CHANNEL TUNNEL
Revival of Campaign LINKING DOVER AND CALAIS IN.Z.P. A.—Copyright). (Roc. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. British and French engineers and Parliamentarians met. in London to-day to -revive the campaign for a tunnel linking Dover and Calais. The estimated cost is between £50,000,000 and £60,000,000. Christopher Shawcross led the British delegation. Parliamentarians agreed to urge their Governments to consider linking the project with plans promoting a closer union of the two countries and of Western Europe. The engineers declared that there would be fewer technical difficulties now than in 1930, when the British Government committee reported that the project was feasible. Work on the Channel tunnel actually began in 1875, but was suspended a few years later.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 133, 17 March 1948, Page 3
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