Channel Tunnel

About Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel, sometimes referred to as the Chunnel, is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35-mile) railway tunnel beneath the English Channel which connects Folkestone in the United Kingdom with Coquelles in northern France. Opened in 1994, it remains the only fixed link between Great Britain and the European mainland.
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One of the TBMs used for the Channel Tunnel was sold on eBay. There were obviously loads of prank bids, but it was actually sold for 39,999 pounds.
from No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine, 2025-04-24 at 00:39:50 ยท read transcript
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Some skates which rest on compressed nitrogen like a hovercraft and that allowed them to turn it round in a special underground chamber and then go back the other way they must have had to build a massive underground chamber because these things are up to 170 metres long I don't know what that chamber was like but it's crazy yeah they are awesome and I think they do like to reuse them now or they break up into little parts because everyone is like the width of the tunnel it's specifically made for that one tunnel so you can't really reuse the whole thing, but you can take it apart and use it. Yeah, in the olden days, they did random shit with it. As you say, in the Channel Tunnel, one of them was just like buried. Another one in 2004 was...
No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine, 2025-04-24 ยท listen
Reverse! Just get some wing wearers on there. Or don't they famously come out the other side? Didn't they? Sorry to interrupt, but for the channel tunnel, I think the boring machines, they just kept boring down. They sometimes do. Buried them under the ground. Sometimes they do, yeah. This one, they wanted to use it again. They wanted to get good use out of this machine because it's a massive factory, like it's huge underground thing.
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No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine put 2 places on the map.
- Blackwall Tunnel ยท United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51.0125, 1.5041