Channel Tunnel rail link postponed
- Title
- Channel Tunnel rail link postponed
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 5 Nov 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:02:46
- Description
- Nigel Dearing reports on British Rail’s decision to postpone its proposal for the high speed rail link with the Channel Tunnel, after the government made it clear it would not subsidise from public funds an environmentally friendly but more expensive tunnel route under London. Includes BR Director John Welsby on the search for alternative solutions; Chris Jackson of Railway Gazette supporting BR’s decision; and Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson defending the government’s position.
- Contributors
- Cecil Parkinson; John Welsby; Chris Jackson; Nigel Dearing
- Keywords
- London; British Rail; Public finance; Railways; Environment; Channel tunnels; Railway construction; Railway tunnels
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