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category:
  - "[[Note]]"
type:
topic:
  - "[[Channel Tunnel]]"
title: Channel Tunnel photo and a Fossil
created: 2026-01-29T18:52:03
date: 1990-11-19
---
Some photos form the internet. That's [[dad|dad]] down at the front, probably the only one with his helmet still on! The two guy's on the right are [[Peter Chapman|Peter Chapman]], and [[Peter Birmingham|Peter Birmingham]].

I've seen a number of sources reference these photos as being from the [[Channel Tunnel Uplink Day|uplink day]], but it can't be, the machine in the photo is >7m in diameter and too large to be the service tunnel [[TBM|TBM]].

From doing some research I think the photographer is [[David Giles|David Giles]]

![[Pasted image 20260129190200.png]]
"Jubilant tunnel workers after the breakthrough under the Channel in1990" [Source](https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/the-wonder-of-the-channel-tunnel-205294/)

![[Pasted image 20260129195209.png]]
Same, but from another angle

![[https___www.shutterstock.com_editorial_image-editorial_M2T9kd4eN8T8k3z4ODAxNw==_scene-underground-construction-workers-channel-tunnel-boring-1500w-1970771a.jpg]]

![[channel-tunnel-complete-1500w-178847a.jpg]]

![[murphy's-marauders-workers-who-operated-channel-tunnel-1500w-1970839a.jpg]]

![[download.jpg]]

![[tunnelling-teams-from-britain-and-france-meet-and-create-the-first-G4B7T4.jpg]]

![[8028c571-2903-3888-a4f9-7c073cd74bc3.jpg]]
and another, but must have been before/after