In 1858, a French Aime Thome de Gamond, arrived in England with a plan for a tunnel under the English Channel. He said that it would be to build a in the centre of the Channel. This would serve as a port and a railway station. The tunnel would be if tall were built above sea level. In 1860, a better plan was put forward by an William Low. He that a double should be built. This would solve the problem of for if a train entered this tunnel, it would draw in fresh air behind it. years later a tunnel was begun. If, at the time, the British had not feared invasion, it would have been completed. The world had to wait almost another 100 years for the Channel Tunnel. It was opened on March 7,1994, finally Britain to the