CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME.
CONSIDERED TENABLE. Received October 26, 8.4 a.m. PARIS, October 25. M. Sartraux, chief engineer of the Northern Railway of France, explained to a party of British merchants visiting France his channel tunnel scheme. The scheme provides for two tunnels through the chalk, fitty feet apart. The distance to be traversed will be thirtyfour miles, owing to bends in the chalk beds. The party consider the scheme tenable. (Tne very friendly relations existing of late bstween Britain and France has caused revived interest in the project of linking the two nations by a railway beneath the Cnannel. The Paris Chamber of Commerce adopted a report in favour Of the enterprise two years ago, the scheme under consideration being estimated to cost Leading men in both countries have since expressed themselves in favour of the project, and French engineers have been studying the works on their side of the channel).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8272, 27 October 1906, Page 5
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151CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8272, 27 October 1906, Page 5
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