Submarine Continental Railway Co
From Graces Guide
1882 The Submarine Continental Railway Company was incorporated to purchase certain works belonging to the South Eastern Railway, consisting of two shafts, sunk on the foreshore, near Abbot's Cliff and Shakespeare Cliff, in the lower beds of the chalk, and a mile or thereabouts of headings driven in the lowest beds of the same formation as initial attempts at constructing a Channel Tunnel.[1]
1883 Work on the tunnel was stopped by order of the Board of Trade.
1886 The Submarine Continental Railway Company acquired the "rights and properties" of the Channel Tunnel Co, the name of that company being assumed in 1887. [2]
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