European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Historic link nears completion Channel May threaten ferry ports editor s. Note it was hooted As Folly when englandd a France signed a treaty permitting the digging of two in funnels underneath he English Channel which a. No jets the two. Countries. Now the digging is almost a Icem pitted and High Speed trains Are expected to Start Quot a a scuttling Between Paris and London in 1993 that s not a Good hews for people in the ferryboat business a by Patrick Mcdowell. Associated press. In o n a Clear Day one really the White Cliffs of Dover. They glitter on the far Side of Quot the English Channel a Beacon for ferries crisscrossing the 23 Miles of water separating England from France. A. A Bui there Are no vistas sea Breeze or Sunshine for the workmen toiling 140 feet underneath the Bluffs at san Gatte France to finish Tunnel familiarly known As the Channel a the worlds biggest a construction project. A w a a the Only color Here is mud Gray the Only Light from Quot magnesium bulbs Strung along the gloomy passages 5 snaking under the sea into another country. A Down Here its a different world Quot remarks 42-year-old Tun Neler Louis Boutin to a reporter still trying to make out things in the darkness. A a prehistoric we find a lot of fossils. Some i keep some i throw a a a a. Hooted As Folly when the British and French a a a. A a a a a a. Governments signed a treaty to build them in 1985, the = three undersea this tourist Village with Folkestone England Are nearly finished a a a the maintenance Tunnel was completed on dec 1, a history making event that gave Britain its first land link with Europe since the last ice age 8,000 years ago Quot now workers from England and France expect to fully join he two. Main rail tunnels by late june. They will then Lay track for High Speed trains that will carry passengers cars and heavy trucks from pans to London in"3 is hours. Passport please a a customs officer demands of dangers. A a. It British Miner Roy West left and French Tunnel manager Philippe Dumont celebrated the dec. 1, 1990, breakthrough of a service train with Flag waving at san Gatte France. A _. _ motorists will get reminder associated press a britons drive left frenchmen on the right uninformed sceptics have predicted huge head on collisions when they meet in the a a a Channel Tunnel Quot. A a there wont be any at least inside the Tunnel. The Channel tunnels Lor trains nol cars. But what will. Happen Tram deposits a car at. The other end of the Tunnel is another question. A a a. ,. A eur Tunnel plans to handle 20 trains an hour carrying a some 13. 5. Million passengers a year when the tunnels. A open Lor business in 1993 a Hall will to chisel nosed tvs train a Grande Viesse or High Speed trains a whisking riders from pans Tolondo and Back at speeds of up to 200 Mph. The others will be specially constructed trams carrying cars buses and heavy trucks. A motorists will drive aboard the special freight cars at huge terminals in san Gatte and Folkestone England and Remai nun their vehicles As the train makes the 20-minute crossing a i a a Quot. Of course once the cars Are unloaded on the. Other sick and dovers descend into unfamiliar streets anything can happen. Quot Quot to keep the terminals Fronis becoming junkyards British. And French Road safety organizations have launched a. /. Pre Tunnel awareness Campaign. -. _ British motorists taking the ferry to the continent. this summer Quot will receive yellow stickers Reading Quot keep right Quot to remind them of european driving. Customs. A. Signs bearing similar messages will Greet them when Quot disembarking a Quot keep Campaign will educate motorists going the. Other Way. A a the project will continue for the Channel Tunnel Quot organizers Hope tfx Era Tiro motorists will remember to take. The stickers Olf when they got Home. A Tunnel tog machines Thasa Opsaal Pat eat of Roqu Amor dig remove Rock Ami put laser Beauta Kapatha a River Oft course the 7�j0 Touti Long Caterpillar presses curved slabs into the newly exposed Tunnel As it dt0� along. The timetable Calls for 650 feet to be Duge Aoh week. Travelling the Tunnel will take 35 minutes. During the trip passengers will be Able to stary in their vehicles or the shuttle trains. England the Overall length of the Tunnel is 31 Miles 24 Miles of it underwater. France a we a Vy-wav.1 Tunnel a worker walks one of the main tunnels. Yes passports. Ever since the service Tunnel was completed last year a daring traveler could theoretically a walk the Border. One German youth has already been caught trying. A a a a. When the trains Start rolling in mid-1993 the nearby Quot a ferry port of Calais will be threatened with the loss of passengers. A. A a a Quot i Hope the Tunnel closes this place Down a. Says a Michael Ellison 32, a London in the tatty ferry terminal after missing . Quot what an awful pit Quot. But a Way of site will end , Normal population .840, Homo for the last few years to 5,000 mud spattered roughnecks who defied centuries of Anglo French a distrust. They labor in subterranean vaults of steel. of late co i me. . A. 1 a we a a s Hoad Darjes sits atop a a pm. J so a form Vado 330 foe straight Down the san Gatto cd is the Tim nols Jln it it Foa mme a a a the Shaft. Which took 1o to fore w or k every a. St at Tod on to train tunnels Serveas the to adm port. Air Cor Houf is one Tike used for vent inner ships eau in Torii into the Quot Ehan lie Orvle Rashoo a a. A to the pit stands a control off tee fined with video Semens comp tvs blinking lights and telephones it looks like a command Center for a Nasa space launch. From Heie. Special psf Monitor electricity and air flew. Into the Tunnel they medical /. Teams Crews at the firs sum at an Accident a we re most afraid of. Quot says William a a a a Coleman a spokesman Tor eur Tunnel the an pin French that will run the Tunnel Quot we can Calk in the. A military if we have to a a a a a. A. L. Eight men have been killed since digging began. A elevators lower tire workers into a vast poorly that is the Hub of. operations a foyer to the three tunnels themselves that shoot off North and South into utter blackness. A a -. A c workers have their private subway Liny narrow gauge a service trams that trundle them 22 at a Lime Down the a a a tunnels to the digging machines. Magnesium lights barely Dent a by a a Fine Mist. Train sirens and enormous machinery Emit an internal do. Everything smells of mud or grease but a mostly mud. A a a a a after depositing the workers at the head of the tuned. Hip trams Tow Back carloads of diet and Rock Hen out of the seabed 565.000 cubic feet a Day a a. A. A crud is dumped into live Iron churns and mixed .-3 with Waler from there the Sluby is pumped out to a darn. Above ground the water is separated from the muck and used again a a -. A v a p. Miles Down the Tunnel shafts 1 250 ton Tunnel Honno i machines High and nicknamed Europa and Caf Honne at Blue Marl. The a a or a continued on Page 16 a above Chalk Cliffs Rise above the Busy Channel work site in Dover England. Left a British employee works beneath a Banner shortly before the first breakthrough in the service Tunnel in late 1990 june 4-1001
