“Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)<\/a> presidents Douglas Oakervee and Gordon Masterton were responsible for surveying the fixed link and they claimed that an undersea tunnel would cost \u00a3209bn while a bridge would cost \u00a3335bn.<\/p>\nOctober 2020 was the launching date of the government-commissioned feasibility study and sits alongside the Union Connectivity Review (UCR) headed by Network Rail chairman Peter Hendy.<\/p>\n
According to Hendy’s statement about the feasibility report: “Cutting-edge, twenty-first-century civil engineering technology would make it possible to construct either a bridge or a tunnel between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”<\/p>\n
He also added: “A bridge crossing would be the longest span bridge built to date, while a tunnel would be the longest undersea tunnel ever built given the limited gradients on which trains can operate, the route it would need to take and the depths it would need to reach.”<\/p>\n
Additionally, this study emphasizes on building a tunnel crossing for railway use given current technology and safety considerations.<\/p>\n
“The consequence of these parameters for either a tunnel or a bridge is that they are expensive. The associated very significant works on the British and Irish sides for a railway or roads would mean that the crossing would not be operational for 30 years,” reports the study.<\/p>\n
The Beaufort\u2019s Dyke, which is a deep seabed trench between Northern Ireland and Scotland and is over 45km long, up to 3.5km wide and 300m below chart datum (approximately the lowest tide level) in its deepest areas, considers as a significant barrier to the construction of this tunnel. It may also be filled with a million tons of unexploded ordnance.<\/p>\n
In order to safely prevent the trench, a rail tunnel would have to be excavated about 400m beneath chart datum, while the faced water in this depth would have a hydrostatic pressure of 40 bars.<\/p>\n
Boosting 40km from the deepest point by the railway track will cause attaining chart datum in either direction given a maximum rail gradient of one in 100.<\/p>\n
In contrary, the Channel tunnel comprises an undersea section of 38km, with a maximum depth of 75m below sea level.<\/p>\n
The Seikan Tunnel in Japan, which is the deepest undersea rail tunnel, is 240m beneath sea level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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