General Information
| Completion: | 1970 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Utility tunnel |
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| Structure: |
Tunnel with segmental lining |
Location
| Location: |
Tilbury, Thurrock, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom Gravesend, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom |
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| Underneath of: |
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| Coordinates: | 51° 26' 33.34" N 0° 24' 26.01" E |
| Coordinates: | 51° 27' 14.37" N 0° 23' 33.31" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| length | 1 675 m | |
| depth | ca. 46 m |
Cost
| cost of construction | ca. Pound sterling 3 000 000 |
Materials
| tubbings |
precast reinforced concrete
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Thames Cable Tunnel, also known as the Tilbury – Gravesend Cable Tunnel, is a tunnel carrying high-voltage electrical transmission lines beneath the lower River Thames between Tilbury and Gravesend. It remains the furthest tunnel downstream on the Thames.
Completed in 1970 at a cost of around £3 million (equivalent to £47 million in 2019) by the Central Electricity Generating Board, the tunnel carries 400 kV transmission cables between substations at Tilbury and Kingsnorth as part of the National Grid. The tunnel is approximately 45 metres (148 ft) deep, and was one of the first tunnels in the UK to be lined with pre-cast concrete segments rather than cast iron. A tunnel was chosen due to the high costs of building an overhead transmission line at this point in the river.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Thames Cable Tunnel" and modified on November 28, 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1969): Thames Cable Tunnel. In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, v. 44, n. 4 (December 1969), pp. 323-340.
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26/11/2020
