Crossings of the River Thames

This is a list Crossings of the River Thames, downstream first.

Table of contents

1 East London 2 City 3 Westminster 4 Kensington and Chelsea 5 Kingston and Richmond 6 Outer London 7 Berkshire and Beyond

East London

• Dartford Crossing including two Dartford Tunnels (1963 and 1980) and the Queen Elizabeth II suspension Bridge (1991)
• Woolwich foot tunnel (1912)
• Woolwich Ferry
• Thames Barrier
• Jubilee Line tunnel (between North Greenwich and Canning Town; 1999)
• Blackwall Tunnels (Alexander Binnie, 1897; second bore 1967)
• Jubilee Line tunnel (between Canary Wharf and North Greenwich; 1999)
• Docklands Light Railway (1999)
• Greenwich foot tunnel (Alexander Binnie, 1902)
• Jubilee Line tunnel (between Canada Water and Canary Wharf; 1999)
• Rotherhithe Tunnel (Maurice Fitzmaurice, 1908)
• Thames foot tunnel (Wapping to Rotherhithe Tunnel) (Marc Brunel, 1843; the world's first underwater tunnel, now part of the East London Line)

City

• Tower Bridge (1894)
• Tower Subway (Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead, 1870; originally the world's first underground tube railway, then a foot tunnel, it now carries pipes and fibre-optic cables)
• Northern Line (City branch) tunnel (1900)
• London Bridge (1973)
• Cannon Street Railway Bridge (1982)
• Southwark Bridge (1921)
• Millennium Bridge (2002)
• Blackfriars Railway Bridge (1886)
• Blackfriars Bridge (1869)

Westminster

• Waterloo and City Line tunnel (1898)
• Waterloo Bridge (1945)
• Northern Line (Charing Cross branch) tunnel (1926)
• Hungerford Footbridges (2002)
• Charing Cross (Hungerford) Bridge (1864)
• Bakerloo Line tunnel (1906)
• Jubilee Line tunnel (between Westminster and Waterloo; 1999)
• Westminster Bridge (1862)
• Lambeth Bridge (1932)
• Vauxhall Bridge (1906)
• Victoria Line tunnel (1971)
• Victoria Railway Bridge (Grosvenor Bridge) (1859)

Kensington and Chelsea

• Chelsea Bridge (1937)
• Albert Bridge (1873)
• Battersea Bridge (1890)
• Battersea Railway Bridge (1863)
• Wandsworth Bridge (1938)
• Fulham Railway Bridge (1889)
• Putney Bridge (Sir Joseph Bazalgette, 1886)

Kingston and Richmond

• Hammersmith Bridge (Sir Joseph Bazalgette, 1887)
• Barnes Railway Bridge (1849)
• Chiswick Bridge (1933)
• Kew Railway Bridge (1869)
• Kew Bridge (John Wolfe-Barry, 1903)
• Richmond Footbridge (1894)
• Twickenham Bridge (1933)
• Richmond Railway Bridge (1848)
• Richmond Bridge (1777)
• Teddington Lock Footbridge
• Kingston Railway Bridge (1863)
• Kingston Bridge (1828)
• Hampton Court Bridge (1933)
• Walton Bridge (1954)

Outer London

• Chertsey Bridge (1785)
• M3 Motorway Bridge (1971)
• Staines Railway Bridge (1856)
• Staines Bridge (1832)
• Runnymede Bridge (1961) (M25 motorway bridge added 1983)

Berkshire and Beyond

• Albert Bridge, Datchet (1928?)
• Victoria Bridge, Datchet (1967?)
• Black Pott's Railway Bridge (1892)
• Windsor Bridge (1824)
• Windsor Railway Bridge (1849)
• Windsor By-pass Bridge (1966)
• Summerleaze Footbridge (1992)
• M4 Bridge (1961)
• Maidenhead Railway Bridge (1838)
• Maidenhead Bridge (1777)
• Boulter's Lock Bridge (1912)
• Cookham Bridge (1867)
• Bourne End Railway Bridge (1895)
• Bourne End Footbridge (c.1998)
• Marlow By-pass Bridge (1972)
• Marlow Bridge (William Tierney Clark, 1832)
• Temple Footbridge (1989)
• Henley Bridge (1786)
• Shiplake Railway Bridge (1897)
• Sonning Bridge (c.1775)
• Reading Bridge (1923)
• Caversham Bridge (1926)
• Pangbourne Bridge
• Goring Railway Bridge
• Goring Bridge

etc.

There are also many tunnels used by "tube" trains as part of the London Underground network or (at Greenwich), the Docklands Light Railway, and a free ferry for vehicles, cycles and people on foot during daylight hours at Woolwich. A further tunnel is under construction as part of a high speed international railway line between Ebbsfleet in Kent and Stratford in Newham. It is due to be completed in 2007 and will be downstream of all older crossings.