RMG6RJP8–A Eurotunnel engineer inspecting a Whitaker tunnelling boring machine, which was unearthed at Hythe, Kent. The machine was used in a project in 1922-23 to dig an exploratory tunnel, which was later abandoned that year and has remained in the tunnel ever since until Eurotunnel excavated it.
RMG6RJP9–Cheering Channel Tunnel construction workers celebrated a major breakthrough when an 800 tonne tunnel boring machine emerged at Holywell, near the Folkestone terminal site, after a 13-month, five-mile drive from the tunnel construction site at Shakespeare Cliff, near Dover.