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An underwater tunnel is a tunnel which is partly or wholly constructed under the sea or a river. They are often used where building a bridge or operating a ferry link is unviable, or to provide competition or relief for existing bridges or ferry links. [ 1 ]
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the 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.
Second longest railway tunnel until 2016. Longest underwater section, longest international tunnel (2×45 m 2 + 1×18 m 2), running between Folkestone, Kent, and Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais. Railway Single Tube Yulhyeon Tunnel: Seoul Capital Area, South Korea 50,300 m (31.255 mi) [10] 2016 [11] 107 m 2, part of the Suseo high-speed railway. Water ...
In the Faroe Islands, wild, unpredictable weather — fierce winds and rain, and thick fog that settles like a curtain — can sometimes make travel by car or ferry problematic.
The Eurotunnel Folkestone Terminal is a railway terminal built for the transport of road-going vehicles on specially constructed trains through the Channel Tunnel. The station is located in Cheriton, a northern suburb of the town of Folkestone in the county of Kent. It is the terminal for the United Kingdom.
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Mostly underwater. Will have a record depth of 390 m below sea level. A side tunnel (Kvitsøy Tunnel, 4 km) will connect Kvitsøy. Construction began on 4 January 2018. Tianshan Shengli Tunnel: China 22.1 km (13.7 mi) [37] 2025 2 Ürümqi–Ruoqiang Expressway: Bypass Stockholm [38] Sweden 16.5 km (10.3 mi) 2030 [39] 2 E4