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Old 16-04-2023, 14:51   #5046
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
Believe it or not, they tried …

https://www.subbrit.org.uk/sites/cha...-1880-attempt/

Fear of it being used by a foreign invader eventually put a stop to it. Plus ca change.

In all seriousness though, the willingness to even try to build something so challenging with the technology available to them in the latter 19th century does rather illustrate my point. The Orient Express was there to get busy people from A to B, it was not a gin palace on rails. The Eurostar connection is in that sense truer to the spirit of the original, even if it doesn’t use vintage rolling stock to get you to where the Orient Express always originally terminated, i.e. France, not London.
I'm pleased we got there in the end with the Channel Tunnel. They certainly did amazing construction work in the past despite not having today's technology.

Interestingly, back in 1888 Orient Express trains were going from London, so it's not a recent invention. This poster on Wiki even suggests no passports were checked once you were on the Continent!
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