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Greenwich foot tunnel

 The length of the tunnel is 1215 ft (370.2) m


 The deep of the tunnel is 50 ft (15.2 )m
 The diameter of the tunnel is 9ft(2.74)

The task began in June 1899 and the passage opened on 4 August 1902. The passage supplanted a
costly and now and again problematic ship administration permitting laborers living south of the Thames
to arrive at their working environments in the London moors and shipyards in or close to the Isle of
Canines. Its creation owed a lot to the endeavors of common lawmaker Will Convicts, who had worked
in the docks and, in the wake of leading the LCC's Extensions Council liable for the passage, later filled in
as Work MP for Woolwich.

The part of the passage that was fixed following harm during The Second Great War

The entry shafts at the two closures are underneath coated vaults. Lifts, introduced in 1904, were
overhauled in 1992 and again in 2012, and helical flights of stairs permit people on foot to get to the tile-
lined burrow, which slants tenderly from the two sides down to a halfway low point underneath the
waterway. The cast-iron passage is 1,215 feet (370.2 m) long, 50 feet (15.2 m) deep [3] and has an inner
width of around 9 feet (2.74 m). The cast-iron rings are covered with concrete and surfaced for certain
200,000 white coated tiles. The northern end was harmed by bombs during WWII and fixes incorporated
a thick steel and cement internal covering that considerably diminishes the width for a brief distance.
The northern shaft flight of stairs has 87 stages; the southern one has 100.

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