On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:48:19 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:10:51 +0100, Martin
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:14 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:41:51 -0800, Gregory Morrow
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hatunen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:48:25 -0800, Furze Platt
>>>
>>>>> But I would still think the British had a considerably more
>>>>> difficult job of decision making than the French, who already had
>>>>> track for their TGV that could be used. Not to mention, of
>>>>> course, that the UK does not have the same sort of authoritarian
>>>>> government that the French do.
>>>>
>>>>The Brits were concerned about possible military uses of the
>>>>chunnel...
>>>
>>>This isn't about the tunnel per se, since it was built before the
>>>UK finally found a route for the high speed connection to London.
>>>Before that the impressively sleek Eurostar, which looks like
>>>it's doing 150mph when it's standing still, had to creep along on
>>>regular rails.
>>
>>Greg refers to the Victorian tunnel.
>
>Upon re-reading it appears you are right. But I believe the old
>bugaboo of invaion-by-tunnel did come up when the Eurotunnel was
>first proposed.
It came up again in a BBC program about the tunnel recently. I didn't realise
that the beginnings of the Victorian tunnel still existed and were accessible.
--
Martin
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