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Model Gallery
Models built for the 'Tunnels' Secretary's Challenge
The Challenge:
This Challenge celebrates the fact that 2018 was designated 'The Year of Engineering' by the UK government. The London Transport Museum marked it with two new exhibitions that took visitors behind the scenes to discover how engineers shape the world around us - 'Digging Deeper' and 'The Secret Life of a Megaproject' (i.e. Crossrail, which, for our foreign members who may not know, is a new mainline railway line, a lot of which is in tunnels under the centre of London). The challenge, therefore, is to build a model which has something to do with tunnels.
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Built by Chris Fry
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Built by Chris Warrell
This model was based on a photo of Phyllis, the (Tunnel Boring Machine) TBM for the Royal Oak to Farringdon tunnel (Drive X): Crossrail's first pair of tunnelling machines, along with Ada. They were delivered to Westbourne Park, just west of Paddingto...
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Built by Brian Elvidge
Crossrail is the largest engineering project in Europe, creating a line from Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east to Reading and Heathrow in the west. The model is built using flanged rings, between which are 12½" strips covered by flexible pla...
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Built by Peter Clay
A gym horse, underneath which was concealed the escape tunnel entrance in The Great Escape .
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Built by John Clifton
With working steering, 3 speed forward and reverse gearbox, and opening doors.
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Built by John Gay
This 900 ton tunnelling machine was used to bore the 16 mile Thames Tideway Tunnel 'Super Sewer', the deepest tunnel ever to be dug under London, which runs from West to East London.
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Built by Brian Leach
The false-perspective Time Tunnel from the 1966 American science-fiction TV series written by Irwin Allen.
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Built by Eric Smith
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Built by Richard Marsden
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Built by Guy Loveridge
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