The Channel Tunnel Story
eBook - ePub

The Channel Tunnel Story

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Channel Tunnel Story

About this book

The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14, 000 people at peak, and costing over 11 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial, political and techncial difficulties, and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project, based on the coverage in Construction News and with

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
1994
eBook ISBN
9781040218952
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Key dates
  9. Key facts
  10. 1 The end of a dream
  11. 2 A fait accompli?
  12. 3 The race for the mandate
  13. 4 Sherwood’s surprise
  14. 5 Concessions and treaties
  15. 6 Money and politics
  16. 7 Planning and designs
  17. 8 Morton takes charge
  18. 9 High risk, high return
  19. 10 The contractors start work
  20. 11 All change at TML
  21. 12 Tragedy strikes
  22. 13 The ÂŁ1 billion row
  23. 14 Building the Channel Tunnel
  24. 15 King of the tunnels
  25. 16 TML’s £1.4 billion bill
  26. 17 History man
  27. 18 More talks but no trains
  28. 19 Brussels backs Eurotunnel
  29. 20 Bombardier’s bombshell
  30. 21 Hail to the chief
  31. 22 Site warfare breaks out
  32. 23 The slow train to France
  33. Epilogue
  34. Index