The Channel Tunnel - Life on the Inside. Episode 2 - At the Double.
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- With up to 400 trains a day running on its 62 miles of track, the channel tunnel is the busiest railway system in the world. And doing things at the double is key to its success. Two countries built it. There are two terminals. And there is duplication at both ends. This programme shows how teams of two work on both sides of the channel to keep tourists and truckers moving. But how will preparations for Brexit affect such a well-oiled system of twinning and duplication, finely tuned over 25 years? How will the freight teams cope when car drivers end up in the wrong lanes? How do French cakes keep English teams in shape for handling the kind of chaos that ensues when trucks collide with trains? And is it true that no one chocks better than a channel tunnel chocker?
This episode also explores why two tunnels are better than one. And, although water and electricity are not a good combination, the film follows the catenary team every step of the way as they fix the overhead cables in the 'wet area' of the tunnel. There is also a driver’s eye view of the giant crossover doors that link one tunnel to another in the biggest undersea cave ever built. And the team meet Maurice, the charismatic tunnel travelling bulldog.
It amazes me that the tunnel is just the right age where you've got people who have been working there from Day 1, and people who weren't even born when it opened.
"Two-stop Tash" and "Too-tall Steve" 🤣🤣🤣
Obviously the solution to Steve's issues is a nice helmet.
The narrator's puns per minute in this series is excellent 👍
If you create a new pun all your own you’ll be immediately accepted and have a job for life.
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Too much
Tash Speed. What a fantastic name for a train driver!
Wasn't she nicknamed "Two-Stop Tash" in the first episode?
@@PanduPoluan also a toe tapper
This series is great; informational, well produced, and funny!
After Eurotunnel and Concorde, UK and France need a new project together.
Perhaps they can sort out the mess at Calais? That camp!
I agree. We should collaborate on a joint project to halt organised crime involving the exploitation of vulnerable and displaced people lured into the promise of a better life in the UK and continental Europe. It’s a UK and EU problem that the French cannot fix by themselves…..although they could demonstrate a little more proactively at times!
@@bitTorrenter you mean the illegals, or the checks on goods coming from the UK? Because the first ones aren't called illegals by coincidence...and the checks are staying, and even increasing, since you decided to leave the single market.
yep, the new project should be stop the illegal dingy crossings and do what we are paying them to do, then we can sort out fishing , and the hostility by the french towards the british, right now a lot of the uk are just thinking fk the french, we dont need them.
@@jtwin1000 ah right, the illegals...or do you simply mean the foreigners?
Because If it's illegals, your own government estimates no more than 2000 illegals a year try to get there with a dingy, or whatever method....
Or is it the 3,5 million EU members?
Or the refugees, claiming asylum?
What's the fuss about, other than some inbuilt national racism?
The employees of the Eurotunnel company have tough jobs, but they all seem to enjoy it with some healthy dose of humour 😄
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
Were you expecting a view of the White Cliffs of Dover from this land-based hotel, madam?
@@h8GW That's racist! 😛
My guy at 4:00 has a Fallout 76 key chain xd
Holy crap he does.
I wonder if he regrets it?
4 times the price
Is this a game? Sorry for being late to the party😅😅
lol Charlie with the 'bants' - go on Charlie!
What a complex engineering marvel is this tunnel.
Nice video you done there.Thanks for sharing.
Great and thanks very much for replying to my comment. Have a Great Christmas and Happy New year. Take Care & Stay Safe.
The French guy at the end had a pretty good British accent.
Fascinating - thanks for uploading!
"And until the fromage..." "Bon voyage" God the puns are shocking 😂
Tash Speed? Really?? OMG she got the name for the job!
Her nickname is two stop Tasha, see part one. :-)
Excellent video thanks. I was on the very first (press) trip of the Shuttle when it opened. Memorable day
Has it changed much since then?
Excellent video just subscribed 👍
Thankyou for sharing! Very interesting despite the onslaught of terrible Puns! 😂
I love buzz he’s so funny
4:46 my mans got a fallout 76 lanyard
Stopping the train for a broken tarp is stupid. It can not rip off the catenary because it is contained within the railway wagon and catenaries are copper contact cable supported by a steel cable. It is not like they break if you breathe at them.
gotta love how everyone on the internet is an engineer nowadays
That crossover? That must put those people in control on 'No Nonsense' agenda.
not me thinking when the narrator said wrappers - I was looking out for rappers in the shed..
@15:00 mins to make an even better documentary, they should add some simple graphics to describe what's going on here. Someone who has no technical knowledge like me, I think I will appreciate better the work that these guys do if there are graphics or animation that accompany the narration
Why are those two women taking stacks of French beer to France?
In the first episode their car is empty, they bought the beer in France and it's their journey home.
9:28 An HR nightmare!
12:23 I didn't think adders could survive in Europe's cold climate.
4:28 I guess Charlie didn’t come home 😔
Why recirculate 32 lorries (and some unknown quantity of cars, 100?) instead of swapping the locomotive thats damaged?
i am not an expert so this is 100% a guess! locomotives are limited to rail so logistically, despite the work, it seems far easier to just move the lorries etc. i can't imagine switching locomotives would be quick!
Once Google Maps directed my dad into the trucker check in lol
OMG that plastic poncho 🤣🤣🤣
Apparently are newest recruits everywhere! 😂😂😂😂😂
Why is Clarkson everywhere?
Jaaag
dave seems fun
What is it with HGV drivers???
4:40 so true
24:00 Michael Palin works for Eurotunnel?
That's what I was thinking!
And how can this be? For Dave is the Michael Palin!
Is Lily a flower then lol
Too much for the commentary to use kilometres (other than for speeds). Why not say 50 km and 10 km?
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Well...this is awkward
brexit and the chunnel are opposites.
With this logic, Brexit and ports are opposites, and Brexit and aeroports are opposites too.
What do you want, the British version of the Edo Period ?
No more cakes or cheese from Didier now Brexit's happened!
Tash Speed train driver 🤣🤣
When the employees make several trips a day between UK and France, do they have to get their passports stamped? One would fill it up qwikly!
when we were in the EU you don't get stamps between EU countries. and I think the same applies after brexit now.
@@TheWeepingDalek They probably have some sort of visa
Does anyone think they like Kronenbourg?? aha
Well done Rhys, evidently the “freight leader” doesn’t understand locomotive braking system and would do well to keep her opinion to herself regarding the temporary repairs the engineers carried out
She literally just says “There you go”. What’s the problem?
Wow, I'm actually quite #smitten for that really pretty driver girl "Tash Speed." 😍
(Apparently, so much so that I just _had_ to say something about it here, in the comments lol tell the world. 😇)
She looks like 100 other women I've seen. Maybe if you got out more...?
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Real train drivers but sadly aren’t qualified to drive on standard uk railways
Wow, that's not fair.
@@lewisbale1 it’s because they don’t run under any conventional UK signalling, so they don’t get trained on the UK rule book which means they aren’t passed drivers for driving trains in the UK. They’d have to apply as an external applicant and do all the tests and the full training course, this is why their pay isn’t anywhere near as much as a normal UK driver as well
Only spoilt by a lot of the music.
It's a typical woman is that lol
People thinking passing wind is funny grow up adults. It's not funny
I found it funny ; (
Bet you’re fun at parties
@@HSTHoward Bet you're not
@@josephSE18 was replying to Vincit
@@HSTHoward LOL sorry yeah I bet vincit isnt fun at paries
productionists were really really really really really bored 'making' this shite.. . . .