The channel tunnel which joins Britain to mainland Europe for the first time, was officially opened in 1994, but the history of the Chunnel goes back nearly 200 hundred years.At the beginning of the nineteenth century a British politician went to Fance to discuss closer trade links between the two countries. The idea of a tunnel was mentioned in talks with Napoleon. A French engineer prepared plans for a tunnel in two sections, meeting at anIn 1875 a tunnel committee was formed and a convention was signed the British channel company bought land near dove and started digging. There were still argument whether there should be tunnel. The British were against the idea saying that once the tunnel was completed Britain would no longer be an island. Public opinion was increasingly hostile andIn the early twentieth century the idea was considered again but was soon forgotten when the First World War began. Throughout the twenties and thirties the idea was always rejected because of security and fin
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