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2. Channel Tunnel - Wikipedia

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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.

3. LeShuttle - Wikipedia

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   LeShuttle [1] (formerly Eurotunnel Le Shuttle and also known as The Shuttle) is a railway shuttle service between Calais in France and Folkestone in the United Kingdom.It conveys road vehicles (including cars, bicycles and motorcycles) and passengers (including some animals) by rail through the Channel Tunnel.

4. Eurotunnel Folkestone Terminal - Wikipedia

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   As part of the Channel Tunnel project, the plan for services included the use of dedicated shuttle trains that would carry both passenger and freight vehicles between Britain and France, which would compete with the cross-channel ferries. In order to accommodate these services, it was planned to build a brand new vehicle terminal on each side ...

5. Trains will run from London to Cologne, Frankfurt and Geneva ...

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   The Channel Tunnel opened to passenger trains in November 1994. In the 29 years since then, Eurostar has had the market to itself. It currently runs from London St Pancras International to Paris ...

6. Car shuttle train - Wikipedia

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   Accompanied road vehicles are carried in closed railway wagons through the Channel Tunnel between Sangatte (Pas-de-Calais, France) and Cheriton (Kent, United Kingdom).The car shuttle train is unique in that it is fully enclosed, and allows for double decker buses to travel in the same wagons as other regular passenger vehicles.

7. Eurostar chaos as London-Paris train stuck in Channel Tunnel ...

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   Eurostar now says the train arrived at Gare du Nord at 2.20pm, rather than the expected 9.20am. All the following trains in both directions were also disrupted after the tunnel switched to single ...

8. Cycling in the Channel Tunnel - Wikipedia

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   Tour de France Winner Chris Froome (right) with the 3 Jaguar XF Sportbrake support cars (left) and a Class 9 Eurotunnel Car Shuttle train (behind). Cycling on the screed surface in the Channel Tunnel service tunnel, between the two railway tunnels Mike Turner (left) and Wally Michalski (right) inside the French Portal in October 1993 with two Saracen Sahara bicycles they had ridden from the UK ...

9. Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links - Wikipedia

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   A tunnel would likely be an electrified rail tunnel with car shuttles due to the depth of the Strait of Gibraltar (up to 900 metres (3,000 ft)) and the length of the tunnel making it a great challenge to remove vehicle exhaust. Similar considerations led to the Channel Tunnel linking the UK and France not being a highway tunnel.