CHANNEL TUNNEL
SCHEME TO BE REVIVED RESOLUTION IN FRENCH CHAMBER IBv Air Mail-Special Correspondent! LONDON, 15th April. A tunnel under the English Channel, between Britain and France, was first proposed more than 100 years ago. Many times plans have been approved and then rejected. Now at last the scheme may be put into practice. In June the Foreign Affairs Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies will consider a resolution proposing the construction of two fullsized railway tunnels and a road tunnel. The rail tunnels would be 32 miles long including 20 miles under the water. The scheme would take five years to complete and would cost £22,000,000. First a pilot tunnel would have to be built.
Public opinion in France supports the scheme and if, as expected, the Chamber passes the resolution, the resolution, the French Government will probably ask the British Government’s approval and help..
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 8
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