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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
THE HUMBER TUNNEL. 
At a recent meeting of Engineering students at the Leeds 
University, Professor P. F. Kendall dealt with the subject 
of tunnel construction under the Humber. He said this 
scheme would probably be completed before the Channel 
tunnel. He conceived it to be a vital necessity for Hull. 
The dotted lines crossing the river represent Professor Kendall's alternative schemes for 
tunnelling the Humber. Both from a geological standpoint and for railway facilities the 
route from South Ferriby to North Ferriby is the better one. The tunnel is necessary if 
Hull is to serve the new Doncaster coalfields. The network near Barnetby indicates by- 
full lines the existing railways — the Great Central, the Trent, Ancholnte and Grimsby line, 
and the Market Rasen branch — and it would be necessary to link up Horkstow with 
Barnetby Junction. New lines are indicated by broken lines. 
The exploitation of the Yorkshire coalfield eastward had 
shifted the industrial focus completely, and if Hull was to 
maintain its position as a port it must get hold of the great 
traffic from the southern part of Yorkshire around Doncaster. 
These new pits were equipped to raise immense quantities of 
coal, and great traffic was, therefore, arising south of the 
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