The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel
The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel

Author: Terry Gourvish

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 1134165447

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Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94. This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and private sectors), revealing new insights into the role of the British and French Governments in the process. This important book, written by Britain’s leading transport historian, will be essential reading for all those interested in PPPs, British and European economic history and international relations. The building of the Channel Tunnel has been one of Europe’s major projects and a testimony to British-French and public-private sector collaboration. However, Eurotunnel’s current financial crisis provides a sobering backcloth for an examination of the British Government’s long-term flirtation with the project, and, in particular, the earlier Tunnel project in the 1960s and early 1970s, which was abandoned by the British Government in 1975.

The Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel

Author: Sandy Donovan

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780822546924

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A history of the building of the Channel Tunnel, which connects England and France, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a tunnel where some engineers said it could not be done.

Engineering the Channel Tunnel
Engineering the Channel Tunnel

Author: Colin Kirkland

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1995-07-27

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780419179207

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The Channel Tunnel may be the greatest engineering project in Europe this century. This book describes the tremendous engineering achievement of the construction of the tunnel. Written by twenty of the key engineers involved, it provides a fascinating, informative and inspiring account of the project for both engineering professionals and general readers.

The Penguin Companion to European Union
The Penguin Companion to European Union

Author: Anthony Teasdale

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780141021188

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The focus of this book is on the fifteen-member European Union but its coverage extends to many other bodies which form part of today's Europe, such as the Council of Europe, the European Economic Area and Western European Union.

Engineering Geology of the Channel Tunnel
Engineering Geology of the Channel Tunnel

Author: Colin S. Harris

Publisher: Thomas Telford

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 9780727720450

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The Channel Tunnel has been called the greatest engineering project of the century, overcoming a unique set of financial, political and engineering challenges. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the events which culminated in the first dry link between Britain and France. It describes the relationship between the site investigation, data interpretation and construction of the works. It examines areas such as the difficulties inherent in predicting geology from a relatively small number of boreholes and revealing how the use of modern geophysical techniques.

The Chunnel
The Chunnel

Author: Drew Fetherston

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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In a "business narrative of high risk and high finance, of culture clashes and reckless blunders," the author explains the tunnel from an engineering standpoint and also from the viewpoint of the financiers who had planned to make money on the project.

The Channel Tunnel Story
The Channel Tunnel Story

Author: G Anderson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0203362292

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The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14,000 people at peak, and costing over 15611 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 commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources.

The History of the Channel Tunnel
The History of the Channel Tunnel

Author: Nicholas Faith

Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781526712998

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The Channel Tunnel, has been one of histories most protracted and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when there was a fear that foreign hordes would rush through the tunnel and invade Britain, to the lethargic attempts in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its a miracle, that this great feat of Engineering, was ever constructed at all. Nicholas Faith, has delved into the archives and researched the fascinating truth about this project, that took so long to authorise and construct. The author has found material in the archives, both in Britain and abroad, that has not been previously published or seen, outside a closed group of people.

Bridging Divides
Bridging Divides

Author: Eve Darian-Smith

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-10-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780520921832

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In a study that is original and timely, Eve Darian-Smith uses the Channel Tunnel between England and France to explore the shifting geographies of nationalism, postcolonialism, and legal autonomy in the formation of the European Union. Conducting ethnographic research in Kent, the county at the English mouth of the Tunnel, she looks at regional differences in feelings about Europe and at the vocabulary used in discussing the Tunnel. Visual representations—political cartoons, photographs, etchings—regarding the Tunnel are also examined. Two hundred years after Napoleon planned to invade England via a tunnel, the completion in 1994 of a fast rail link between Great Britain and the European mainland symbolizes the disintegration of conventional state borders. While the Tunnel precariously affirms the ideal of a united Europe, it also brings to the fore questions of boundaries between the first and third worlds, colonizers and colonized, and the "East" and the "West." Bridging Divides is about much more than an engineering feat. By exploring historical narratives, tunnel stories, and legal myths, Darian-Smith's study shows the interconnections between people's memories of the past and current history.

France and Britain, 1940-1994
France and Britain, 1940-1994

Author: P. M. H Bell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1317888413

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This is the second volume in Philip Bell's study of Franco-British relations in the twentieth century It covers the period from the Fall of France in 1940 to the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Philip Bell views the half-century as a long separation - with France committed early on to a new concept of Europe, in partnership with Germany, whilst Britain stood apart. The tensions and resentments it has generated have kept French/British relations at the very heart of the burning question of Britain's place in Europe. Yet the story has another side, to which Philip Bell also does justice. Much has been achieved by the two countries together and alongside their European partners. For all their divergencies and antagonisms, the French and British know and understand each other better today than at any other time in their modern histories and all these developments are fully explored in Philip Bell's engrossing and often amusing, account.