For many, many years there have been several attempts to connect England and France. Bridges and tunnels have been conspired, but all attempts failed. Many thought it could never be done, but England and France have finally been connected via the English Channel through a subaqueous tunnel. The English Channel Tunnel is one of the world's greatest engineering feats.
             For more than two centuries, there have been numerous attempts and plans to link England and France across the English Channel. Iron bridges, undersea tunnels, causeways and damns were suggested in every way and combination possible. The main reasons for the attempts that failed were due to lack of technology and funding. (Featherson 4) In 1987, a dream became a reality for all of Europe when preliminary work on a tunnel under the English Channel began.
             Construction on the project was one of the world's largest undertaken on the planet. "The tunnel was more than a hole in the ground. Its one of the world's largest engineering projects ever," says Gordon Creighton, a project developer. (Featherson 3) The two main stations are on Shakespeare Cliff in England and Coquelles in France. The English Channel Tunnel was a complex web of tunnels. There were a total of about twelve tunnels; six on England's side and six on France's side. The tunnels on each side started at the bottom of a 110-meter shaft. There are three main tunnels; two main rail tunnels and one maintenance tunnel. (Kirkland 255) "This is actually an easy tunnel. It is just a long, long process of construction," says Peter Bermingham, a project engineer. (Newman 40)
             The service tunnel is used to transport emergency as well as maintance equiptment. The two rail tunnels were to transport the trains traveling in each direction. The the basic tunnels; service and two main rail tunnels; were designed in a clever way. The two rail tunnels were on ...