THE top British feats of engineering and manufacturing include the London Underground, the Channel Tunnel – and the invention ...
Ever since the time of Napoleon, the idea of a tunnel under the English Channel has fascinated the French, and to a lesser degree the insular English. Bonaparte beamed at the thought of his dragoons ...
Eurotunnel, also known as the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel, is the largest privately financed transportation project in world history. When the Channel Tunnel became operational in May 1994, it was ...
Thirty years ago Queen Elizabeth II and French president Francois Mitterand officially opened the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone in Kent and Calais in northern France. So how much has the link ...
The building of the Channel Tunnel, one of the engineering wonders of modern times. Shows the planning, construction, completion and aftermath. In particular it shows the problems that had to be ...
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 ...
Passengers using the Channel Tunnel are facing long wait times this morning. There are three hours of delays for people ...
Exa Infrastructure and Colt Technology Services will upgrade fiber infrastructure along the Channel Tunnel connecting England with France. The two telecom infrastructure companies will combine to ...
(Reuters) - The Paris Commercial court on Monday approved a debt-reduction plan for Eurotunnel , paving the way for a fresh start for the company and a share swap for battered equity investors. Here ...
When the Channel Tunnel opened in 1994, the undersea rail link saw Britain grew closer to the European mainland than ever before. However, had things gone a little differently, history might have ...
On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the south of Denmark, a vast engineering marvel is taking shape — piece by giant concrete piece — that, when finished, will drastically redraw the road and rail ...