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The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46 km (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
Altogether, the port infrastructure projects had an estimated cost of around two billion dollars. [16] Prior to 2008, the project had been estimated at a total cost of $3.1 billion USD, [17] however the revised project has an estimated cost of US$1 billion (The difference in estimates partially due to differences in previous tunnel designs). [18]
Eurostar train on High Speed 1 near Sellindge. High Speed 1, formerly known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a 108 km-long (67 mi) British high-speed rail line that connects London with the Channel Tunnel. [57] [58] It opened in two stages.
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Getlink hosts, but does not operate, passenger train services through the Channel Tunnel. As of 2020 [update] , Eurostar is the only passenger train operator that uses the tunnel, offering services that connect the United Kingdom with France, Belgium & The Netherlands.
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Travelling through a tunnel is significantly quicker than travelling using a ferry link, shown by the times for travelling through the Channel Tunnel (75–90 minutes for Ferry [4] and 21 minutes on the Eurostar). Ferries offer much lower frequency and capacity [citation needed] and travel
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