Watched a documentary about the Channel Tunnel on Channel (tunnel) 5 last night. Was really interesting stuff. I’d heard about the rabies fear-mongering before, but I didn’t realise that there were loads of 80s Gammons kicking off about it being built and rioting. Also showed some of the alternatives that were proposed such as artificial islands with massive bridges between them, and an underground motorway with giant ugly ventilation shafts sticking out into the Channel.
Anyway feel free to post any Channel Tunnel chat here. I went on it the other month. It was “alright”
I always wondered how they could be confident that the two holes they were drilling would meet in the middle. How did they measure the direction of the holes accurately?
remember that tv show the tunnel that was an adaptation of that other tv show the bridge which also became another tv show the border and probably some other tv shows
The first time I went on the Eurostar I had it in my head that most of the journey to Paris was in a tunnel, turns out you’re only in a tunnel for like 15 minutes of a two and a half hour journey. Pretty disappointing to be honest, should have made the whole journey a tunnel
I remember being a bit underwhelmed by it at first, then discovering I had full mobile reception! I was able to phone people from under the sea! We really are living in the future.
