Mission 7 - English Channel | European Campaign Transport Fever Guide
Last update: 02 December 2016
Your final task is to build a railway tunnel under the English channel, connecting the island with the European mainland.
Make preparations. You have to establish two production chains. While making planks is no rocket science (the English have everything necessary on their side), production of steel may cause some trouble. Create harbors on both sides of the channel. Use trucks to move coal from the mines to the harbor, where a ship will take over, and the third link of this will eventually carry steel (1). In the meantime, you'll have the opportunity to collect a medal - explore the bottom of the sea. This challenge can be completed only before you finish this part of the mission. The easiest way would be to hold off the establishing of the plank production chain, buy the necessary ship and stop it where it needs to be. Then, you can sell the ship and establish the required chain.
If you'd like to earn some money fast, create a railway connection between Dunkirk and Boulogne-sur-Mer (including city lines in both cities). One fast train hauling 3-4 cars should yield some decent profit (2).
Drill the tunnel. This is your main mission objective. You'll have to deliver 1000 units of machines to the specified destinations. Build an additional harbor and truck connections to bring planks to France. The same connection can be used to send back machines via ship to England. Machine factory will divide its production equally if you establish the right transport connections. Still, the destination point in France is located much closer than the one in England, and so the quota there will be filled much earlier. You'll have to take that into consideration if you're in for the Handshake medal. Once one side of the tunnel is almost complete, hold the connection a moment before they load out the cargo and wait for the other side to reach the same stage, when you can restore the connection. After the drilling is done, change the machine transport destination point into industrial districts of nearby cities.
In the meantime, you'll be given an optional objective/medal to collect - upgrade drilling machines. Assuming you deliver 10 units of machines to Hastings, the required amount of goods will drop from 1000 to 900. Now you just have to establish an additional connection between the harbor station and the city, then demolish it. The system will share the goods equally, so that no vehicle is kept waiting.
Tunnel utilization. Now, you'll have to transport 1000 passengers and 1000 units of any goods. The tunnel has signals and a twin track, making it easy to integrate it with your existing railway network and add some transport lines. You can close the naval and truck connections, replacing them with a train carrying coal and planks. Create some additional connections between the cities and wait for the objective to be completed.