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Channel Tunnel Act 1987

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In the district of Dover (town of Dover and parishes of Capel-le-Ferne and Hougham Without) and the district of Shepway (town of Folkestone and parishes of Hawkinge, Newington and Saltwood), in the county of Kent—

  • Work No. 1—A railway (3225 metres in length), including a viaduct, commencing by a junction with Work No. 30 at a point 565 metres east of the northern end of the existing bridge carrying the B2065 over the railway between Ashford and Folkestone West, passing by means of the viaduct over the M20 at a point 155 metres north-west of the bridge carrying the bridleway from the A20 at Stone Farm, Newington, to Dibgate Camp and then over the A20 (Work No. 9A), continuing in an easterly direction and terminating at a point 85 metres west of a point on the road known as Castle Hill 170 metres north of its junction with the Castle Hill Roundabout:

  • Work No. 2—A railway (5862 metres in length), commencing by a junction with Work No. 1 at its termination, diverging in a south-westerly direction from that work, then turning in a north-westerly direction to pass under that work in tunnel, then turning in a northerly and then in an easterly direction and terminating by a junction with Work No. 1 at its said termination:

  • Work No. 3—A railway (1146 metres in length), commencing by a junction with Work No. 1 at its termination, passing under Castle Hill and terminating below a point 240 metres west of a point on Canterbury Road 620 metres from its junction with Churchill Avenue:

  • Work No. 4—A railway (8400 metres in length), commencing by a junction with Work No. 3 at its termination, passing in a north-easterly direction under Sugarloaf Hill, then in an easterly and then in a south-easterly direction and terminating below a point on the line of the level of mean high water springs below Shakespeare Cliff 580 metres east of the western portal of the Shakespeare Tunnel of the Railways Board:

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