64 The Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel

In 1858, a French engineer, Aimé Thomé de Gamond,

arrived in England with a plan for a twenty-one-mile tunnel under the English Channel.

He said that it would be possible to build a platform in the centre of the Channel.

This platform would serve as a port and a railway station.

The tunnel would be well-ventilated if tall chimneys were built above sea level.