In depth

Building Britain's first high speed line

By 1999-05-01T10:00:00

Section 1 only impinges on the urban fabric at Ashford, but Section 2 penetrates to the heart of London where driving 36 km of single-track bored tunnel through some difficult ground beneath existing railways and other structures presents a major engineering challenge

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