Liberal Visions and Boring Machines: The Early History of the Channel Tunnel – The Public Domain Review

How the spirit of Brexit scuppered the dream of a Victorian chunnel.

In 1851, a telegraph wire linked London and Paris directly. Might it be possible for a railway to follow? Many engineers believed it was: they proposed a tunnel, joining the roads and railways of Britain to those of mainland Europe.

Liberal Visions and Boring Machines: The Early History of the Channel Tunnel – The Public Domain Review

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