UNDER THE CHANNEL
-AN ENGINEER’S SCHEME. RAILWAY THROUGH A TUNNEL. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 6. An engineer has worked out a schema for a seven feet gauge electric railway linking up Loudon with Paris via a Channel tunnel. It would follow an entirely new route. It would enter the Channel near Dover, and emerge at Wimereux. The Channel tunnel, including II miles of approaches, would be 44 miles. Trains weighing 550 tone,' drawn by electric locomotives, would attain a maximum speed of 120 miles per hour, a. . an average of .92. They would complete the 253 miles journey in 165 min. The estimated cost is £190,000,000. —Australian Press Association—United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 13
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114UNDER THE CHANNEL Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 13
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