Channel Tunnel Exhibition Centre, Folkestone 1992: a Tunnel Boring Machine
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Channel Tunnel Exhibition Centre, Folkestone 1992: a Tunnel Boring Machine
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 8 Sep 1992
One of the 11 TBM's (25 ft. diameter) after employment for boring the two separate rail tunnels with a service tunnels between them, for 31 miles (24 miles under the sea).
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