Channel Tunnel

They have been used to drill the Silvertown Tunnel, Crossrail, the Power Tunnels in north London and the Thames Tideway or super sewer as well as the Channel Tunnel.

Eurostar currently holds a monopoly on the trains through the Channel Tunnel with routes to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.

Two days before that scheduled hearing in July, Yaxley-Lennon repeated the claims to thousands of his supporters in London’s Trafalgar Square - and the following day took a Channel Tunnel train to France.

The torch will be passed in relays between 24 torch bearers in the UK on its journey to the French capital via the Channel Tunnel.

Eurotunnel, which operates freight and vehicle shuttles though the Channel Tunnel, is spending the equivalent of £70m building processing zones, where people will queue in their cars to use automatic machines.