Does Anyone Know When The New Ubdersea Tunnel Will Be Completed?
 

I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities
and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to
expect on the London underground.

Does Anyone Know When The New Ubdersea Tunnel Will Be Completed?
 

"Avenger" wrote in message
news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03...
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet
facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards
we've come to expect on the London underground.
lol! i think you have been watching tooooooo mucho Doctor Who.

Does Anyone Know When The New Ubdersea Tunnel Will Be Completed?
 

In article ,
(MCP) wrote:

"Avenger" wrote in message
news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03...
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think
it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the
toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same
high standards we've come to expect on the London underground.
lol! i think you have been watching tooooooo mucho Doctor Who.

Google Maps maybe?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article ,
(MCP) wrote:

"Avenger" wrote in message
news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03...

I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet
facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards
we've come to expect on the London underground.

lol! i think you have been watching tooooooo mucho Doctor Who.

Google Maps maybe?

That's Le Havre to Boston. And it's not marked as a a tunnel.

tom

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logic. -- Pete, mfw

Does Anyone Know When The New Ubdersea Tunnel Will Be Completed?
 

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:14:13 GMT, Avenger
wrote in 9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03:
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities
and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to
expect on the London underground.

You can buy the design study he

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transatlanti.../dp/0575071346

--
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Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

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"Avenger" wrote in message
news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03...
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet
facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards
we've come to expect on the London underground.

The Discovery Channel had a programme about the Transatlantic Tunnel. In
the last week, we've seen another previous fictional rail tunnel unearth
itself (Berring Strait tunnel). Perhaps, the Transatlantic Tunnel is
next...

Does Anyone Know When The New Ubdersea Tunnel Will Be Completed?
 

Toby wrote:
"Avenger" wrote in message
news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03...
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet
facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards
we've come to expect on the London underground.

The Discovery Channel had a programme about the Transatlantic Tunnel. In
the last week, we've seen another previous fictional rail tunnel unearth
itself (Bering Strait tunnel). Perhaps, the Transatlantic Tunnel is
next...
You cannot build tunnels across continental plates.

A Bering Strait bridge is the answer; one
platter can rest upon rollers with each end on
different continents. It would still require
good maintenance and the platter would have to
be replaced regularly but it is not impossible.

D.

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On 25 Apr, 08:14, "Avenger" wrote:
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities
and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to
expect on the London underground.

There was a marvellous 1972 SF novel called "A Transatlantic Tunnel
Hurrah!" by Harry Harrison, (an Anglophile American) in which he
depicts a kind of parallel-universe situation where the British Empire
still exists and contains the American colonies. Captain Augustine
Washington and Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel (descendant of Isambard
Kingdom Brunel) get together to link the heart of the British Empire
with its far-flung Atlantic colony in North America. The tunnel is
like a 3,000 mile long series of upside-down Clifton Suspension
Bridges where the cables have te resist the bouyancy of the submerged
tube... Probably out of print long ago.

It was called "Tunnel through The Deeps" in the USA.

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:19:15PM +0000, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:14:13 GMT, Avenger
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities
and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to
expect on the London underground.
You can buy the design study he
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transatlanti.../dp/0575071346

That has been my on-the-****ter reading material for the past couple of
weeks. It's jolly good fun.

--
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I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files.
I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have
a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby.
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dustbin wrote:

Toby wrote:
"Avenger" wrote in message
news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03...

I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet
facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards
we've come to expect on the London underground.

The Discovery Channel had a programme about the Transatlantic Tunnel.
In the last week, we've seen another previous fictional rail tunnel
unearth itself (Bering Strait tunnel). Perhaps, the Transatlantic
Tunnel is next...

You cannot build tunnels across continental plates.

A Bering Strait bridge is the answer; one platter can rest upon rollers
with each end on different continents. It would still require good
maintenance and the platter would have to be replaced regularly but it
is not impossible.

How do you interface the track running across it at the ends, though?

tom

--
never mind your fingers, i've got blisters on my brain

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Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dustbin wrote:

You cannot build tunnels across continental plates.

A Bering Strait bridge is the answer; one platter can rest upon
rollers with each end on different continents. It would still
require good maintenance and the platter would have to be replaced
regularly but it is not impossible.

How do you interface the track running across it at the ends, though?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...b_ExpJoint.jpg

Or... the track leaves the platter sideways. When the platter moves, the
track moves sideways (similar to points) but doesn't have to change length.

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dustbin wrote:

You cannot build tunnels across continental plates.

A Bering Strait bridge is the answer; one platter can rest upon
rollers with each end on different continents. It would still
require good maintenance and the platter would have to be replaced
regularly but it is not impossible.

How do you interface the track running across it at the ends, though?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Im...b_ExpJoint.jpg

Or... the track leaves the platter sideways. When the platter moves, the
track moves sideways (similar to points) but doesn't have to change
length.

The track on the platter would have to be a segment of a circle, with the
exit track being a radius, of course.

Alternatively, how about something like a set of points, with the exit
track branching off the platter track, where the platter rails can slide
through the whole assembly. You couldn't have the notch in the main track
rail you usually have at points; perhaps you could grade the branch rails
a bit, and have them fly over the main rails. Does that make any sense? I
should draw a diagram ...

tom

--
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Mike Harvey:
There was a marvellous 1972 SF novel called "A Transatlantic Tunnel
Hurrah!" by Harry Harrison, (an Anglophile American) in which he
depicts a kind of parallel-universe situation

("Alternate history" is the usual term.)

where the British Empire
still exists and contains the American colonies. ...

It was called "Tunnel through The Deeps" in the USA.

I liked that the trains were nuclear-powered.

An earlier novel of a transatlantic tunnel was "Der Tunnel" by Bernhard
Kellermann, filmed under the same title in 1933, then remade in English
in 1935 as "The Tunnel" (British title) or "Transatlantic Tunnel" (US
title). I've seen this. I was amused to see that they have the tunnel
breaking into a volcanic zone halfway across the Atlantic, which was
unknown at the time!

I was also amused in that the excavation of the tunnel apparently produces
*no* spoil...
--
Mark Brader "How diabolically clever: a straightforward message!
Toronto Only a genius could have thought of that."
-- Maxwell Smart (Agent 86)

My text in this article is in the public domain.

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:09:28AM +0000, Dustbin wrote:

You cannot build tunnels across continental plates.

I take it you are aware that Britain and France are moving relative to
each other?

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