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Channel Tunnel Boring Machine VR France

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Channel Tunnel Machine on display on France Calais roundabout 1 minute drive south to tunnel gap

Channel Tunnel Boring Machine VR France

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 Gps Coordinates  /  50.9295057,1.7979164

 

Channel Tunnel Boring Machine VR France

Tunnelier Virginie, D243E4, 62231 Coquelles, France

 

 

 

Travelling through the Tunnel, or le tunnel sous la Manche in French

 

 

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Link Location Gps -10.4641933

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Once voted one of the seven wonders of the modern world by the highly respected American Society of Civil Engineers.

 

 

 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 50.9294201  /  Gps Link 50.9293377  /  Gps Link 50.9292573

Gps Coordinates  /  50.9294201,1.7978434  /  50.9293377,1.7976904  /  50.9292573,1.7976472

 

They have been talking about a Channel Tunnel since the beginning of the 19th Century. Napoleon liked the idea but the Brits didn't fancy the prospect of being invaded from a giant hole.

 

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 Link Location Gps  /  Gps Link 50.9290794  /  Gps Link 50.929233

Gps Coordinates  /  50.9290794,1.7981428  /  50.929233,1.7982456

Brits dug half a mile underneath Kent in the 1880s, and the old tunnel is still there today. Again, a fundamental mistrust of the French stopped it in its tracks.

 

 

 

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Link Location Gps 50.9293762

 

Gps Coordinates  /  50.9293762,1.7981564

 

 

Two of the 11 boring machines used to dig are still down there, buried. They don't fit them with a reverse gear, so it was cheaper to put in a 90-degree turn and bury them in the wall, rather than dismantle them and bring them out.

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The other machines are on show all over the place. This one is a sculpture in the middle of a car roundabout in France.

 

 

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