Long before the Channel Tunnel, whole trains crossed La Manche. But on ships. - Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) October 14, 2018
Though the London to Paris leg took a not insignificant 11 hours to complete, for the first time in history, you could get on a train in England, and only get off it again on the continent. If you wanted, you could stay onboard at Paris, and continue on to Brussels. It was the Eurostar, long before Eurostar existed. With rhetoric similar to that used with the opening of the Channel Tunnel decades later, at the opening ceremony, the French ambassador André Charles Corbin hailed "a link to strengthen the bonds between two great nations."
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