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The Channel Tunnel: Building the World's Longest Undersea Tunnel

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Building the Channel Tunnel

A chronicle of an engineering marvel and the challenges that almost brought it to ruin. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawing their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three. A ...
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Safety in the Underground Construction and Operation of the Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain

The paper begins with a brief outline of the scope and size of the Channel Tunnel project and the author's particular role of control of four types of underground logistic service: a 900-mm ...
Railway Technology

The future is now for the Channel Tunnel

Preventive maintenance operations on the sleeper blocks during night works. Credit: GetLink Though there are hundreds of new rail infrastructure projects each year in Europe, few have perhaps retained ...