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Tunnel trouble

Published on
November 18, 1994
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Civil engineering departments rushed for this month's Tunnels and Tunnelling magazine, published the day after the Heathrow tunnel collapse. Sadly, its printing deadlines meant that the disaster was not mentioned. Instead its front-page feature was about an amazing new Austrian tunnelling technique being used for the first time on London clay.

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