Channel Tunnel Terminal - N Gauge Display

[Luke Piewalker]

I'm sure I remember reading somehwere that the trains on the exhibition layout were doing 21 actual miles a day or something ridiculous like that.

[Graham]

did they ever send this out to other exhibitions, I have a vague memory of seeing this at a show in Bletchley in the very early 90's on one of my trips back to the UK.

[Bealman]

Looks like Peco Code 80 to me!

[njee20]

Did code 55 exist in the late 80s?

[Bealman]

No, otherwise I would have started my layout with it.

I think that flexible lengths had been introduced, but no pointwork existed.

Let's not forget that Code 55 is Code 80 anyway!!

[ntpntpntp]

did they ever send this out to other exhibitions, I have a vague memory of seeing this at a show in Bletchley in the very early 90's on one of my trips back to the UK.

No, way too large for that!  It was a permanent layout at the exhibition centre.

[GrahamB]

Ah memories!

I worked on the Channel Tunnel construction project from November '88 until a year after it opened. The Exhibition Centre and the viewing gallery was required by the Government to educate and inform. Although they could charge to go into the Exhibition Centre, the viewing platform was free.

If I remember correctly there were two guys working full time keeping it all running.

Nice to see it wasn't scrapped.

At the end of the project a Tunnel Boring Machine (Well, the business end) was placed next to the Exhibition Centre with a notice offering it for sale as "One owner, low mileage."