Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822546924
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.

Author: Nicholas Faith
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 9781526712998
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Channel Tunnel, has been one of histories most protracted and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when there was a fear that foreign hordes would rush through the tunnel and invade Britain, to the lethargic attempts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its a miracle, that this great feat of Engineering, was ever constructed at all. Nicholas Faith, has delved into the archives and researched the fascinating truth about this project, that took so long to authorise and construct. The author has found material in the archives, both in Britain and abroad, that has not been previously published or seen, outside a closed group of people.

Author: G Anderson
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203362292
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14,000 people at peak, and costing over 15611 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial, political and techncial difficulties, and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project, based on the coverage in Construction News and with commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources.

Author: Colin Kirkland
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780419179207
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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The Channel Tunnel may be the greatest engineering project in Europe this century. This book describes the tremendous engineering achievement of the construction of the tunnel. Written by twenty of the key engineers involved, it provides a fascinating, informative and inspiring account of the project for both engineering professionals and general readers.

Author: Terry Gourvish
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134165447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688

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Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94. This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and private sectors), revealing new insights into the role of the British and French Governments in the process. This important book, written by Britain’s leading transport historian, will be essential reading for all those interested in PPPs, British and European economic history and international relations. The building of the Channel Tunnel has been one of Europe’s major projects and a testimony to British-French and public-private sector collaboration. However, Eurotunnel’s current financial crisis provides a sobering backcloth for an examination of the British Government’s long-term flirtation with the project, and, in particular, the earlier Tunnel project in the 1960s and early 1970s, which was abandoned by the British Government in 1975.

Author: Drew Fetherston
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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In a "business narrative of high risk and high finance, of culture clashes and reckless blunders," the author explains the tunnel from an engineering standpoint and also from the viewpoint of the financiers who had planned to make money on the project.

Author: Renaud Morieux
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419

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This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

Author: Colin S. Harris
Publisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727720450
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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The Channel Tunnel has been called the greatest engineering project of the century, overcoming a unique set of financial, political and engineering challenges. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the events which culminated in the first dry link between Britain and France. It describes the relationship between the site investigation, data interpretation and construction of the works. It examines areas such as the difficulties inherent in predicting geology from a relatively small number of boreholes and revealing how the use of modern geophysical techniques.

Author: Stuart Kallen
Publisher: Norwood House Press
ISBN: 1599535963
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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The railway tunnel, or Chunnel that whisks millions of passengers and vehicles between England and France is an engineering miracle. Built deep under the English Channel with massive tunnel boring machines the Chunnel is the longest undersea tunnel in the world—and one of history’s most fascinating construction projects. Correlates with STEM instruction. Includes glossary, websites, and bibliography for further reading.

Author: Eve Darian-Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520216113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This study uses the Channel Tunnel between England and France to explore the shifting geographies of nationalism, postcolonialism, and legal autonomy in the formation of the European Union. It looks at regional differences in feelings about Europe and at vocabulary used in discussing the Tunnel.