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ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 03/07/2012 14:58:41 Reply | Quote This is something I've always fancied having a look at, is it still accessible? Photograph: (click image to open full size image in new window) IP: 91.143.75.2 |
PeteJ Joined: 12/05/2008 Location: Billingham View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 03/07/2012 15:01:29 Reply | Quote Some info on the Sub Brit site by Nick Catford IP: 86.22.26.160 |
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ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 03/07/2012 16:43:16 Reply | Quote PeteJ wrote: Some info on the Sub Brit site by Nick Catford That's where I first saw it some years ago and I did make some enquiries then without much luck, The Sub-Brit site says access is controlled by Railtrack. IP: 91.143.75.2 |
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Trewillan Joined: 21/02/2012 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 03/07/2012 19:02:32 Reply | Quote ttxela wrote: PeteJ wrote: Some info on the Sub Brit site by Nick Catford That's where I first saw it some years ago and I did make some enquiries then without much luck, The Sub-Brit site says access is controlled by Railtrack. That sounds like a "no" then. IP: 78.151.69.8 |
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exspelio Joined: 02/05/2012 Location: peak district View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 03/07/2012 20:12:16 Reply | Quote An official Anglo-French protocol was established in 1876 for a cross-Channel railway tunnel. In 1881, British railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin and French Suez Canal contractor Alexandre Lavalley were in the Anglo-French Submarine Railway Company that conducted exploratory work on both sides of the Channel. On the English side a 2.13-metre (7 ft) diameter Beaumont-English boring machine dug a 1,893-metre (6,211 ft) pilot tunnel from Shakespeare Cliff. On the French side, a similar machine dug 1,669 m (5,476 ft) from Sangatte. The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns advocating that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences.[11] These early works were encountered more than a century later during the TML project. O.K., I know checking out on Wikipedia is sad, but I would like to see these boring machines. 
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ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 03/07/2012 21:02:57 Reply | Quote Trewillan wrote: ttxela wrote: PeteJ wrote: Some info on the Sub Brit site by Nick Catford That's where I first saw it some years ago and I did make some enquiries then without much luck, The Sub-Brit site says access is controlled by Railtrack. That sounds like a "no" then. We-ell Sub-brit obviously got access in 1988 and the photo above suggests access in 2008. IP: 92.6.237.159 |
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ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 03/07/2012 21:05:19 Reply | Quote exspelio wrote: An official Anglo-French protocol was established in 1876 for a cross-Channel railway tunnel. In 1881, British railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin and French Suez Canal contractor Alexandre Lavalley were in the Anglo-French Submarine Railway Company that conducted exploratory work on both sides of the Channel. On the English side a 2.13-metre (7 ft) diameter Beaumont-English boring machine dug a 1,893-metre (6,211 ft) pilot tunnel from Shakespeare Cliff. On the French side, a similar machine dug 1,669 m (5,476 ft) from Sangatte. The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns advocating that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences.[11] These early works were encountered more than a century later during the TML project. O.K., I know checking out on Wikipedia is sad, but I would like to see these boring machines. Hmmm, I wonder what is left on the Sangatte side.... IP: 92.6.237.159 |
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Yorkshireman Joined: 23/06/2011 Location: Hanover, Germany View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 04/07/2012 12:20:23 Reply | Quote exspelio wrote: O.K., I know checking out on Wikipedia is sad, but I would like to see these boring machines. Time to brush up on your school French. http://www.gloubik.info/sciences/spip.php?article1376 Not boring at all  Cheers IP: 91.43.97.208 |
Brakeman Joined: 10/10/2007 Location: Cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 04/07/2012 12:36:44 Reply | Quote Plenty of images under Google images, A few posts on 28DL too; http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/14705-1880-Channel-tunnel -- The management thanks you for your co operation. IP: 81.155.62.134 |
Edd Joined: 02/07/2008 Location: Alderley Edge View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 04/07/2012 13:19:22 Reply | Quote This is some where i would love to see -- 'I started reading it with full intention to read it all and then got bored and went and got beer instead!' IP: 109.151.97.239 |
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exspelio Joined: 02/05/2012 Location: peak district View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 04/07/2012 15:31:26 Reply | Quote ttxela wrote: Hmmm, I wonder what is left on the Sangatte side.... Probably full of refugees digging like f--- 
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Cyril Maurice Joined: 13/10/2008 Location: West Yorkshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 04/07/2012 18:05:59 Reply | Quote If I remember correctly the TV series Coast featured this in one of their episodes in either the 2nd or 3rd series, very interesting, and I would have like to have seen one of the machines they used. IP: 2.220.199.136 |
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ttxela Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: Cambs View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 04/07/2012 20:55:23 Reply | Quote edd wrote: This is some where i would love to see Well given that further searching turns up quite a few trip reports from the last few years that claim legitimate access it must surely be possible to arrange a trip, I might PM the user who uploaded this photo and see if they can give us a pointer
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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
1880 's Channel Tunnel Attempt (photo)
Posted: 04/07/2012 22:27:35 Reply | Quote ttxela wrote: PeteJ wrote: Some info on the Sub Brit site by Nick Catford That's where I first saw it some years ago and I did make some enquiries then without much luck, The Sub-Brit site says access is controlled by Railtrack. I wionder if it would be worth making an approach to Railtrack through ANMHS? I'll happily give it a go... -- Half the lies you tell ain't true IP: 217.44.20.124 |
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