Euro Tunnel is definitely one of the wonders of the modern world. Kudos to the men and women who worked on the project. Special salute to the 12 lives that were claimed here. I hope to one day travel in this engineering creation.
I machined a set of cutter heads for this and the Big Dig in Canada since Robbins isn't far from where I used to work. It's nice to see what I worked on for months in use!
I was a survey assistant on the original undersea survey to find the Gault layers using boreholes, I was 15 and I am now 74 so it was a long time ago. Our boring details gave the direction up and down like a roller coaster. The boring machines followed the levels we gave them.
Brilliant Documentary i remember when I lived in England in 1985 this was a big deal to return 10 years later from Australia to see it had been built saw simply amazing.
That was teenage friend of mine he went down the pits and then to the tunnel Graham Flagg, he was still working on the rolling stock for the tunnel until he retired.
We'll " it didn't . Because it opened for business in 1994 ; I think what you're referring to , is , it showed you a computer-generated image (CGI) , just to show people , what it would have looked like , if they had indeed missed 🤔
They used Brunells tunnel boring machine, and geometric theodolite to get them to meet. The tunnel boring machine is what was used to dig train tunnels over 150 years ago. Brunell was amazing.
Really fulljoyed watching such great historic moments to the end.... God is good everlasting for giving mankind the knowledge to achieved such an acomplisment.
Now many people just board the trains without knowing the sacrifice of the people who built them. Kudos to them who built them and rip to those who lost their lives because of it.
I have been through the tunnel many times, on a coach which drives on to a double decker train. Going through the tunnel is the strangest experience. It's like your taking of in a plane, and at the same time, the motion of the train, makes you feel like your on a boat. It's a most weird thing ever.
@@wayn3h oops !! Just curious, are you so bored you cruise YT comments looking for typos 🙄 Because if that’s the case you just hit a gold mine. I often type mine without my reading glasses on. 🤓
Amen & Amen: When I first heard of this technological feat some time ago in a news flash, I saw it as a miracle but today I know this scientific masterpiece is truly the handwork of God🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️
37:12 For whatever reason, hearing Richard Storer assure us of the safety of the tunnel was akin to a composite of Frank Spencer and Mr Brittas giving a thumbs up for the Titanic.
Why was there a need for the incessant "music" sounds in the background EVEN while the narrator is speaking. Did Progress-Technology believe they needed to entertain us?
Idk but it makes it unwatchable fror me. Id really have to be interested in England to get through the " nails on a chalkboard" they enjoy playing so much
I'm a musician and I agree. There is such a thing as too much of it, especially during narration. At the very least, it should be turned way down in the mix.
It might be because I have high frequency hearing loss, but I hear his voice above the background music just fine, unlike other documentaries I just couldn’t put up with.
It's nice how they minimize the mention of the location of the designers who built the machines that built a tunnel under the channel. Glad the company in the United States can do their part to help. It would be something to ride through
@@We_All_Seek_Truth thank you. I remember this actually I know it's been 6 months ago. But they just kind of glossed over how the company from the United States help them with a major contribution. Or else the tunnel would not have been built.
Who cares about the Americans, they forgot the French lmao. Only english-speaking documentaries can manage to completely miss half of the topic it's hilarious.
@@GordonFreeman-sl6pi yeah we build the French and the rest of your about into world wars. We took over in the war in Vietnam because of the French. As far as French, it is just capitalism. It doesn't pay enough to speak it in French. Besides a lot of stuff coming out of Canada now. As far as getting things WRONG, every person needs to look at that. Because everywhere we've been fed garbage that isn't true. So I would say that checking the truthfulness is a good a thing to do.
Does anyone have any questions? I spent 4yrs on this job as a planner (which meant I had an all-areas pass). Any CGI in this video came well after the event for a start :-) I worked on the M&E of the UK tunnels (crossover doors, pump station G, PRD's, ER's ) and the UK terminal (ES1, ST doors, etc), around 100No. of the sub projects, as a project planner. Any questions? Almost all filming was banned at the time (too political). In 4yrs, I think I saw just 1No. film crew on site, at Shakespear Cliff, for half a day.
Hi there. My question is: how long did the average worker work underground during a shift? And how many shift’s were there? Was this a 24/7 operation? And were did the workers go for a break once far down in the tunnel? Thanks
@@x-marks-x5137 Worst case might be 8hrs on site, plus 4hrs to get there on a construction train, and another 4hrs to return. So 16hrs underground. 24/7 working, 3-shifts. Nowhere to go for a break other than perhaps a quieter and drier area.
And if you go back to 1815 (the battle of Waterloo) and say we have an underwater tunnel from France 🇫🇷 to England 🏴 like getting on a normal train in 1994 ,179 years later they would laugh at you 🤔 they would say well what the f**k are we fighting for then 😂
@Soggy Doubt what ?.. Howdens engineering factory was in the South Side of Glasgow, one of my customers was a senior engineer there.. you doubt that too ..tit
@@soggy8572 I am afraid it was me. My initials are on all the Howden's electrical / instrument drawings which shall be archived somewhere with my engineer's initials (WH). I still have the original layout drawing (an A1 by approx. 10M long) which was on display when Margaret Thatcher came. Three years later all work was done on CAD. Sorry to disappoint you Soggy Pants
@@URFUTUREUK Musk should stick with engineering and leave politics to politians. His MAGA stuff on Twitter is a disaster. Twitter itself is a desaster since he took over. Financially and reputation wise disastrous
well it's like everything in the UK we are being left behind in everything, they could have carried on and called it hs2. could have gone all the way to Scotland with stations along the way and feeder trains or underground lines to connect to the stations well done the UK.
I don't think so. The air forced past the train heats up during each crossing. It has nowhere to go so overtime it builds, the water takes the heat away.
And now 29 years later it is as simple as jumping on a train who'd have thought , hey what next , a bridge over the Atlantic from Ireland 🇨🇮 to Canada 🇨🇦 after watching this " never say never who knows what will be done in the next 179 years because the people of the battle of Waterloo in 1815 would have laughed at this project never mind a bridge across the Atlantic 🤔
13:38... Maybe that explains why so little French workers died. 13:54... And this explains why most of the dead ones are British.... And Brexit too. Just a guess.
I'm here, having listened to a BBC World News live sounds podcast about the making, the accomplishments of Eurotunnel under the witness history section yesterday. I'm amazed too and at the same time disappointed with the least consideration that this documentary maker did on the French experience interviews: why didn't you guys interview the French counterpart, as well? Your British politeness was also supposed to have made video clips of the French men and women who worked for the making of this united civil, mechanical, and manufacturing marvel of the 90s. It is rather sad and unpolite.
The tunnel is not laying on the ocean floor its under a ton of rock & dirt there is no water on it they dug threw the earth otherwise they woul float tunnel sections & connect them then cover it with dirt
"...the most POWERFUL locomotive, in the world." UP 4014, "hold my case of beers!" And, I do it on STEAM power! Let's see you pull that up the Wasatch front. steve
It initially there was to be one tunnel,but they hired the firm of Maloney and Son. The son started in digging in France and the dad started digging in England. Well they missed each other,thus the reason for two tunnels.
Simply not true. The first tunnel was the service tunnel followed by the North and South tunnels. The video describes this in detail. There were always going to be the three tunnels.
This has been probably the best cross-Channel achievement in history (though the Concorde wasn't bad). Keep a sharp eye on those nay-sayers, jingoists and nasty nationalistic politicians on any side who would never have wanted such projects to get going in the first place.
Digging at both ends to meet in the middle was stupid. They had to just throw away one of the TBMs. They were digging THREE tunnels! What a waste. Children are starving in India! Seriously, I don't get it, unless... they wanted to HAVE that big meeting in the middle to get the people amped up with all the partying. It makes a lot of political sense. I just keep thinking about all the deaths in the future.
Yes, human beings can be constructive and destructive at the same time. Both natures inhabit our character traits. Eventually, we create and destroy our and nature's creations.
Euro Tunnel is definitely one of the wonders of the modern world. Kudos to the men and women who worked on the project. Special salute to the 12 lives that were claimed here. I hope to one day travel in this engineering creation.
I feel that if they built the Holland and Lincoln tunnels why such amazement
The Eurotbunnel should never have been built
@@jeanbrown8295 what else "should never have been built?"
@@sheikhabrahim4057 the Yugo
@@arlen1630 ...are you referring to the hatchback car?
I remember travelling in it soon after it was done. I was a kid and didn't know how crazy it really was, but it was still definitely special.
Wow what a beautiful and superb man made tunnel. Congrats to the two countries who combined their knowledge and effort. Mabuhay!!!!
Amazing achievement. Great EURO TUNNEL.
I machined a set of cutter heads for this and the Big Dig in Canada since Robbins isn't far from where I used to work. It's nice to see what I worked on for months in use!
A simply unbelievable achievement. Credit to the men and women who built it and RIP to the poor souls who gave everything.
All gave some and some gave all
It's so awesome to hear the iconic Mark Hammel aka Luke Skywalker aka the Joker just nonchalantly narrating such informative documentaries
I was a survey assistant on the original undersea survey to find the Gault layers using boreholes, I was 15 and I am now 74 so it was a long time ago. Our boring details gave the direction up and down like a roller coaster. The boring machines followed the levels we gave them.
My respects sir great man men of our time
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Brilliant Documentary i remember when I lived in England in 1985 this was a big deal to return 10 years later from Australia to see it had been built saw simply amazing.
Woa
You must admit when the two tunnels came together and the Englishman shook hands with the French man a bit of pride came
That was teenage friend of mine he went down the pits and then to the tunnel Graham Flagg, he was still working on the rolling stock for the tunnel until he retired.
But the comment above this said the tunnels missed each other.
We'll " it didn't .
Because it opened for business in 1994 ;
I think what you're referring to , is ,
it showed you a computer-generated image (CGI) , just to show people , what it would have looked like ,
if they had indeed missed 🤔
@@jackwatsonepic626 woa
😢🎉❤❤f
Proud to say "I was there"😊
They used Brunells tunnel boring machine, and geometric theodolite to get them to meet. The tunnel boring machine is what was used to dig train tunnels over 150 years ago. Brunell was amazing.
Really fulljoyed watching such great historic moments to the end.... God is good everlasting for giving mankind the knowledge to achieved such an acomplisment.
Now many people just board the trains without knowing the sacrifice of the people who built them. Kudos to them who built them and rip to those who lost their lives because of it.
Horrible way to die
👍👍 unity is progress
An Engineering marvel. What a beautiful accomplishment .
Thank you for the share . Nice
I have been through the tunnel many times, on a coach which drives on to a double decker train. Going through the tunnel is the strangest experience. It's like your taking of in a plane, and at the same time, the motion of the train, makes you feel like your on a boat. It's a most weird thing ever.
Unbilievable what a man can achieve!
This is so awesome. All these men and women working so hard to achieve a common goal.
*all those men
@@wayn3h oops !!
Just curious, are you so bored you cruise YT comments looking for typos 🙄
Because if that’s the case you just hit a gold mine. I often type mine without my reading glasses on. 🤓
A Greatest job, thanks the people who helped the job done.
Brave brothers & sisters always sacrifice themselves to let the rest of us enjoy!!!.
Real mfs right there respects
You are absolutely right,
Super construction by European engineers. Super. How beautiful it is. In 1991. Very nice
Amen & Amen: When I first heard of this technological feat some time ago in a news flash, I saw it as a miracle but today I know this scientific masterpiece is truly the handwork of God🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️
Marvelous Engineering! May God Bless humanity with more awesome undertakings 🙏
Absolutely amazing and well done.
Amazing the improvements in tunneling technology and safety standards employed on HS2.
Excellent post
I'm so glad I came to this channel..
Amazing achievements , glory to God ❤️
Simply Amazing
37:12 For whatever reason, hearing Richard Storer assure us of the safety of the tunnel was akin to a composite of Frank Spencer and Mr Brittas giving a thumbs up for the Titanic.
Why was there a need for the incessant "music" sounds in the background EVEN while the narrator is speaking. Did Progress-Technology believe they needed to entertain us?
Idk but it makes it unwatchable fror me. Id really have to be interested in England to get through the " nails on a chalkboard" they enjoy playing so much
I'm a musician and I agree. There is such a thing as too much of it, especially during narration. At the very least, it should be turned way down in the mix.
I wish I could say I could read these comments without still hearing the background music in my head.
People love taking the popular: How To Ruin Your Video Presentations course. Still taught at WhatsAmattaU and Faber College.
It might be because I have high frequency hearing loss, but I hear his voice above the background music just fine, unlike other documentaries I just couldn’t put up with.
This is scary and amazing,at the same damn time🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
Thanks for the share
It's nice how they minimize the mention of the location of the designers who built the machines that built a tunnel under the channel. Glad the company in the United States can do their part to help. It would be something to ride through
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Good point!
@@We_All_Seek_Truth thank you. I remember this actually I know it's been 6 months ago. But they just kind of glossed over how the company from the United States help them with a major contribution. Or else the tunnel would not have been built.
Who cares about the Americans, they forgot the French lmao. Only english-speaking documentaries can manage to completely miss half of the topic it's hilarious.
@@GordonFreeman-sl6pi yeah we build the French and the rest of your about into world wars. We took over in the war in Vietnam because of the French. As far as French, it is just capitalism. It doesn't pay enough to speak it in French. Besides a lot of stuff coming out of Canada now. As far as getting things WRONG, every person needs to look at that. Because everywhere we've been fed garbage that isn't true. So I would say that checking the truthfulness is a good a thing to do.
(I love engineering!)
1. 10:45 - 12:35 to 13:42 what is that first music?
2. 14:06 what is that second music?
I thought I’d see more Luke Skywalker references in here.
Edit: it’s narrated by Mark Hammil in case you didn’t understand the reference.
I thought I knew the Voice lol😅
Luke, I AM your father.
(James Earl Jones.)
steve
Does anyone have any questions? I spent 4yrs on this job as a planner (which meant I had an all-areas pass). Any CGI in this video came well after the event for a start :-) I worked on the M&E of the UK tunnels (crossover doors, pump station G, PRD's, ER's ) and the UK terminal (ES1, ST doors, etc), around 100No. of the sub projects, as a project planner. Any questions?
Almost all filming was banned at the time (too political). In 4yrs, I think I saw just 1No. film crew on site, at Shakespear Cliff, for half a day.
How much you get paid ?
Hi there. My question is: how long did the average worker work underground during a shift? And how many shift’s were there? Was this a 24/7 operation? And were did the workers go for a break once far down in the tunnel? Thanks
@@nooneisrightallthetime-zv7hs I was full time, so the usual going rate. Contractors and shift workers sometimes got far more.
@@x-marks-x5137 Worst case might be 8hrs on site, plus 4hrs to get there on a construction train, and another 4hrs to return. So 16hrs underground. 24/7 working, 3-shifts. Nowhere to go for a break other than perhaps a quieter and drier area.
How far is the top of the tunnel from the sea floor?
And if you go back to 1815 (the battle of Waterloo) and say we have an underwater tunnel from France 🇫🇷 to England 🏴 like getting on a normal train in 1994 ,179 years later they would laugh at you 🤔 they would say well what the f**k are we fighting for then 😂
The greatest Tunel, from euro Created ,this mekanik monster Amazing, God blasd your, 🇮🇩😍😎😉🙏
Awesome
We have traveled this tunnel.
Its finished, watched a few youtubers park on the train and go to France from England or back. Nice goin those people!
What a way to get together
It's An Amazing Feat
This huge structure can become a big shelter when Nuclear war broke out.👍
Excellent point 🤔👍👍
0.09% of fatality rate for such an enormous and dangerous project is impressive.
1 in a 1000 is not great tbf
Big cheer for Science !
I was the electrical draughtsman at Howdens in Glasgow in 1987 that built the TBM's. One seabound the other for land.
Doubt it
@Soggy Doubt what ?.. Howdens engineering factory was in the South Side of Glasgow, one of my customers was a senior engineer there.. you doubt that too ..tit
@@soggy8572 I am afraid it was me. My initials are on all the Howden's electrical / instrument drawings which shall be archived somewhere with my engineer's initials (WH). I still have the original layout drawing (an A1 by approx. 10M long) which was on display when Margaret Thatcher came. Three years later all work was done on CAD. Sorry to disappoint you Soggy Pants
This project is a testament to what could be achieved by humans if they come together to take on the challenges facing humanity.
Musk is already doing this with his boring company
@@URFUTUREUK Musk should stick with engineering and leave politics to politians. His MAGA stuff on Twitter is a disaster. Twitter itself is a desaster since he took over. Financially and reputation wise disastrous
Humanity is the biggest challenge to humanity. We're getting in our own way with hubris, ego, religion, fads, illogic and stupidity.
@@spankyjeffro5320 Wise words. Thank you
We don't have anything close to this technology in the US. Our trains are about 60 years behind the times.
do we need them......we waste enough money on useless shit
Just curious, was TBM from England side was abandoned then ?
Definitely a super structure deserving of Luke Skywalker to narrate. 😊
There should be one such Railway Tunnel between England and Ireland to bring them closer.
Would like to see them do a channel tunnel from Cornwall to New York, but that would cost about £500 Trillion
This is a human wonder
well it's like everything in the UK we are being left behind in everything, they could have carried on and called it hs2. could have gone all the way to Scotland with stations along the way and feeder trains or underground lines to connect to the stations well done the UK.
September 2004. Sir Alastair Morton had died of a heart attack at the age of 66. RIP Mr Moreton.
"some workers would not survive". People died. That's a shitty way to phrase on the job injuries and fatalities.
so agree
Wow ,friction from the train was amazing..raising temps to 140 degrees...did it scrape the sides?
I don't think so. The air forced past the train heats up during each crossing. It has nowhere to go so overtime it builds, the water takes the heat away.
And now 29 years later it is as simple as jumping on a train who'd have thought , hey
what next , a bridge over the Atlantic from Ireland 🇨🇮 to Canada 🇨🇦
after watching this " never say never who knows what will be done in the next 179 years because the people of the battle of Waterloo in 1815 would have laughed at this project
never mind a bridge across the Atlantic 🤔
ireland to Greenland , greenland to canada
@@Akinwalesegun ok then
13:38... Maybe that explains why so little French workers died.
13:54... And this explains why most of the dead ones are British.... And Brexit too.
Just a guess.
???????
What? Duh!!!
The English lottery winner looked like a stodgy Englishman that had never received a warm greeting in his life
Those twin tunnels at the end has a rough finish of cement work Lol
As a kid living on a farm we bought one of the case diggers used for the tunnel the arm on the digger could spin 360 could fit a mini in the bucket
"Luuuuuuke!... You are my narrator!"
What a task?
7:30 Fire Nation
Which is cheaper bridge or under tunnel?
I just think bridge will be cheaper
wow
So when are they going to put in a tunnel to Ireland ?
I'm here, having listened to a BBC World News live sounds podcast about the making, the accomplishments of Eurotunnel under the witness history section yesterday.
I'm amazed too and at the same time disappointed with the least consideration that this documentary maker did on the French experience interviews: why didn't you guys interview the French counterpart, as well? Your British politeness was also supposed to have made video clips of the French men and women who worked for the making of this united civil, mechanical, and manufacturing marvel of the 90s. It is rather sad and unpolite.
The tunnel is not laying on the ocean floor its under a ton of rock & dirt there is no water on it they dug threw the earth otherwise they woul float tunnel sections & connect them then cover it with dirt
"...the most POWERFUL locomotive, in the world."
UP 4014, "hold my case of beers!" And, I do it on
STEAM power! Let's see you pull that up the
Wasatch front.
steve
1:23 shame things have got better, seems everyone makes it now
It seems strange to hear an American say 'Railway'!!!!
Amazing, my fear is now EV fires. The trains should have a new plan. Absolutely no stopping until they get out. There is too much at risk.
If white men work together with other people, we cud together solve any problem on earth.
Why don't they show their satanic celebration at the hole on the day it opened. People watching this should see that.
Europe sure seems to do a lot of things that Napoleon and Hilter wanted to do.
I was wanting to watch this until I heard Mark Hamill narrating it.
His voice is irritating and it can be condescending as well.
With WWIII looming large, I fear that the Eurotunnel could become a target for Russian nukes over the next decade or so. It is 1940s all over again.
Hey there be soon be talking Fren-glish or Engli-rench, in England and France.
It initially there was to be one tunnel,but they hired the firm of Maloney and Son. The son started in digging in France and the dad started digging in England. Well they missed each other,thus the reason for two tunnels.
Simply not true. The first tunnel was the service tunnel followed by the North and South tunnels. The video describes this in detail. There were always going to be the three tunnels.
@@darrenlane6316 it’s a joke
Video froze up still narration
Most of the documentaries have loud and irritating background music.
This has been probably the best cross-Channel achievement in history (though the Concorde wasn't bad). Keep a sharp eye on those nay-sayers, jingoists and nasty nationalistic politicians on any side who would never have wanted such projects to get going in the first place.
Plot twist
They found the tunnels already built
In a nutshell we are trading more power consumption for less noise in the blades
Is that Mark Hamill narrating?
...and narrated by... LUKE SKYWALKER!!!
Narrated by Luke Skywalker himself.
Digging at both ends to meet in the middle was stupid. They had to just throw away one of the TBMs. They were digging THREE tunnels! What a waste. Children are starving in India! Seriously, I don't get it, unless... they wanted to HAVE that big meeting in the middle to get the people amped up with all the partying. It makes a lot of political sense.
I just keep thinking about all the deaths in the future.
Look at all the years of smoking it's saved tobacco would have got this guy in the end regardless
Yes, human beings can be constructive and destructive at the same time. Both natures inhabit our character traits. Eventually, we create and destroy our and nature's creations.
What monthly wage does the workers that did ALL the physicals labor in tunnel got? I know, as min as company could pay them xD
Nobody forced them to work on the project.
Jackson, Zzzz
As much as the workers chose to negotiate.
and soon two decades later in 2020 brexit happened. It added to the complexities of cross border trade and travel.
The tunnel is underground ,there is the english channel is above the tunnel
It's nice how they minimize the mention of the location of the designers who built the machines that built a tunnel under the channel.
Do you really believe migrants can navigate a little dinghy across that channel without a radar?
by definition, England is absolutely an island.
And english are fed with food which even 🐷 would refuse to eat it.
@@ciujoWhen the Romans invaded they forgot to bring cookbooks and toothbrushes.
Only France can link to Uk lol
This is obviously the blatant ignorance thread.