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Channel Tunnel project cancelled 20th January 1975 On the day the button was to be

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Channel Tunnel project cancelled 20th January 1975 On the day the button was to be

Channel Tunnel project cancelled 20th January 1975
On the day the button was to be pushed to start the giant tunnelling machine on its way under the English Channel, the workmen were standing around in the tunnel not knowing what was going to happen now the Channel Tunnel has been axed by the Labour government.
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that the cancellation citing financial reasons, in particular due to the oil crisis, the doubling of cost estimates and the uncertainty about EEC membership due to forthcoming referendum later in the year.
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