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They posted an engineer (and a film crew[1]) to stand on the relevant platform at Tottenham Court Road while the TBM was boring through, to watch for anything going wrong. That's trust :)

1. For this documentary. The title hasn't aged well... : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ry6fy

I wonder if the Bond villain is responsible for the late opening of the eponymous Station?

It's more, is that going to hold for a hundred years? I mean it's just ... clay under London.

Then again what do I know. I look up at Jumbo Jets flying past and think, "no way can that stay up there"

If we turn out to live in the Matrix and heavier than air flight is done with a continuous loop in a Perl script, I will not be surprised.

Not quite sure what your problem is, the tunneling was dicey but once it's done, it essentially becomes a concrete pipe.

make the project engineers who signed the plans stand there.