LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Channel Tunnel: Great Britain
built 656 days ago
There were three trains in the other running tunnel travelling from Britain to France, all of which were affected by the fire in one way or another. Two trains were slightly affected by smoke as they passed through on their way to France, and one was instructed to stop in the tunnel near to the site of the fire to be used as a rescue train. It stayed there for slightly less than an hour before those evacuated from the HGV shuttle were loaded onto it.
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The volume of rubble removed from the tunnel is three times greater than that of the Cheops Pyramid in Egypt. And it has increased the size of Britain by 90 acres. Equivalent to 68 football fields, this area has been made into a park.
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In 1973, Britain finally joined France in the Common Market AND both governments agreed to have another go at building a tunnel. But in 1975, construction was again abandoned because the British prime minister (Harold Wilson) had to look for economies in a financial crisis caused by dramatically rising world oil prices.
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The hundreds of illegal immigrants housed in the shelter, a cavernous, hangar-like former factory in the middle of potato fields have a common goal: getting through the tunnel that is just down the road from here. Some are seeking asylum but many just hope to find work once in Britain, while others will use it as a stopping point until they can reach the United States or Canada.
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The intensity of these movements, particularly the last extensional phase, is not the same everywhere, and it should be noted that the tunnel route is situated to the north and just outside of the most highly tectonised zone. This explains why the route actually intersects only a few major faults (with throws of a few metres) on the French side, while on the UK side no fault with a throw greater than 1m was recorded during tunnelling.
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