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In 1858 a French , Aimé Thomé de Gamond, in England with a for a twenty-one mile across the English Channel. said that it would possible to build a in the centre of Channel. This platform would as a port and railway station. The tunnel be well-ventilated if tall were built above sea-level. 1860 a better plan put forward by an , William Low. He suggested a double railway tunnel be built. This would the problem of ventilation, if a train entered tunnel, it would draw fresh air behind it. -two years later the tunnel actually begun. If, at time, the British had feared invasion, it would been completed. Recently, there again been great interest the idea of a Tunnel. If it is , it will connect Britain Europe for the first in history.

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