Аннотация
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!
by Harry Harrison
BOOK THE FIRST
THE LINK BETWEEN THE LANDS BEGUN
I. A HURRIED MESSAGE AND A DANGEROUS MOMENT
Leaving Paddington Station the Flying Cornishman seemed little different from any other train. Admittedly the appointments were cleaner and newer and there was a certain opulence to the gold tassels that fringed the seat cushions in the first-class carriage, but these were just a matter of superficial decoration. The differences that made this train unique in England, which was the same as saying unique in the entire world, were not yet apparent as the great golden engine nosed its way over the maze of tracks and switches of the station yards, then out through the tunnels and cuttings. Here the roadbed was ordinary and used by all trains alike.
Only when the hulking locomotive and its trailing cylinder of closely joined coaches had dived deep under the Thames and emerged in Surrey did the real diff...
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