Crossings of the River Thames
This is a list of Crossings of the River Thames, downstream first.
Kent
East London
- Dartford Crossing including two Dartford Tunnels (1963 and 1980) and the Queen Elizabeth II cable-stayed bridge (1991)
- Dartford Cable Tunnel, a new circa 3 metre diameter tunnel built upstream of the Dartford Tunnels in 2003-4 and designed to carry and allow for maintenance of 400kV national electrical grid cable beneath the Thames; it is accessible by foot as a crossing of the Thames, but by authorised personnel only.
- Thames Gateway Bridge, expected to be built between 2009 and 2013 to connect Beckton in the borough of Newham with Thamesmead in the borough of Greenwich.
- Woolwich foot tunnel (1912)
- Woolwich Ferry
- Thames Barrier - like the Dartford Cable Tunnel, this connects both banks of the river via a service tunnel accessible by authorised personnel only.
- Jubilee Line tunnel (between North Greenwich and Canning Town; 1999)
- Blackwall Tunnels (Alexander Binnie, 1897; second bore 1967)
- Jubilee Line tunnel (between Canary Wharf and North Greenwich; 1999)
- Docklands Light Railway (1999)
- Greenwich foot tunnel (Alexander Binnie, 1902)
- Jubilee Line tunnel (between Canada Water and Canary Wharf; 1999)
- Rotherhithe Tunnel (Maurice Fitzmaurice, 1908)
- Thames Tunnel (Wapping to Rotherhithe Tunnel) (Marc Brunel, 1843; the world's first underwater tunnel, now part of the East London Line)
- Tower Bridge (1894)
- Tower Subway (Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead, 1870; originally the world's first underground railway, later a foot tunnel, and now carrying pipes and fibre-optic cables)
City
Westminster
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston and Richmond
Outer London
- Chertsey Bridge (1785)
- M3 Motorway Bridge (1971)
- Staines Railway Bridge (1856)
- Staines Bridge (1832)
- Runnymede Bridge (1961) (M25 motorway bridge added 1983)
Windsor to Maidenhead
- Albert Bridge (1928)
- Victoria Bridge (1967)
- Black Pott's Railway Bridge (1892)
- Windsor Bridge (1824)
- Windsor Railway Bridge (1849)
- Windsor By-pass Bridge (1966)
- Summerleaze Footbridge (1992)
- M4 Bridge (1961)
- Maidenhead Railway Bridge (Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1838)
- Maidenhead Bridge (1777)
Maidenhead to Reading
- Boulter's Lock Bridge (1912)
- Cookham Bridge (1867)
- Bourne End Railway Bridge (1895)
- Bourne End Footbridge (c.1998)
- Marlow By-pass Bridge (1972)
- Marlow Bridge (William Tierney Clark, 1832)
- Temple Footbridge (1989)
- Henley Bridge (1786)
- Shiplake Railway Bridge (1897)
- Sonning Bridge (c.1775)
- Reading Bridge (1923)
- Caversham Bridge (1926)
Reading to Abingdon
- Whitchurch Bridge (1902) - Toll Bridge from Whitchurch-on-Thames to Pangbourne
- Gatehampton Railway Bridge
- Goring and Streatley Bridge (1923)
- Moulsford Railway Bridge
- Wallingford By-pass Bridge
- Wallingford Bridge (1809)
- Shillingford Bridge (1827)
- Day's Lock Footbridge (1870)
- Clifton Hampden Bridge (George Gilbert Scott,1867)
- Appleford Railway Bridge (1929)
- A415 road bridge
- Abingdon Bridge (1416)
Abingdon to Oxford
- Nuneham Railway Bridge (1929)
- Kennington Railway Bridge (1923)
- Isis Road Bridge A423 (1962)
- Donnington Bridge (1962)
- Folly Bridge (1827)
- Oxford Footbridge
- Osney Footbridge
- Osney Rail Bridge
- Osney Bridge (1885)
Oxford to Lechlade
- Medley Footbridge
- Godstow Bridge (1792)
- A34 Road Bridge
- Swinford Toll Bridge (1777)
- Hart's Weir Footbridge
- Newbridge (13th century)
- Tenfoot Bridge
- Tadpole Bridge
- Radcot Bridge (1787)
- Eaton Footbridge
- Bloomer's Hole Footbridge
- St. John's Bridge (1886)
- Halfpenny Bridge (James Hollingworth, 1792) - the start of the navigable Thames
Lechlade to Cricklade
- Hannington Bridge
- Castle Eaton Bridge
- Water Eaton House Bridge
- Eysey Footbridge
- Cricklade High Bridge
There are also many tunnels used by Tube trains as part of the London Underground network or (at Greenwich), the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), and a free ferry for vehicles, cycles and people on foot during daylight hours at Woolwich. Another tunnel is due to be built for the proposed DLR extension to Woolwich. A further tunnel is under construction as part of a high speed international railway line between Ebbsfleet in Kent and Stratford in Newham. It is due to be completed in 2007 and will be downstream of all older crossings. See Thames tunnels for a complete list.
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