BOOKS | BTS - 50 YEARS


TUNNELLING TALES


A celebratory tome of tunnelling life and the many UK and international projects built along the way is available from the BTS, as ‘Tunnelling Tales, Fifty years of the British Tunnelling Society’. The major book has pulled so much together and is reviewed here by Paul Perry, Technical Engineering Director with Aecom


‘Tunnelling Tales, Fifty years of the British Tunnelling Society’ was published recently and in the Foreword it explains the challenges that the Covid pandemic gave to getting this book to press. That advantage that Covid gave was that allowed a plethora of contributions from engineers, technicians, miners, site agents, plant operators, and many others, to contribute stories set up by their day jobs in tunnelling. I must declare that my meagre contribution is there, and I was delighted when I was asked to review the work in its entirety. And it is an entirety of all 816 pages of it, but a great read nevertheless.


Above: Front cover of the book IMAGES COURTESY OF BTS


42 | January 2025


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