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Crossrail tunnelling to start shortly
On 15/03/2012 20:53, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 15/03/2012 20:48, Bruce wrote: wrote: On Mar 15, 10:53 am, Mizter wrote: Tunnel boring So, it's finally really happening. Most days I travel one way or the other through Paddington on the Hamcity& Mersmith line and I've been watching the machinery being assembled bit by bit. Its impressive kit. I don't recall the channel tunnel machinery being as impressive but maybe grey cells are decaying. The Channel Tunnel machinery was crude and simplistic on the British side, but extremely sophisticated and impressive on the French side. The British tunnelling engineers laughed at the French machines, Which engineers, and how do you know that they did? It doesn't seen the sort of thing that engineers (real engineers, rather than repairmen or shopkeepers) who I've come across would do, as most seem to find different approaches to specific problems to be quite interesting. You forget that Polson was Morton's right hand man on the project and therefore knows everything about it. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail |
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