Channel Tunnel The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns asserting that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences. These early works were encountered more than a century later during the TML project. A 1907 film, "Tunnelling the English Channel" by pioneer filmmaker Georges Méliès, depicts King Edward VII and President Armand Fallières dreaming of building a tunnel under the English Channel. In 1919, during the Paris Peace Conference, the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, repeatedly brought up the idea of a Channel tunnel as a way of reassuring France about British willingness to defend
Cycling in the Channel Tunnel cycle the 100-kilometre round-trip from Folkestone to Coquelles and back again. The journey took around five hours to complete, while wearing full overalls and needing to carry respirators. In November 1993, journalists Nick Dutton-Taylor and Damon Brown used the same Saracen bicycles as other construction workers to cycle into the tunnel for an article in "Mountain Biking UK". They were trained and accompanied by the cycling trainer Clive, but not allowed to go the full way through. On the night of 2/3 December 1994, a group of professional and semi-professional cyclists went road bicycle racing from London to Paris in