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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 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.
Groupe Eurotunnel was established on 13 August 1986 to finance, build, and operate the Channel Tunnel under a concession granted by the French and British governments. The tunnel was constructed between 1988 and 1994 by TransManche Link (TML) under a contract issued by Groupe Eurotunnel; construction costs would overrun considerably, from TML's ...
By way of comparison, the 50-kilometer (31-mile) Channel Tunnel linking England and France, completed in 1993, cost the equivalent of £12 billion ($13.6 billion) in today’s money.
The Regional Eurostar rolling stock was built, but not a single train ever ran to Europe from anywhere other than London. ... High Speed 1, the line from London to the Channel Tunnel in Kent has ...
Channel Tunnel: English Channel, United Kingdom/France 50,450 m (31.348 mi) 1994 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
A service road tunnel runs the entire length of the crossing, but is closed to general use and used only during emergencies and for maintenance. Cyclists – both amateur and professional – have crossed the channel via the tunnel on special occasions. [2] There have been proposals at various times for a second channel tunnel of some kind. [3]
Last March, Amtrak, armed with $66 billion in funding from the 2021 infrastructure bill, began a $6 billion project to build a new tunnel that's scheduled to open in 2035. That was just one of ...