The Channel Tunnel in 1883

‘I am nearly certain that this tunnel will be made sooner or later,’ declared an expert of the 1880s. 

Thomé de Gamond's plan of 1856 for a cross-Channel link, with a port/airshaft on the Varne sandbank mid-ChannelOn April 24th, 1883, the first witness was called and examined before a Joint Select Committee of both Houses of Parliament set up to report ‘on the expediency of a Channel Tunnel’.

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