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    River Thames Central London Tower Hill Tooley Street London Clay Shield Peter W. Barlow 2 FT 6 in Narrow Gauge

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    The Tower Subway was a 1,340-foot tunnel built under the River Thames in London in 1869 using a cast iron shield, providing the first pedestrian connection between Tower Hill and Tooley Street. A narrow gauge railway operated uneconomically for a year before it was converted to pedestrian use, charging a toll of one ha'penny per crossing. It closed in 1898 after over a million annual crossings dropped due to the opening of the nearby toll-free Tower Bridge. The same tunnel construction method was later used for London's first underground electric railway.

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    The Tower Subway was a 1,340-foot tunnel built under the River Thames in London in 1869 using a cast iron shield, providing the first pedestrian connection between Tower Hill and Tooley Street. A narrow gauge railway operated uneconomically for a year before it was converted to pedestrian use, charging a toll of one ha'penny per crossing. It closed in 1898 after over a million annual crossings dropped due to the opening of the nearby toll-free Tower Bridge. The same tunnel construction method was later used for London's first underground electric railway.

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    The Tower Subway was a 1,340-foot tunnel built under the River Thames in London in 1869 using a cast iron shield, providing the first pedestrian connection between Tower Hill and Tooley Street. A narrow gauge railway operated uneconomically for a year before it was converted to pedestrian use, charging a toll of one ha'penny per crossing. It closed in 1898 after over a million annual crossings dropped due to the opening of the nearby toll-free Tower Bridge. The same tunnel construction method was later used for London's first underground electric railway.

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    The Tower Subway was a 1,340-foot tunnel built under the River Thames in London in 1869 using a cast iron shield, providing the first pedestrian connection between Tower Hill and Tooley Street. A narrow gauge railway operated uneconomically for a year before it was converted to pedestrian use, charging a toll of one ha'penny per crossing. It closed in 1898 after over a million annual crossings dropped due to the opening of the nearby toll-free Tower Bridge. The same tunnel construction method was later used for London's first underground electric railway.

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    The Tower Subway is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in central London, between Tower Hill on

    the north bank of the river and Vine Lane (off Tooley Street) on the south. In 1869 a 1,340-foot-long
    (410 m) circular tunnel was dug through the London clay using a cast iron shield, an idea that had
    been patented in 1864 by Peter W. Barlow but never built.[1]
    A 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway was laid in the tunnel and from August 1870 a cable-
    hauled wooden carriage conveyed passengers from one end to the other. This was uneconomic and
    the company went bankrupt by the end of the year. The tunnel was converted to pedestrian use and
    one million people a year crossed under the river, paying a toll of a ha'penny. The opening of the toll-
    free Tower Bridge nearby in 1894 caused a drop in income and the tunnel closed in 1898, after
    being sold to the London Hydraulic Power Company. Today the tunnel is used for water mains.
    The same shield method of construction was used in 1890 to dig the tunnels of the City and South
    London Railway, the first of London's electrified "Tube" railways and the first underground electrified
    railway in the world.[2]

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