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tunnel digging for an underground railway line

deep beneath the London clay - which is ideal ground to dig tunnels through, workmen begin to excavate a new underground railway line commonly referred to as The Tube. This is P1 of 2 of a civil engineering project with a rather dry narrative - great engineering scenes and plenty of mud and hard work as the workers manipulate the concrete liner sections. The digging stops every 15 minutes or so for the liners to be installed. it looks like a process where many hands and fingers were easily caught between the segments. Hardly any workers wore any form of personal protection with hard hats more or less unknown during the 1960's. However, there was employment for thousands of men.

please note, this is a rail related engineering film.

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Added: Jul-8-2012 Occurred On: Jul-8-1962
By: thecleaner001
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Tags: concrete liners, tunnel digging,
Location: London, England, United Kingdom (UK/GB) (load item map)
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  • Great find, Cleaner, thanks!

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  • Cleaner does it again. Thanks!

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  • When men were men and werent afraid to work hard to earn a living. Gotta love mans desire to improve technology. Great post Mr. cleaner.

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    • thanks nc', glad you liked this one. The men erecting a ring of segments at 7.59-ish was a sight to see, no gloves hats or much in the way of safety equipment. I bet a few fingers were lost along the length of the tunnel! these guys certainly earned their pay.

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  • wtf is up with the accent back then?

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    • @fobfob77 Voices back then had more character than they do now, imo...

      In my opinion, the American voice back in the 60s, or before then, had a lot more 'class' than they do now... pity it's pretty much gone completely nowadays.

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  • love this, so much, thanks!!

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    • great stuff - Pt2 just going up!

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    • @thecleaner001 Perfect, just woke from a snooze, and I get to see the second half.. ThankYou!! :o)(o:

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    • @fuchajen ..hee hee hee, thanks, great stuff! I just watched it again myself and found it really interesting (if you like this sorta thing of course;)

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    • @thecleaner001 and I do!! Love seeing how amazing us humans are, those fellas worked hard! I can imagine the gruesome accidents that fed this day n ages saftey precautions... nothing like we see today with all our new age gadgets,.,.,. far far worse!!
      Thanks buddy, really appreciate these loads :o)(o:

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  • No comment I have to get on to part two !!

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  • The grass is always greener on the other side.

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  • are these concrete rings the same type as the ones in the tunnel in the US that collapsed a couple years ago?

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    • an interesting point A', it'd be worth trying to find out. (any info on which tunnels and where) these rings are interlocking and can't really collapse inwards other than by material failure which has never happened in 40+ years. they're now the liner of choice for many projects. atm there's a 6ft tunnel being built around London at about 100ft deep to house the new power supplies for the next 50 years, Thames water has also completed a massive scheme of moving water around London at a depth of More..

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    • @thecleaner001

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig_ceiling_collapse

      I'm not sure which part of the ceiling they're saying fell in, but that's the one I was referring to. After reading it, I think it was the ceiling mounted inside the outer ring, but the ring itself that failed.

      Unrelated to that story, there has been talk for years that there is a tunnel underneath Pensacola Bay, in Pensacola, Florida that connect Ft Barrancas to Ft Pickens. It has been rumored that the tunnel was built bef More..

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    • @Amusing ..thanks for the links A', most interesting. Yes, Marc Brunnel completed a tunnel under the Thames at great cost and some major major work during the mid 1800's, naturally, wiki does a good page on this;

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel

      so, it would have been possible for the tunnel under Pensacola Bay to have been built during the 1800's.

      there was always talk about an extension from the Picadilly underground line from central London out towards Heathrow Airport which som More..

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  • Interesting how they fit the non-grouted rings, clever stuff.

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