This season of Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections first aired on 08-09-2008.

Richard Hammond explores some of the biggest and most prominent structures and discusses how these engineering marvels were conceptualised ... the Alps into the world's longest underground railway ...

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5/6 The inspiration behind the Millau Viaduct, France, the tallest road bridge in the world.