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[5] [6] [7] At 37.9 kilometres (23.5 miles), it has the longest underwater section of any tunnel in the world and is the third-longest railway tunnel in the world. While designed to accommodate trains travelling at up to 200 kilometres per hour (120 miles per hour), for safety, trains are restricted to a top speed of 160 kilometres per hour (99 ...
Orange–Fish River Tunnel: South Africa 82,800 m (51.450 mi) 1972 Longest continuous enclosed aqueduct in the Southern Hemisphere (22.5 m 2 cross section). Built to divert water from the Orange River to the Great Fish River. Water supply Bolmen Water Tunnel: Kronoberg/Scania, Sweden 82,000 m (50.952 mi) 1987 8 m 2 cross section Metro
Pearl River Tunnel 珠江隧道 [12] China 36.043 km (22.4 mi) 2021 Guangzhou–Foshan circular intercity railway: Duomuge Tunnel 多木格隧道 [9] China (Tibet) 36 km (22.4 mi) 2030 Nyingchi–Ya'an railway Gaoligongshan Tunnel: China 34.5 km (21.5 mi) 2022 Dali-Ruili Railway: Chukyo Area Tunnel No.1 [11] Japan
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...
Before 1800, a great deal of coal was left in places as extraction was still primitive. As a result, in the deep Tyneside pits (300 to 1,000 ft deep) only about 40 percent of the coal could be extracted. The use of wooden pit props to support the roof was an innovation first introduced about 1800.
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Rank Country Waterways Date of information — World 2,293,412: 2017 1 Russia 317,505: 2017 2 Brazil 153,348: 2017 3 China 138,357: 2017 [3] European Union 53,384: 2017 4 United States
'Le Shuttle' to change name - to Eurotunnel, calling the franglais name confusing. --Dhartung | Talk 09:00, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)Dwhite It is now called Eurostar --195.248.109.163 20:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC) No its not - Eurostar is the passanger trains, le shuttle (whatever) is the car transporter, might also be the name for the lorry serivce.