CHANNEL TUNNEL PLAN REVIVED
(Rec. 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 16. British and French engineers and Parliamentarians met in London today to revive the campaign for a tunnel linking Dover and Calais. The estimated cost is between £50,000,000 and £60,000,000. Mr Christopher Shawcross, Labour M.P., led the British delegation. The Parliamentarians agreed to urge their Governments to consider linking the project with the plans for promoting closer union of the two countries and of Western Europe. The engineers declared there would be fewer technical difficulties now than in 1930, when a 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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