The tunnel which runs under the Thames from this station was the first tunnel for public traffic ever to be driven beneath a river It was designed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel 1769-1849 and completed in 1843 His son Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806-1859 was engineer-in-charge from 1825 to 1828.
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