Tunnel vision
The Guardian: May 27, 2005
It's been seven years in construction, 8,000 people have worked on it and the machines digging it are a monster 100 metres long.
But despite the fact that it is one of the biggest engineering projects in the UK, and the country's first new train line in a century, few of us know the £5.2bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link is even there. Jonathan Glancey walks the rails and asks, will this be the project that restores our belief that Britain can build a railway? Check out the superb picture gallery.