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MEGASTRUCTURES
Wednesday 21 April at 9:00PM
National Geographic Channel
Britain's New Railway
Take a look at High Speed One, historically one of the UK's biggest and most expensive engineering projects.
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We focus on modern-day miracles of construction. Superhuman feats of modern engineering from around the world.

Take a ride on Britain's New Railway with the team behind one of the largest engineering projects in UK history: High Speed One, the audacious £7 billion bid to complete a high-speed train link between London and Paris. Enabling the Eurostar to steam past at a staggering 300kph, the 12-year project saw 10,000 workers construct 150 bridges and more than 20 km of tunnels, and transformed St. Pancras station into a stunning international destination.

Find out how they did it, and how their work unearthed some unexpected surprises - including an elephant at Ebbsfleet, and the maca...
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