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Description: | The Piccadilly line was extended in 1977 to link with Heathrow airport.
Tunnels were dug using boring equipment known as tunnelling shields. These had power-driven 'boom cutters', which broke up and cut through the clay soil. Once the shield had bored a stretch of tunnel, it supported it while reinforcing work was carried out.
This construction worker is adjusting the controls of the shield, which has just broken through the concrete wall to Heathrow Central station. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Work | Temporal: | 6 May 1974 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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