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@jesuslaron4019 6 ай бұрын

Wow what a beautiful and superb man made tunnel. Congrats to the two countries who combined their knowledge and effort. Mabuhay!!!!

@jojolafrite90 5 ай бұрын

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.

@surensalgado5430 Жыл бұрын

Amazing achievement. Great EURO TUNNEL.

@richardjns17 Жыл бұрын

Proud to say "I was there"😊

@ifeanyindukuba 6 ай бұрын

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.

@sagebiddi Жыл бұрын

It's so awesome to hear the iconic Mark Hammel aka Luke Skywalker aka the Joker just nonchalantly narrating such informative documentaries

@sheikhabrahim4057 Жыл бұрын

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.

@arlen1630 Жыл бұрын

I feel that if they built the Holland and Lincoln tunnels why such amazement

@jeanbrown8295 Жыл бұрын

The Eurotbunnel should never have been built

@sheikhabrahim4057 Жыл бұрын

@@jeanbrown8295 what else "should never have been built?"

@arlen1630 Жыл бұрын

@@sheikhabrahim4057 the Yugo

@sheikhabrahim4057 Жыл бұрын

@@arlen1630 ...are you referring to the hatchback car?

@richardbailey64 Жыл бұрын

A simply unbelievable achievement. Credit to the men and women who built it and RIP to the poor souls who gave everything.

@monsantofungaro5704 3 ай бұрын

All gave some and some gave all

@chuckprahl170 Жыл бұрын

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!

@GWAYGWAY1 Жыл бұрын

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.

@JoseDeJesus-gi3oh Жыл бұрын

My respects sir great man men of our time

@beckyillcherotich9457 Жыл бұрын

Great 👍

@muhammadyousuf4345 11 ай бұрын

@@beckyillcherotich9457تر عورت ووقق

@christopherdale7017 Жыл бұрын

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.

@JoseDeJesus-gi3oh Жыл бұрын

Woa

@rosesforever8806 6 ай бұрын

Really fulljoyed watching such great historic moments to the end.... God is good everlasting for giving mankind the knowledge to achieved such an acomplisment.

@chrismac2234 3 ай бұрын

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.

@punemsujithkumar4849 Жыл бұрын

👍👍 unity is progress

@jackwatsonepic626 Жыл бұрын

You must admit when the two tunnels came together and the Englishman shook hands with the French man a bit of pride came

@GWAYGWAY1 Жыл бұрын

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.

@justmyopinion8395 Жыл бұрын

But the comment above this said the tunnels missed each other.

@jackwatsonepic626 Жыл бұрын

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 🤔

@JoseDeJesus-gi3oh Жыл бұрын

@@jackwatsonepic626 woa

@williambaucum6070 11 ай бұрын

😢🎉❤❤f

@kumarweerasingha7337 11 ай бұрын

A Greatest job, thanks the people who helped the job done.

@smt1979 5 ай бұрын

Unbilievable what a man can achieve!

@user-hb7py7xy7b 6 ай бұрын

0.09% of fatality rate for such an enormous and dangerous project is impressive.

@Zakariah1971 Жыл бұрын

Excellent post

@felixyongco4420 Жыл бұрын

An Engineering marvel. What a beautiful accomplishment . Thank you for the share . Nice

@rosemarygriffin2184 Жыл бұрын

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.

@hellanimes3510 10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I came to this channel.. Amazing achievements , glory to God ❤️

@sujatha.m848 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the share

@mikeconnery4652 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing and well done.

@marvinoliver3676 Жыл бұрын

This is scary and amazing,at the same damn time🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

@AlbertLebel Жыл бұрын

This is so awesome. All these men and women working so hard to achieve a common goal.

@CCaribou Жыл бұрын

*all those men

@AlbertLebel Жыл бұрын

@@CCaribou 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. 🤓

@MrDavidht Жыл бұрын

Amazing the improvements in tunneling technology and safety standards employed on HS2.

@rajumatthews2270 8 ай бұрын

Marvelous Engineering! May God Bless humanity with more awesome undertakings 🙏

@joechauhan5026 10 ай бұрын

Super construction by European engineers. Super. How beautiful it is. In 1991. Very nice

@ahaiban1 Жыл бұрын

Brave brothers & sisters always sacrifice themselves to let the rest of us enjoy!!!.

@JoseDeJesus-gi3oh Жыл бұрын

Real mfs right there respects

@philisolo7948 Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right,

@VIPERFUTURE Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@quartermaster-post.3875 Жыл бұрын

(I love engineering!)

@steveskare7026 Жыл бұрын

We have traveled this tunnel.

@obetgamaliatobondo3914 Жыл бұрын

The greatest Tunel, from euro Created ,this mekanik monster Amazing, God blasd your, 🇮🇩😍😎😉🙏

@cassiusijeomah4239 Жыл бұрын

It's An Amazing Feat

@Reverendclementegbekai 6 ай бұрын

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🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️

@ericgiebel498 10 ай бұрын

What a way to get together

@michaelclark2872 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like the force is strong in this video

@gregbolitho9775 10 ай бұрын

Its finished, watched a few youtubers park on the train and go to France from England or back. Nice goin those people!

@hyacinthmoon6289 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jackwatsonepic626 Жыл бұрын

I thought I knew the Voice lol😅

@steveskouson9620 Жыл бұрын

Luke, I AM your father. (James Earl Jones.) steve

@tigeragri5355 10 ай бұрын

This is a human wonder

@craigr.h.laurent240 Жыл бұрын

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?

@TheGreyGhost_of43rd 4 ай бұрын

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

@TheAnetmusik 4 ай бұрын

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.

@jeffoneill3429 3 ай бұрын

I wish I could say I could read these comments without still hearing the background music in my head.

@pressureworks 3 ай бұрын

People love taking the popular: How To Ruin Your Video Presentations course. Still taught at WhatsAmattaU and Faber College.

@lupemerrit 5 ай бұрын

Big cheer for Science !

@RuwindaFernando Жыл бұрын

Just curious, was TBM from England side was abandoned then ?

@Preview43 5 ай бұрын

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.

@joeyfrench4517 3 ай бұрын

1. 10:45 - 12:35 to 13:42 what is that first music? 2. 14:06 what is that second music?

@Charmis452 6 ай бұрын

There should be one such Railway Tunnel between England and Ireland to bring them closer.

@jackwatsonepic626 Жыл бұрын

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 😂

@wipahuratapine3711 Жыл бұрын

Those twin tunnels at the end has a rough finish of cement work Lol

@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 Жыл бұрын

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

@BigEightiesNewWave 6 ай бұрын

29100 Hall Street Solon, OH 44139 USA

@We_Seek_Truth 5 ай бұрын

Good point!

@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 5 ай бұрын

@@We_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.

@GordonFreeman-sl6pi 4 ай бұрын

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.

@CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@JhunDumsTVXj Жыл бұрын

wow

@MarkJoseph81 Жыл бұрын

"Luuuuuuke!... You are my narrator!"

@thomaskilpatrick850 Жыл бұрын

I was the electrical draughtsman at Howdens in Glasgow in 1987 that built the TBM's. One seabound the other for land.

@soggy8572 Жыл бұрын

Doubt it

@Stu-SB Жыл бұрын

@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

@thomaskilpatrick850 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@2dogsf-ing 5 ай бұрын

Definitely a super structure deserving of Luke Skywalker to narrate. 😊

@M29203 9 ай бұрын

Plot twist They found the tunnels already built

@art_ileryscholer4620 Жыл бұрын

7:30 Fire Nation

@thedarkhorse100 Жыл бұрын

The English lottery winner looked like a stodgy Englishman that had never received a warm greeting in his life

@obehiokojie4066 Жыл бұрын

This project is a testament to what could be achieved by humans if they come together to take on the challenges facing humanity.

@URFUTUREUK 9 ай бұрын

Musk is already doing this with his boring company

@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 9 ай бұрын

@@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

@spankyjeffro5320 6 ай бұрын

Humanity is the biggest challenge to humanity. We're getting in our own way with hubris, ego, religion, fads, illogic and stupidity.

@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 6 ай бұрын

@@spankyjeffro5320 Wise words. Thank you

@terranceyeo3087 11 ай бұрын

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.

@enriquelandaf 3 ай бұрын

Hey there be soon be talking Fren-glish or Engli-rench, in England and France.

@jacksugden8190 Жыл бұрын

September 2004. Sir Alastair Morton had died of a heart attack at the age of 66. RIP Mr Moreton.

@arlen1630 Жыл бұрын

Wow ,friction from the train was amazing..raising temps to 140 degrees...did it scrape the sides?

@SimonEllwood 10 ай бұрын

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.

@ommadammo Жыл бұрын

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.

@nooneisrightallthetime-zv7hs Жыл бұрын

How much you get paid ?

@x-marks-x5137 Жыл бұрын

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

@ommadammo Жыл бұрын

@@nooneisrightallthetime-zv7hs I was full time, so the usual going rate. Contractors and shift workers sometimes got far more.

@ommadammo Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@johnr5252 Жыл бұрын

How far is the top of the tunnel from the sea floor?

@jackwatsonepic626 Жыл бұрын

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 🤔

@Akinwalesegun Жыл бұрын

ireland to Greenland , greenland to canada

@jackwatsonepic626 Жыл бұрын

@@Akinwalesegun ok then

@ferdinandbuss9859 Жыл бұрын

Pogi ako 😂

@aarondavies8486 Жыл бұрын

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

@janiceevans6928 11 ай бұрын

We don't have anything close to this technology in the US. Our trains are about 60 years behind the times.

@MikeHunt-fo3ow 10 ай бұрын

do we need them......we waste enough money on useless shit

@olajideewetayo3304 Жыл бұрын

In a nutshell we are trading more power consumption for less noise in the blades

@joer3739 11 ай бұрын

Video froze up still narration

@verolmackenzie8977 Жыл бұрын

Andrew McKennon is my family

@billotto602 Жыл бұрын

So when are they going to put in a tunnel to Ireland ?

@matthewperry5524 Жыл бұрын

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

@kevinkeiper2275 4 ай бұрын

...and narrated by... LUKE SKYWALKER!!!

@rontakabuda4474 Жыл бұрын

This huge structure can become a big shelter when Nuclear war broke out.👍

@Daniel-ig9cq Жыл бұрын

Excellent point 🤔👍👍

@wizzohizzo Жыл бұрын

The narrator makes it sound like some tsunami incident lol

@elisabetta4478 13 күн бұрын

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.

@ernestodelacruz9392 Жыл бұрын

Which is cheaper bridge or under tunnel?

@nyhuruwolfgang4945 Жыл бұрын

I just think bridge will be cheaper

@pauloconnor2980 Жыл бұрын

It seems strange to hear an American say 'Railway'!!!!

@BurrosdccollectionCERROSx3GLX3 3 ай бұрын

2.9.24😮

@sunilkumar-zu2xs 8 ай бұрын

yha bhoot tunal ki jrurat hai jo ki khaas hai bihar to rusiya to big project khaas bihar pepls ke liye

@elisabetta4478 13 күн бұрын

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.

@dannyisaacs3877 8 ай бұрын

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.

@kirkengnath5501 4 ай бұрын

That's right if you want the impossable come to America, land of the free thinker's.

@mecurian485 Жыл бұрын

Narrated by Luke Skywalker himself.

@steveskouson9620 Жыл бұрын

"...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

@Finu_Lanu 10 ай бұрын

I was wanting to watch this until I heard Mark Hamill narrating it.

@noelt2238 7 ай бұрын

His voice is irritating and it can be condescending as well.

@CoochieGrabberTrump 9 ай бұрын

Instead of the british digging down at the end to bury the machine they should have turned left or right of the french half of the tunnel that way they could have continued using that machine to start the 2nd tunnel from the halfway point then when the french broke thru to the british half of the tunnel they could also turn so that they start the 2nd tunnel on the british side parallel with each other then connect in the middle then when they both come out each end they can go back in and start the 3rd and finsh and bury both at the end but it would allow them to reuse them machines the whole time.without wasting money on new ones

@spankyjeffro5320 6 ай бұрын

Easier to just make a new machine. Up-speccing the old machine to be "like new" would be more work than just making a new one. New machines can be built to spec easier and have a much longer life than a refurbished machine.

@shefferg 11 ай бұрын

Is that Mark Hamill narrating?

@I_am_BiG_Al Жыл бұрын

1:23 shame things have got better, seems everyone makes it now

@DavidJohnson-yg8qm 5 ай бұрын

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.

@user-bo4ke5gj5c 5 ай бұрын

H0w does The Channel Boring project relate to Elon Musk's The Boring Co?

@dennismiller9979 Жыл бұрын

Look at all the years of smoking it's saved tobacco would have got this guy in the end regardless

@lawrencemay8671 Жыл бұрын

That’s what they basically said about the Titanic

@jackie6343 Жыл бұрын

The tunnel is underground ,there is the english channel is above the tunnel

@alfredoluisreyna4237 7 ай бұрын

So it's possible to create a tunnel from China to Taiwan?

@ciprianiuga1203 5 ай бұрын

7600 hp - the equivalent of about 100 average cars

@seangaun Жыл бұрын

Haunted tunnel

@thomaswade3072 Жыл бұрын

"some workers would not survive". People died. That's a shitty way to phrase on the job injuries and fatalities.

@noelt2238 7 ай бұрын

so agree

@panrick Жыл бұрын

is Luke Skywalker the narrator?

@gunzoberelo9878 Жыл бұрын

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

@jackson_68 Жыл бұрын

Nobody forced them to work on the project.

@Liverpoolboy01 Жыл бұрын

Jackson, Zzzz

@spankyjeffro5320 6 ай бұрын

As much as the workers chose to negotiate.