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Quote from: Snoopy on December 22, 2009, 09:31:46 AMQuote from: Barman on December 22, 2009, 09:06:42 AMI followed the chunnel from the early design competition (there were proposals that you could drive through it), through 'breakthrough', sadness that the boring machines were just dumped down there and finally the first services...Naturally, all the media cared about was the mahoosive debts that the company had... they lost interest after that until there was a fire down there... Finally, there is a meeja frenzy because a few trains broke down...I think the amazing thing about it was that it was ever built at all... I just can't imagine the country managing such an engineering feat these days... what does that say about the shit hole that was a once great country that our parents fought for...? See also: Concorde, VC10, Trident, Harrier, QE2, etc. Didn't realise you had been around that long BM ...... 1880 is when the first serious attempt at building a tunnel was made I have core samples taken from the mid point of the tunnel. My eldest daughter was at the breakthrough in fact as she was the PA to the English team that made the final connection ~ So I have loads of photos etc (somewhere)BTW at least two of the boring machines came out alive .... One is on show on this side of the channel and the other is on a roundabout just outside of Calais. That is a relief... how many TBMs were there...?
Quote from: Barman on December 22, 2009, 09:06:42 AMI followed the chunnel from the early design competition (there were proposals that you could drive through it), through 'breakthrough', sadness that the boring machines were just dumped down there and finally the first services...Naturally, all the media cared about was the mahoosive debts that the company had... they lost interest after that until there was a fire down there... Finally, there is a meeja frenzy because a few trains broke down...I think the amazing thing about it was that it was ever built at all... I just can't imagine the country managing such an engineering feat these days... what does that say about the shit hole that was a once great country that our parents fought for...? See also: Concorde, VC10, Trident, Harrier, QE2, etc. Didn't realise you had been around that long BM ...... 1880 is when the first serious attempt at building a tunnel was made I have core samples taken from the mid point of the tunnel. My eldest daughter was at the breakthrough in fact as she was the PA to the English team that made the final connection ~ So I have loads of photos etc (somewhere)BTW at least two of the boring machines came out alive .... One is on show on this side of the channel and the other is on a roundabout just outside of Calais.
I followed the chunnel from the early design competition (there were proposals that you could drive through it), through 'breakthrough', sadness that the boring machines were just dumped down there and finally the first services...Naturally, all the media cared about was the mahoosive debts that the company had... they lost interest after that until there was a fire down there... Finally, there is a meeja frenzy because a few trains broke down...I think the amazing thing about it was that it was ever built at all... I just can't imagine the country managing such an engineering feat these days... what does that say about the shit hole that was a once great country that our parents fought for...? See also: Concorde, VC10, Trident, Harrier, QE2, etc.
