol, Italy.  One of two gondolas rises to the Lagazuoi (2,835), which was the object of heavy combat in World War I. Lagazuoi is a mountain in the Dolomites of northern Italy, lying at an altitude of 2,835 metres (9,301 ft), about 18 kilometres (11 mi) southwest by road from Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Veneto Region. It is accessible by cable car and contains the Refugio Lagazuoi, a mountain refuge situated beyond the northwest corner of Cima del Lago. The mountain range is well known for its wartime tunnels.
    passo_falzarego08-20-07-2015.jpg
  • Boy climbs through tunnels in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
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  • Boy climbs through tunnels in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
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  • Boy climbs through tunnels in risk averse playground called The Land on Plas Madoc Estate, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
    the_land60-18-06-2014.jpg
  • A Newspaper seller displays copies of the London tabloid aimed at commuters The Evening Standard, on sale here at Monument underground station. On this day, the headline is about the tube and rail strike that inconvenienced thousands of Londoners on 21st June 1989. Passengers who might have descended into the subterranean tunnels of this Victorian transport system, purchase their favoured paper containing all the news of the industrial action.
    strike_newspapers01-21-06-1989.jpg
  • A Newspaper seller displays copies of the London tabloid aimed at commuters The Evening Standard, on sale here at Monument underground station. On this day, the headline is about the tube and rail strike that inconvenienced thousands of Londoners on 21st June 1989. Passengers who might have descended into the subterranean tunnels of this Victorian transport system, purchase their favoured paper containing all the news of the industrial action.
    strike_newspapers02-21-06-1989.jpg
  • Looking at International Arrivals of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. Designed by architects Richard Rogers Partnership the controversial building opened with chaotic scenes on 27/3/08. British Airways passengers faced baggage disruption after a 6 year construction project that has seen the British public divided over the role of commercial aviation. At a cost of £4.3bn, the project was Britain's longest planning inquiry which lasted four years but finally employing a total of 60,000 workers. 30,000 square metres of glass in walls; 80,000 tonnes of steel were used - 17,000 in the roof alone; 5,000 doors, 800 toilets, 20,000 power sockets and 1,700 miles of cable; 60 new aircraft stands, including 14 for the Airbus A380; 13km of tunnels were bored for the state-of-the-art baggage handling to handle 12,000 bags per hour.
    heathrow_terminal_five-20-17-03-2008.jpg
  • Ancient Greek texts on statue plinth. Original texts on a statue plinth near the main tunneled entrance of the 'Stadion', Ancient Olympia's running track. heroic athletes had statues commissioned in their victorious honour as well as past cheats whose dishonesty discouraged others into making the Olympics a festival of honesty. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and the birthplace of athletics was among the woodland of Ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now and the 2004 Athens Olympiad will echo both what was great and horrid about the past.
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