The Channel Tunnel

Michael Bonavia on the long-delayed link between Britain and the Continent.

Thomé de Gamond's plan of 1856 for a cross-Channel link, with a port/airshaft on the Varne sandbank mid-Channel'C’est une des grandes choses que nous devrions faire ensemble', Napoleon is said to have remarked to the British ambassador during the short-lived Peace of Amiens.

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