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« on: November 17, 2015, 19:40:40 »
There was a short segment in the above programme on the work to lower the track to allow for electrification. I think it was towards the end of the programme - in fact I believe it was the last topic - just after a man dressed as a bird table and an attempt to get a stag to rut with a fake deer. This was on the programme on 17/11/2015

There were a couple of sequences of HSTs▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) entering the tunnel but me thinks -given the livery of one set was similar to the one shown below - one of the clips may have been quite old Smiley

http://www.penmorfa.com/Archive/eighteen.htm

Note this link is only intended to show the livery and is nothing to do with Box Tunnel!

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It's on iPlayer at the link below at about 24:00 in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06p3r67/the-one-show-17112015
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2015, 14:25:38 »
I saw something on it last night too, I had forgotten that there was a tunnel within a tunnel!
It was good to see that they were applying principles learned with Cross-rail (ie tunnel lining monitoring) with these old structures built 175 years ago.
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