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Wapping Station, seen shortly before opening as London Overground. Previously a station on the East London Line of the Underground.
Signalling and power cabling inside the Tunnel. At the top can still be seen teh time-honoured 'contact wires'; when these are touched together (usually by the driver of a failed train) they cut off the power to the third rail and illuminate the tunnel lights so the train can be evacuated safely.
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The London Overground service between Highbury & Islington and New Cross/New Cross Gate was suspended over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (24-26 May 2014) to adapt the line to take 5-car trains. The London Transport Museum took advantage of the closure to offer escorted walks through the tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping Stations.
The Tunnel was originally built as a pedestrian tunnel and opened in 1843; it was the only project on which Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, worked together. It was sold for railway use in 1869, the first trains running four years later.
The tunnel was extensively renovated during the 1990s, during which most of it was restored to its original appearance.
Wapping Station, on the former East London Line, now a London Overground Station, with one of the Brunel's original Thames Tunnel shafts in the centre which now houses the stairwell down to the platforms.
In 1995 artist and illustrator Nick Hardcastle was commissioned by London Underground to illustrate Wapping, both past and present, with the resulting large enamel panels being displayed on the station. This one illustrates a goods train disappearing into the Thames tunnel with a northbound passenger train emerging. The scene is set in the 1960s.
Illustrated map of Wapping, London.
Created for 21 Wapping Lane apartment building.
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Photo by Mark Osborn
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Snow in Wapping, London E1W
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Die Externsteine sind eine Felsengruppe im Teutoburger Wald bei Horn - Bad Meinberg.
The Extern Stones are a rock group in the Teutoburg Forest in Horn - Bad Meinberg.
Les pierres Extern sont un groupe de rock dans la forêt de Teutoburg en Horn - Bad Meinberg.
Wapping is one of my favourite areas of London. Once a busy dock, when the docks closed much of the area became run-down. Today it is one of the richest parts of London, with the old wharfes now transformed into luxury flats, but unlike many areas of London, the transformation has taken place whilst retaining it's history. The old wharfes are now beautifully restored, and the narrow, winding cobbled streets give the area a lot of character.