Disover The Real London
Greenwich Foot Tunnel
All true Londoners love a tunnel, and one of the best and most accessible is the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. It was built in 1902 by London City Council's chief engineer Alexander Binnie to give dockers a short cut under the River Thames from their south London homes to their workplace at Millwall and West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs.
Though largely superceded by the DLR extension to Lewisham, the 370-metre long tiled tunnel is still open 24-hours a day, allowing an eerie and echoey passage 50 feet under the Thames. The Greenwich entrance comes up for air right by the Cutty Sark.
Cutty Sark DLR and Island Gardens DLR.
Greenwich.
129 and 286 go past the Cutty Sark. D3, D7 and N50 go to the bottom of the Isle of Dogs.
greenwich foot tunnel
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