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I still feel bad that Robbins is now a Chinese company...Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
What an achievement man! A great leap for the mankind!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!"
...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 (but not surprising)...Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
Looking at the meeting point on the drawing, it looks like the English did the most of the boring and the French just waited!Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
@Lutz I guess it is a fairly precise comment -:) No doubt the French demanded and got the half the credit though... @Martin thanks for sharing the great graphics here.Comment on "WTC 2019 - World Tunnel Congress 2019 - Napoli/Naples"
Could it be an idea to meet up in Naples?Comment on "Mumbai Metro 3 - Double TBM breakthrough at Dadar"
impressive... What was the geology like? Any info?
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