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Old 08-29-2012, 08:37 PM
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Default What happened to the Eurotunnel

Aka The Chunnel. The under channel tunnel from Calais to the Shakespeare cliff.

Was it completed? Was it destroyed?
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According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel, it was opened on 6 May 1994 (tunnel) and 14 November 1994 (passenger service).

I remember reading in some WW III novel that the Soviets use a conventional bomb inside it, effectively closing it.

Not that it matters if the French don't enter the Twilight war, they keep NATO forces from using it.
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There has been a thread on this topic before. As I recall, the consensus was that the French closed their end of the Chunnel and then it flooded anyway as power was lost to the pumps.
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The primary controls are on the British side at Folkstone with the backup in Calais.

So no unofficial traffic or smugglers then?
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So no unofficial traffic or smugglers then?
Maybe. How many SCUBA tanks can they take with them?
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Canon implies in the UK Survival Guide that it is intact as it talks about rabies infected animals coming through.

My guess is that in "reality" it floods - worrying how I phrased that isn't it...
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I was thinking it was flooded and a big hoo hah made about that.

Then pumped out. There are three tunnels and the service tunnel is like a long road.
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Canon implies in the UK Survival Guide that it is intact as it talks about rabies infected animals coming through.
It's possible they (the French most likely apparently) could have shoved a bunch of large boulders into the tunnel to block it off. It would be impassable to vehicles or humans, but rats and several other smaller animals can squeeze through a much smaller gap in the rocks.

So, with that, you have a tunnel that is effectively blocked for human purposes, but still allows for the rabid animals from the UK Guide.
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Dover gets a Nuclear device in November 1997 and the Survivors guide describes it as 'Heavily damaged'. So I am guessing that the Chunnel was destroyed. Survivors Guide also states that it was incomplete by 1995 and that the road transport side had yet to be finished.
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It's probably just screwy memory, but I seem to remember something about the Chunnel getting destroyed near its center by a nuclear torpedo or depth charge; who destroyed it was unknown.

As an aside to that, who would want to deliver a nuclear torpedo or depth charge? It seems like you'd be destroyed by overpressure from your own device...well, maybe it you put it on a timer...never mind.
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It's possible they (the French most likely apparently) could have shoved a bunch of large boulders into the tunnel to block it off. It would be impassable to vehicles or humans, but rats and several other smaller animals can squeeze through a much smaller gap in the rocks.

So, with that, you have a tunnel that is effectively blocked for human purposes, but still allows for the rabid animals from the UK Guide.
If the Chunnel was blocked to all human traffic why would anyone bother to pump the water out? And it is (IMHO) highly likely that at some stage during the Twilight War that power to the pumps was lost for some period of time. No pumps = flooded Chunnel.
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The entrance is actually a reasonable distance from Dover just outside Folkstone (worth noting there are two army barracks VERY near - St Martin's Plain and Sir John Moore).
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Maybe. How many SCUBA tanks can they take with them?
That is a thought actually.

Who would be watching a flooded tunnel? No currents to sweep away men and equipment. Not going to be seen emerging onto the shore.

Some of the dive scooters carry supplemental tanks. Though the chunnel is large enough for some of the small scientific submarines.
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