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- Thames_Archway_Company abstract "The Thames Archway Company was a company formed in 1805 to build the first tunnel under the Thames river in London.The development of dockyards on both sides of the river around the Isle of Dogs indicated that a river crossing of some kind was needed. A tunnel from Rotherhithe to Limehouse was suggested in about 1803 in which the Nothumbrian engineer Robert Vazie became involved. An Act of Parliament was obtained on 12 July 1805 which enabled the Thames Archway Company to start construction.The idea was to bore a pilot tunnel or 'driftway' starting from a shaft to be sunk in Rotherhithe (i.e. from the south bank). The driftway was supposed to drain the surrounding bedrock and then be enlarged into a full, brick-arched tunnel which would accommodate two-way vehicular traffic. Unfortunately the firm strata anticipated were mostly sand and gravel with pockets of quicksand. After a year Vazie had only driven a shaft 12.8 m deep and money was running out.In 1807 the directors of the company brought in Richard Trevithick who agreed to take the driftway across the river for a success fee of £1,000. Employing Cornish miners to dig and a 30 horsepower steam engine to pump, he eventually succeeded in making the driftway 313 metres from the Rotherhithe shaft: he had tunnelled under the Thames, albeit only beyond the low-water mark. This was the first time that anyone had made a tunnel pass underneath the actual water of any river. However, it remained to complete the excavation under the high-water mark, and this Trevithick was unable to do, owing to breakthroughs of quicksand.The failure of the Thames Archway project led engineers to conclude that \"an underground tunnel is impracticable\".About 40 years later Marc Isambard Brunel and Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the Thames Tunnel about half a mile upstream.".
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- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageLength "2948".
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- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageRevisionID "673746848".
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:1805_establishments_in_England.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_established_in_1805.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tunnels_underneath_the_River_Thames.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Company.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Isle_of_Dogs.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Limehouse.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink London.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Marc_Isambard_Brunel.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Quicksand.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Trevithick.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink River_Thames.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Vazie.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Rotherhithe.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLink Thames_Tunnel.
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageWikiLinkText "Thames Archway Company".
- Thames_Archway_Company wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Thames_Archway_Company subject Category:1805_establishments_in_England.
- Thames_Archway_Company subject Category:Companies_established_in_1805.
- Thames_Archway_Company subject Category:Tunnels_underneath_the_River_Thames.
- Thames_Archway_Company hypernym Company.
- Thames_Archway_Company type Company.
- Thames_Archway_Company type Company.
- Thames_Archway_Company type Establishment.
- Thames_Archway_Company comment "The Thames Archway Company was a company formed in 1805 to build the first tunnel under the Thames river in London.The development of dockyards on both sides of the river around the Isle of Dogs indicated that a river crossing of some kind was needed. A tunnel from Rotherhithe to Limehouse was suggested in about 1803 in which the Nothumbrian engineer Robert Vazie became involved.".
- Thames_Archway_Company label "Thames Archway Company".
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- Thames_Archway_Company wasDerivedFrom Thames_Archway_Company?oldid=673746848.
- Thames_Archway_Company isPrimaryTopicOf Thames_Archway_Company.