Tube Trains to France.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10871, 15 April 1929, Page 3

Tube Trains to France.

CITY MAN’S CHANC'K TO WAKE

UP IN PARIS

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Advantage's that would follow tlic construction of a Channel tunnel linking England with France were outlined by a Southern Railway expert. in a paper read to railway students at the London School of Economics, Mr. F. A. Brant, who is head of the Continental .Department of the Southern Railway, declared- that with two tubes under the Channel : There could he electric trains at ten-mi mile intervals, day and night. The business man eonld leave London at 8 a.in., give lour or live, hours hi Paris, and he hack in London before midnight. Pullman ears on the trains would be fitted with wireless telephones, so that appointments might lie made on the way. if the business man preferred a night journey he would lie able to into <1 isieepino; bCTtli sit- Ijoikioh and wake up in Paris or Brussels.

MIGHT NOT PAY AT FIRST. There would he a tremendous saving of time in the transport oi merchandise. Motorists would he eared tor 'by the provision of motor-car trains in which the cars would be earned thorugh the tunnel in “a short half hour.” “f jtm not prepared to sav that the Channel Tunnel would he a paying proposition to begin with. ’ added Me Brant, “but the immense value to- the' country of such an undertaking by bringing (O’er thousands ol visitors who would never come otherwise would justify any linaiieial support on j.he |iart ol the Government. It, could be a large shareholder as in the ease of the Suez Canal.” Mr. Brant ridiculed the idea that railways would be superseded by aircraft in the next 20 years. The railways would hold their own lor many more years.