Tunnel Boring Machine

Or should that be the Boring Tunnel Machine? No seriously this is Sophia - the tunnel boring machine which is about to start boring a tunnel from Plumstead towards Canary Wharf. It will form part of the new Cross Rail Scheme which will connect the rail services from the east side of London to the west side. At present it is the largest engineering project in Europe. The machine was named after Sophia, the wife of Marc Brunel who dug the world's first underwater in London. Now as you can imagine this is not really my thing, but as Peter had the chance to view the this part of the project as it was about to get started, I thought I'd be nice to him and post one of his pictures. Thank you all for your recent comments and fav's all very much appreciated.

[Rosie Kind]

Gosh this is very interesting even if it is not your thing! Nice composition Peter

[Al Bailey]

I must be a geek because I found this really interesting! :)

[Judith Greenwood]

Well it's fascinating. Have you seen the model in the London Transport museum showing how the Tube was dug? They'd have loved one of these...

[Phil Howcroft]

wow this is fab judith , i love how close you are to this super machine

[Mair]

Fascinating machine.

[bernadette mcelligott]

glad you did post, otherwise we would never get to see something like this.

[Caz]

This was really interesting to me Judith, I had no idea !

[Alison Tomlin]

Hmm very interesting I do like a bit of large scale engineering. Although its cited as one of the reasons why Leeds is the largest city in Europe with no rapid transit system!

[carol white]

Great shot!!

[Ian Fisher]

Fantastic shot of this wonderful massive machine! Crossrail is a fascinating project.

[Shepherdman]

Fascinating image and text