We have received an update on the Thames Tideway’s latest Community Liaison Working Group: This week marked the beginning of the end for Thames Tideway’s Greenwich Connection Tunnel – and for the Tunnel Boring Machine Annie. Annie started from Greenwich Pumping Station - GREPS - on Norman Road last winter, and has just arrived at the destination for the Greenwich Connection Tunnel: Chambers Wharf, just downstream from Tower Bridge. There is as of this week a new tunnel between Greenwich and Tower Bridge. How often can you say that! So the last barge load of chalky tunnel soil is now being shipped out of Deptford Creek , and TTT’s GREPS contractor, AVB, will now start dismantling the Phoenix Wharf machinery used to ship out the tunnel spoil. AVB are very pleased with themselves, both for making the tunnel breakthrough, and for managing to get much more spoil out by barge, not lorry, during the tunnelling (41%, not the orig...