the innuendos in this is a gift!

Good quality recording that didn't seem to degenerate over the years now that quality is reproduced digitally and can be watched anytime forever .

I'm neither British or French, but you can't help but feel a tremendous sense of national pride for both of those countries watching this, even after all these years.

Really miss tomorrows world. It seems dated now but I never felt patronised by the presenters in the way you do when watching things like Click. I started work on the tunnel just a few weeks after this was filmed. One of the best jobs I have had. A brilliant achievement that we should be proud of. Sadly Brits seem to prefer whinging and whining about cost and foreigners, despite the fact the Brits use it more than anyone else and it has over time made money.

Watched this on zbc back in the 80's and 90's..

A few years later I travelled in the channel tunnel. It was great!!

A prime timeinformative programme covering several aspects in an intelligent way. Why does there not seem to be much of that today?

What a fantastic project its mind blowing what humans can achieve 😀 Also I loved the nostalgia from watching this amazing programme. I used to love Tomorrow's World ☺

This is when the BBC made real TV shows. Great theme music, too.

Quite a stunning feat of human engineering.

I'm still waiting for the direct train from Glasgow to Vienna

28 years later & they're still using the same rolling stock!

It'll probably get bricked up the way things are going :-(

Thanks for posting this full episode, it's a real blast from the past, I was a fan of this show as a child.

In days when tape players were still in cars, they did THIS !! Absolutely amazing..makes you proud to be British 🇬🇧

those "piston vents" proved to be problematic during the channel tunnel fire in 1996 because they allowed toxic smoke from the burning train to end up in the other tunnel. They changed the procedures for freight trains going through the tunnel because of that fire. Also because of that fire, regulation for the Great Belt tunnel in Denmark which opened for trains in 1997 was made so freight trains are not allowed in the tunnels at the same time as passenger trains. This was carried over to the Øresund connection when it opened in 2000, which has the additional rule that freight trains are not allowed through the tunnel and station at Kastrup/Copenhagen Airport, so there's an extra track above ground that takes freight trains around the airport

Very good to hear that there was some cooperation with French Antenne 2 on that report

A tunnel under the sea? Nah, this will never work!

Tunneling under the sea. I am flabbergasted.

Back when people could organize a night out without mobile phones. Now days phone cant organise anything even with phones.

These miners earnt some proper proper money. 1300 a week in the late 80s?!

Kate laughs about all the talk about shafts

Anyone else thinking what if Alan Partridge had taken part in this ??

This is the shaft Kate is going down. :)

then Ryanair came with 10 quid London - Paris and nobody would give a shit anymore

They thought it was going to be so great.. modern generation goes it's a tunnel, SO? to France. SO?..under the sea..SO?..?🙂

They jumped forward to 1993 but failed to predict the Insectoid invasion of '92.

Good until the embarrassing bit with the steering wheel. Then I was done

Projects like this just help us consume our environment faster

rabies lol

2019! and we want to brick the bloody thing up!! BREXIT!!

And 30 years on it runs like a bag of shite

So there were four or five abortive attempts to construct the Channel Tunnel...And then after all that, they *finally* worked out how to do it... /* Turns gaze toward Brexit, realises it's completely doomed this time around, and unleashes as evil laugh... ;-) */

It should never have been built! Well, not to perfideous France anyway.