Channel Tunnel rail link postponed
- Title
- Channel Tunnel rail link postponed
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop; Music
- TX Date
- 5 Nov 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:04
- Description
- Nigel Dearing reports from Trafalgar Square on the demonstration in protest at the delay over the high speed rail link with the Channel Tunnel as the government has refused to subsidise an expensive but environmentally friendly tunnel under London. Includes Maidstone MP Andrew Rowe speaking in support of a tunnel; Dulwich MP, Gerry Bowden on the uncertainty for residents; criticism from protesters over BR’s handling of the affair. With bagpipes and singing.
- Contributors
- Gerald Bowden; Nigel Dearing; Andrew Rowe
- Keywords
- London; British Rail; Public finance; Railways; Demonstrations; Channel tunnels; Railway construction; Protest songs
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LBC/IRN, "Channel Tunnel rail link postponed". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0012000483016 (Accessed 09 Jul 2025)