Round fanshaft-type thing near the East India Dock Link (road) Tunnel
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en....08 ,,0,-0.18 It seems to be simultaneously too far from the line of the tunnel and too near to the mouth of the tunnel to be connected with it, and yet I suspect it is connected to it, but what is it? |
Round fanshaft-type thing near the East India Dock Link (road)Tunnel
Basil Jet wrote on 16 September 2013 00:20:18 ...
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en....08 ,,0,-0.18 It seems to be simultaneously too far from the line of the tunnel and too near to the mouth of the tunnel to be connected with it, and yet I suspect it is connected to it, but what is it? It certainly looks like a vent/intervention shaft for the road tunnel. There is an emergency exit in the offside wall of each tunnel bore, roughly at the mid-point of the tunnels, just south-west of where they pass under Leamouth Road. (Look for the green signs in the tunnel on Street View.) You would expect there to be an exit portal on the empty patch of land above it, but there's nothing. So perhaps the emergency exit doors in the tunnel lead to a path just below the surface which ends at the mystery structure. Possibly there were problems obtaining access to anywhere closer. -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
Round fanshaft-type thing near the East India Dock Link (road)Tunnel
On 2013\09\16 17:15, Richard J. wrote:
Basil Jet wrote on 16 September 2013 00:20:18 ... https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en....08 ,,0,-0.18 It seems to be simultaneously too far from the line of the tunnel and too near to the mouth of the tunnel to be connected with it, and yet I suspect it is connected to it, but what is it? It certainly looks like a vent/intervention shaft for the road tunnel. There is an emergency exit in the offside wall of each tunnel bore, roughly at the mid-point of the tunnels, just south-west of where they pass under Leamouth Road. (Look for the green signs in the tunnel on Street View.) You would expect there to be an exit portal on the empty patch of land above it, but there's nothing. So perhaps the emergency exit doors in the tunnel lead to a path just below the surface which ends at the mystery structure. Possibly there were problems obtaining access to anywhere closer. Thanks. There are three or four of those green lights, and I strongly suspect that they just lead to the other tunnel, not the surface. |
Round fanshaft-type thing near the East India Dock Link (road)Tunnel
Basil Jet wrote on 16 September 2013 21:09:12 ...
On 2013\09\16 17:15, Richard J. wrote: Basil Jet wrote on 16 September 2013 00:20:18 ... https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en....08 ,,0,-0.18 It seems to be simultaneously too far from the line of the tunnel and too near to the mouth of the tunnel to be connected with it, and yet I suspect it is connected to it, but what is it? It certainly looks like a vent/intervention shaft for the road tunnel. There is an emergency exit in the offside wall of each tunnel bore, roughly at the mid-point of the tunnels, just south-west of where they pass under Leamouth Road. (Look for the green signs in the tunnel on Street View.) You would expect there to be an exit portal on the empty patch of land above it, but there's nothing. So perhaps the emergency exit doors in the tunnel lead to a path just below the surface which ends at the mystery structure. Possibly there were problems obtaining access to anywhere closer. Thanks. There are three or four of those green lights, and I strongly suspect that they just lead to the other tunnel, not the surface. Ooh, yes. There are in fact 3 exits per tunnel bore, numbered 1W, 2W, 3W for the eastbound bore (sic), and 1E, 2E, 3E for the westbound. (The road, which is really Aspen Way, runs generally east-west, except for this bit of tunnel which is sort-of north-south, hence the curious compass IDs.) -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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