Manual Shield Tunnelling
In early shield tunnelling, the shield functioned as a way to protect labourers who performed the digging, and moved the shield forward, progressively replacing it with pre-built sections of tunnel wall. The early deep tunnels for the London Underground were built in this way. The shield divided the workface into overlapping portions that each worker could excavate.
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