PLANS OF CONSTRUCTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1907, Page 7

PLANS OF CONSTRUCTION.

The proposition which will be laid before Parliament next session is to construct two parallel tunnels, 20ft apart, through the grey chalk, and at no place less than one hundred feet below the bed of tho Channel. From Dover the tunnels would dip slightly for a distance of seyeu miles, rising again gradually until mid-Channel Was reached at a distance of twelve miles from the English coaet, At this point the English section would end, and the grey chalk pathway would gradually dip and ascend again to the French coast. In mid-Channel thero would be one hundred and fifty feet of chalk between the tunnel and the bed of the »ea. A preliminary tunnel would be cut for the removal of the water which might find its way into the workings. Thus there would be three tunnels. The length of the tunnel would be a little over twenty miles. At either end considerable curves would be necessary to allow for the gradient oi one in fiftyfive, up which the electric trains would be hauled from the depths of the Channel Recent alterations of the plans on the French side would effect a saving of six miles in the distance as originally estimated. In the Bill whioh is to be submitted to Parliament next session ample provision is made for tho destruction of the tunnel in case of waT, nt tho will of the military authorities at Dover.