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American Reacts The Channel Tunnel: Planned Since 1802
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
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I worked in the Channel Tunnel from 1989-1993. I was only 21 when I joined and it's something I'll never forget. The TBM's were huge and reminded me of Giant mechanical worms because the head would drill for about 7 feet, The piece of new tunnel inserted (simplified), then the TBM would anchor it's head and pull the rest of the machine forwards. I had never seen Hydraulic Rams that were bigger than me, and there were 9 of them pulling the machine forwards. My most dangerous but memorable job for sure! :-)
The Boring machines were made in my home town of Chesterfield Derbyshire England 🇬🇧. By an Engineering firm called Markham Works ,top class Engineers .sadly shut now .
Thatcher?
Concorde was a supersonic marvel and also an Anglo-French project
I remember Ken Dodd talking about two groups tunneling under the Channel, a small hole opened between them and for the first time in history an Englishman reach through........ and throttled a Frenchman.
Of course the Conservative Government didn't forsee a migrant problem. So Shortsighted. As usual.
Did anyone think that the narrator sounded like Alan Whicker (for those of us old enough to remeber him)as parodied by Monty Python lol?
I live in Britain and have never travelled through the Tunnel so you are one up there mate.
And I never will. The whole idea is terrifying.
As far as I can remember Connor, the Brits and the French were tunnelling through chalk, under the sea. It was not so much drilled through rock, which made it easier. I know the trains run through tunnels embedded in the chalk.
The TBM is impressive to work on, i did for about a year on the one that built the Brighton stormwater project.
You could look at Tom Scotts video on the London flood defences. Pretty interesting mega project.
Most of the tech invented for the Channel-tunnel are going to be used in the Tallinn-Helsinki tunnel planned to start this decade. This is made to connect a high-speed railway that is planned to go between Germany-Poland-Lithuania-Latvia-Estonia-Finland
My uncle worked on the channel tunnel, and he went through a live cable whilst drilling, he had 1000s of volts going through his body, he got 80 k competition, what saved his life was he was 24 stone, his fat body acted as an insulator which amazingly spared him, anyone else would have been dead
Are you being for real? like seriously? If that's true, god damn that's pretty insane
@@michael_177 100 percent true story, his name is John Cashman
Ohm my God!
Was he alright afterwards?
@@michael_177 yeah his fine now, was a long time ago, over 30 years ago, probably didn't help his heart much, but his still going strong
4:09 Not THAT dumb. Norway is working on exactly such a tunnel. It is a concrete "tube" that floats in the middle of the sea approx 100 feet below the surface. (look for "norways floating highway" if interested.
I was lucky enough to have a couple of students (I was a flying instructor) who had worked for British Rail as train drivers, they both took the opportunity to go to EuroStar way before the service had actually started, the company ran some trains for a month before opening day to provide service training for the cabin attendants and all staff were encouraged to bring friends and family on these trains to be the prospective passengers. That’s how I found myself on a EuroStar service from in those days Waterloo to Paris some three weeks before the first official passengers, as my friend was a driver I was also invited to ride in the cab for the trip back, watching the French countryside scream by at close to 300 kph was an experience I will never forget.
When he says that it's the longest underwater tunnel in the world, he means it has the longest portion that's actually underwater - the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is longer overall
I really like these videos and admire the interest of the young man.
here is an interesting engineering tidbit: it isn't trivial for these TBMs to "meet" "somewhere" under the english channel... it actually required an invention by a german(!) to make something akin to "underground GPS" - either way the service tunnel was the first, so that better calculations could be made based on where those met (or rather how far apart from dead center)
I know you've reacted to the B1M channel before. They recently did one one the new Elizabeth line which is another huge project that is about to open. There are lots of other you tube videos on it as well. The new central London stations are huge and spectacular.
The Burj Khalif wasn't built in the 20th century, plus it's not connected to a sewerage system. All poop is collected by a fleet of trucks. My house is almost 200 years old and connected to a sewerage system since Victorian times.
My house is better engineered than that monstrosity.
It is ghastly, isn't it. Engineering is intended to create something useful, not be party to a dick measuring contest.
That's shite
I think that was debunked, the fleet of truck was only for a short while because of some problems with the sewage system.
But correct me if I'm wrong.
35 metres is estimated as the minimum depth that was safe to tunnel below the channel.
They doubled the depth to guarantee safety.
Never used it, never will
Also it closed down when a earh tremor hit close by, English and French engineers inspected, the whole tunnel to make sure no cracks had appeared,bet that was something they didn't think of.
I have used Eurostar from Waterloo once and St Pancras once to travel to Paris and Brussels and from Lille to St Pancras and I have used Le Shuttle on a lot of occasions by coach, car, minibus and motorhome. I was watching breakfast news live from The Channel Tunnel in 1990 i was in my last year of secondary school, i visited Paris for the first time that year.
Connor, On the French side the tunnels are encased to withstand the full water pressure. On the English side, the tunnel is inside Chalk Marl which is fairly impermeable, so the sides of the tunnel walls just sweat, and the water is simply pumped away, just like the 4 mile long Severn Tunnel. Interestingly, before it opened, you could run a marathon on foot. Some office chap added "it is all downhill for 16 miles" I replied "Yes, and it is all uphill for the next 16 miles." This video has one mistake. The car-carrying Le Shuttle trains from Folkestone to Calais take 35 minutes, but the Eurostar trains from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam only take 20 minutes in the tunnel. Eurostar does 186 mph (300 kmh) but is restricted to 100 mph (160 kmh) in the tunnel. I have done it over 70 times. You can see, if you look carefully, there is a gradient descending, then a flat bit, then a steep accent. There are three crossovers to allow trains to switch tracks at the English Crossover, the Halfway Crossover and the French Crossover. I have even used these during Single Line Working after the Chunnel Fire. In the winter, Eurostar have run trains from London to Bourg St Maurice for the ski season, and in the summer from London to Marseille. Eurostar trains started running @ 1994 from London Waterloo, but now run from London St Pancras, which is arguably the grandest station in London, if not the world. Originally Eurostar used the Class 373 which was based on the French TGV, but now Class 374 are used based on the German ICE3. London to Paris is 2 hrs 15, Brussels in 1 hr 50, and Amsterdam in around 4 hours.
*ascent
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz Wow. So bored you spend your time spotting typos.
@@vicsams4431 But it IS 'ascent' - an accent is a regional way of pronunciation!
@@Inkyminkyzizwoz Never said it wasn't. Just said you ought to have better things to do, than find fault with others. It was a genuine error. No need to get snotty.
The American Society of Civil Engineers Modern Wonders were:
Channel Tunnel (England & France)
CN Tower (Toronto)
Empire State Building (New York)
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco)
Itaipu Dam (Brazil/Paraguay)
Netherlands North Sea Protection Works (Netherlands)
Panama Canal (Panama)
An interesting story, of which I didn't know everything. Thank you from 🇬🇧 .
i have been on the freight tunnel, cars go through another tunnel. i beleiev you stay in the cars on the car tunnel, but i have not used that. but on the frrieght, you wheels are chocked, and you have to leave you vehical, enter a mini bus that stops at every vehical, 2 mini buses, front mini bus does the first and and the second does the rear, bus 1 and bus 2, it take you to the engine, front and back where there is a seating area, toilet coffee machines. when you rech destination, you get on bus, 1 or 2, which ever you were on at start, it drops you off at every vehical. smooth process, customs and passport is where there can be long delays,
the cutting machine was built in my town and a few parts of the french machine
It's called "The Union Flag". It's only called "The Union Jack" if it is on a ship...
Hi Conor, if you found this interesting you should watch a video about the tunnels under the rivers of New York which they had to built in order to build Penn station in the very early 20th century. In that they go into detail about how you handle unstable underwater tunnels - or how they handled them then. Look for a video on the building of Penn station.
It wouldn't really have taken just a few sticks of dynamite to stop an invasion. If you were to land by sea with an initial force and take control of the area at end of the tunnel then you have a straight unobstructed road for the main invasion force.
There is an Australian television series called "Utopia" a little bit like Yes Minister and a little bit of The Office. A fictitious "Nation building Authority" in one episode s trying to build a new tunnel in Melbourne and is being hindered by the PR department wanting an opening ceremony with trucks unable to enter the worksite because the PR has installed a grandstand for the event, 25 ceremonial shovels cluttering up the office, and money wasted coming up with a name for a boring drill imported from Spain calling it "The armordrillo". Until someone pointed out armadillos are in South America not Spain
It is an amazing but of civil engineering. Living 1km from the tunnel mouth in Folkestone, I've used it a fair bit right from the start. But if driving, I still prefer the ferry - the ferry may take longer but you can have breakfast/dinner on board and you get to see the white cliffs.
A couple of things -
1. I've not heard anyone who works on or use the tunnel call it the Chunnel, that was the name of one of the competing propositions, and although this project was informally known as that initially, the nickname has fallen out of use by regulars (who call it simply the Tunnel, or Eurostar or Shuttle).
2. That fire. Pretty much everything that could go wrong, did. Yet no-one was seriously injured. That says something about the inherent safety of the system.
in Germany we always called it the Chunnel...
@@theorganguy yeah, a lot of Americans do as well, I think they think it's what locals call it, but we don't.
Look for Brunels foot tunnel under the Thames.
How about doing a reaction to David Frankal's videos on HS2 and the Integrated Rail Plan?
Crossrail/Elizabeth Line in London opens tomorrow, it cost about 5 times the channel tunnel
and massively over budget. I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary years ago that stated the tunnel was on budget (or maybe even under)
@@Zippy66 and about 5 years late
Well it looks like I may have been wrong about that. Supposedly it was well over budget
@@Zippy66 yes estimated cost was 15bn, ended up being 19bn
A young Bardot beats tunnels
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It's hilarious and also a little sad, that there were people so desperate to get to France that they built a tunnel.😂
ridiculous waffle
@@stirlingmoss4621 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
What nonsense.
You should watch “Abandoned Engineering”. Some great history lessons watching those 👍🏻
When we realise what other people have done it makes us seem so small
Conor, react to the Concorde Megaprojects video!!!!
Good eve', sir..........yeh, ....5.00pm, u.k............
The bald bloke doesn't remember it opening? How young is he, looking like that??
Factboy is 34 Ish I think
@@mattsmith5421 Wow, I feel very old... but look considerably younger
@@HighHoeKermit he does look far far younger if he doesn't have a beard, his wife likes him to have a beard tho if I remember correctly.
@@mattsmith5421 I've been ID'd for alcohol twice in the last few years, god knows how I'd go on without my beard...
Another huge mistake we made with the French. My opinion!!!!!
Tunnels are the most exciting thing....
Not when it leads to France 😂😂😂😂😉
However: it also leads OUT of France... I only say...
The Channel Tunnel is 75 meters, 264 feet below sea level.
Been on it 30 or 40 times. On foot and car.
😂 I bet he’s a good singer gospel songs properly
I would never go through the channel tunnel. To much water above for my liking. It just takes one crack and you have gallons of water rushing in.
It is inside rock. Only the French side is water-proof. On the English side, the water is merely pumped away, like the Severn Tunnel.
I'm not sure all seabed is sand.
people love big things don’t be rude
The Queen cuts through the ribbon and that was a days work for her as we are always told she worked so hard. She probably made more money cutting that ribbon than all of the man working on the whole project
Tunneling was achieved in the bedrock under the floor of the channel.
A lot of the seabed in the English channel is chalk, not sand.
Please react to Genghis Khan demon dog of war
Smart people have doubts. Stupid people are certain!
The Queen is 96 so she's been an old woman for like 50 years.
46 isn’t old
Can you imagine what would have happened if the 2 teams working from opposite sides hadn't met? ------------😱_______
Apparently, the bloke who invented the compasses that were used on the Boaring machines for the channel tunnel later had his compasses used on a different project. The two boaring machines in that project didn't meet and the guy shot himself out of shame.
@@joshuabruce9599 good God 🤯
Not the best emoji... 😨
@@joshuabruce9599 *boring
Two tunnels?
Annoyingly he said "slither" and not SLIVER...
The French were allies of Britain in the start of ww2 but when the French surrendered to the Nazis the Vichy Government became Britain's enemy ,even bombing Gibraltar
The bombing of Gibraltar was caused by the illegal attacks of Mers-El-Kébir and Dakar by the RN
@@leosimon241 The French fleet was asked to sail to neutral ports ,seemed more interested in helping Germans then staying in the alliance with the UK ,
@@johnhehir508
The french never intended to give their ships to the German. Even in 1942 when the last remaining officials of the Vichy Government were all pro-german, the french Fleet was scuttled in Toulon to avoid capture by german and Italian. And why stay in an alliance with a country that betrayed France multiple over the past centuries and had abandonned the french and the Belgian about 2 weeks earlier in Dunkerque ?
@@leosimon241 300,000 evacuate at Dunkirk one third were French ,Also no good saying we promised not to let our fleet in to the hands of Germans we scuttle them , it means you failed to honour your agreement not to sign any treaties with the Germans without agreement with the British first ,Would have been better to sail ships to allied or neutral ports ,and carried on the fight ,The French navy failed to honour their outstanding brave countrymen in Caen ,And even put a death sentence on General degaul
I see some crazies are on this comment section again!!. Same thing, over and over again, no new material, yawn....
Welcome back 😁
Dont knock yourself you must be pretty brainy to get a degree.