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PREM19/937
Transport (Fixed Channel Link (Channel Tunnel); economic considerations; discussions with French) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 207
Themes: British relations with France, Transport

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Date Value Title
79 Jul 24 Tu Major Transport: Fowler minute to MT (Channel tunnel) [declassified 2012]
79 Sep 27 Th Major Transport: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (“Channel tunnel”) [declassified 2012]
79 Nov 7 We Major Transport: MT letter to Sir Horace Cutler (cross-Channel link) [declassified 2012]
80 Feb 11 Mo Major Transport: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Channel bridge”) [declassified 2012]
80 Feb 25 Mo Major Transport: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (cross-Channel link) [declassified 2012]
80 Aug 7 Th Major Transport: Gow letter to Whitelaw (Channel tunnel) [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 5 Fr Major Transport: MT letter to Baron de Rothschild (cross-Channel link) [declassified 2012]
80 Dec 22 Mo Major Transport: Fowler minute to MT (cross-Channel link) [declassified 2012]
81 Jan 21 We Major Transport: No.10 record of conversation (call from M.Wahl of President Giscard’s office) [Whitmore denying reports circulating that MT favoured reopening the issue] [declassified 2012]
81 Aug 25 Tu Major Transport: Gow letter to Sir John Howard (“Euro-route - free enterprise road and rail Channel crossing”) [MT meeting with Ian MacGregor] [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 22 Tu Minor Transport: No.10 letter to Chapman and Dowling, Consulting Engineers (“Proposals for a Channel link”) [declassified 2012]
81 Sep 24 Th Major Transport: No.10 letter to Howell PS (Prime Minister’s meeting on the Channel tunnel) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 9 Mo Major Transport: Howell minute to MT (“Channel link”) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 13 Fr Major Transport: No.10 Private Office minute to Policy Unit (Euroroute: brief for Prime Minister’s meeting with Mr. MacGregor) [asks for comment on Channel tunnel brief] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 13 Fr Major Transport: Department of Industry briefing for MT (“Prime Minister’s meeting on the Channel tunnel”) [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 16 Mo Major Transport: Brittan minute to MT (“Channel link”) [urges cost-benefit analysis before too much progress in talks with French] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 17 Tu Major Transport: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howell, Jenkin, Ian MacGregor, Sir John Howard) [Channel tunnel/bridge] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 18 We Minor Transport: Atkins minute to Howell (Channel tunnel) [wants FCO involved in talks] [declassified 2012]
81 Nov 25 We Major Transport: Gow minute for Michael Alexander (“Channel tunnel”) [Ian McGregor wants to meet Mitterrand; MT thinks it ‘premature’] [declassified 2012]
81 Dec 2 We Major Transport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Cross-Channel link) [E(81) 121, 122 & 124] [declassified 2012]