BBC News - The Queen opening the Channel Tunnel - May 1994

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BBC1 News coverage of the opening of the Channel Tunnel recorded on 19th May 1994. The Queen travels to Calais on a Eurostar passenger train from London Waterloo and after a short opening ceremony, returns with President Mitterand in her Rolls Royce on a vehicle shuttle. I believe the Channel Tunnel opened for service trains later in 1994.

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  • If it weren't for Britain driving on the left, do you think they would have built bridge or car tunnel rather than a train tunnel?

  • @kernals12 I think a road bridge and/or a tunnel were considered when the cross Channel link was first talked about but were dropped as a rail tunnel worked out to be the cheapest and the easiest to build

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  • The French surrendered just to be safe

  • A wonderful piece of Engineering damned with faint praise by television journalists who have never done anything more challenging than bullshitting into a microphone!

  • 20 billlon dollers

  • The Queen looks very well dressed. Not to mention, I like her rolls royce.

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