The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road. The northern portal lies just south of the East India Dock Road (A13) in Blackwall; the southern entrances are just south of The O2 on the Greenwich Peninsula. The road is managed by Transport for London (TfL).
Southern entrance to the Victorian bore
A framing section of the Blackwall Tunnel being constructed at the Thames Ironworks around 1895
The northern ventilation towers for the new Blackwall tunnel, February 2006
Southern Tunnel House, at the southern entrance to the tunnel. The gateway house is now Grade II listed.
The A13 is a major road in England linking Central London with east London and south Essex. Its route is similar to that of the London, Tilbury and Southend line via Rainham, Grays, Tilbury, Stanford-Le-Hope & Pitsea, and runs the entire length of the northern Thames Gateway area, terminating on the Thames Estuary at Shoeburyness. It is a trunk road between London and the Tilbury junction, a primary route between there and Sadlers Hall Farm near South Benfleet, and a non-primary route between there and Shoeburyness.
Commercial Road looking west near Limehouse railway station
Newham Way looking west between A406 and A117 junctions (the latter just ahead)
Sadlers Farm Roundabout