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  A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!

  By Robin McAuley 1853 days ago Comments (8)

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  I think a good deal of the tunnel under the English channel has been dug with TBMs. But these last points were dug manually and there you go! Two sides meet each other under the sea!  
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  Eurotunnel English Channel tunnel geological profile.

  It is amazing how the tunnellers followed the chalk layer.     Image by: Commander Keane [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

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  1853 days ago

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  Channel tunnel Eurotunnel operator Getlink (formerly Groupe Eurotunnel) forms French regional rail venture. https://www.sharecast.com/news/international-companies/channel-tunnel-operator-getlink-forms-french-regional-rail-venture--7133417.html #chunnel

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  1621 days ago