Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
Dear @Ansh, channel tunnel geology may have been a dream geology for tunnellers but nevertheless, it does not change the fact that, it was a great tunnelling achievement. It is interesting (...Comment on "The day Britain ceased to be an island... #Eurotunnel is 25 years old!"
anybody know which TBMs they used then at Eurotunnel?Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
The Eurotunnel diggers motto was: FOLLOW THE CHALKComment on "Mumbai Metro 3 - Double TBM breakthrough at Dadar"
impressive... What was the geology like? Any info?Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
Geology of the channel made it a very easy tunnelling project. You can see that they can cut the tunnel like cutting cheese.Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
I completely agree that this -in my humble opinion- remains the greatest tunnelling achievement, regardless of geology, chalk whatever. This is the TOP!
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