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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.
The tunnel was officially opened on 6 May 1994, with services between Cheriton and Coquelles beginning in July the same year, when the first freight shuttles started running. Passenger services then started in December 1994. As a result of the Sangatte Protocol signed between France and the UK in 1991, juxtaposed controls have been established ...
Channel Tunnel: Railway: 50,459: 55,183: Consists of two single track railway tunnels and one service tunnel, 26,988 m of the tunnel is on the British side of the UK/France border: 1994: Kent Ashford Cut and Cover Tunnel Railway 1,562 1,708 Part of High Speed 1 railway [30] 2003 Kent: Medway Tunnel: Road: 240: 260: Carries A289: 1996: Kent ...
High Speed 1 , the link from London to the Channel Tunnel entrance at Folkestone, is currently running at less than half of available capacity. The main challenge to any new entrant is likely to ...
High Speed 1, the line from London to the Channel Tunnel in Kent has even more capacity – it could triple the number of trains and still have room for more. But it all depends on new entrants ...
With France visible across the Strait of Dover, the town became an important transit point for those travelling from the UK to the Continent. Plans to restore ferry traffic to Boulogne, following termination in 2001, were discussed in 2005, but they did not come to fruition. [24] The Channel Tunnel northern entrance is located at Cheriton.
Beaune had earlier called for an immediate solution to the strike affecting trains between the UK and France. “The blocking of the tunnel under the Channel is unacceptable.
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996 (c. 61) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made legal provision for the construction, maintenance and operation of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link between St Pancras railway station and the entrance to the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone which is now known as High Speed 1 (HS1) although officially under the legislation it is still the Channel ...