3-028-138 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Route of the proposed Channel Railway Ferry, 1870. Map showing '...the proposed harbours at Dover and Andrecelles [sic]...a point...south of Cape Grisnez and north of Ambleteuse, was selected...Connected with the harbour on the French coast will be a short railway...to run up to the Northern (of France) Railway, so as to give continuous communication to France and to Germany...Harbours with proper shelter and with sufficient depth of water to afford ingress and egress at all times (irrespective of weather and tide) being provided, it is comparatively easy to design vessels of such a size and form as to perform the voyage in about one hour, and with scarcely any appreciable pitching and rolling in any state of the weather. The vessels..will be luxuriously fitted up...with every convenience for refreshment or reading, and with private and ladies' cabins..These conditions will give to passengers, especially to invalids and families, at a trifling additional cost, the great comfort of being able to retain their seats in a railway carriage from London to Paris and other places, without change or disturbance; but when crossing the Channel passengers will have the option of using the saloons, and partaking of refreshment without losing their seats'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.