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by goatforce5 3411 days ago
Slight tangent:

The world's first tunnel under a river was completed by Brunel in 1843 and is still in use today by Transport for London for as part of the London Overground network (ignore the confusing naming - the Overground is like the Underground, but the service operates at longer intervals).

The Wikipedia page has a lot of detail about how it was constructed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel