TUNNEL BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1180, 16 September 1885, Page 4

TUNNEL BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.

The scheme for connecting Ireland and Scotland by a tunnel from Portpatriek to Donaghadee has now (says a 'London correspondent) taken a definite form. A company has been formed for the purpose of promoting the scheme, and it is said that the total cost o£ tt© tunnel -will not eXC^d 815 millions. A scheme " which would extinguish St. G-eorge's Channel would be cheap at the money, and the Government might well give asssistance to a measure which would do as much to unite the two countries as any half-dozen legislative projects. Mr James Brunless the well-known engineer, states that the work may be made within reasonable limits of time and cost, and a boring 1000 ft. deep is> to be made at each end of the proposed tunnel, in order to discover the charactor of the formation through which the tunnel would pass. The greatest depth of the channel is 780 ft. The effect of the tunnel would be to bring Belfast within 390 miles of London, Molville within 450, and Dublin within 478. The distance between London and Dublin by Holyhead is, of course, shorter; but there being no channel passage the journey could be accomplished by the tunnel in considerably less time than by the Holyhead route. By the tunnel G-lasgow would be brought within 121 miles of Belfast. Probably, also, the whole o£ the Atlantic steamexs, instead of going round by the south of Ireland, and calling at Queenstown, would go by the north, and land mails and passengers at Molville.

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