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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.
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 English Channel first developed as an arm of the Atlantic Ocean ... some 500 m wide and 25 m deep, ... coaches and lorries are carried on Eurotunnel Shuttle ...
Eysturoy Tunnel, which opened in 2020, took four years to complete. It dramatically cut the travel time between the Faroe Islands capital on the island of Streymoy and neighboring Eysturoy island.
“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe ... At around 600 miles wide and up to 6,000 meters (nearly four miles) deep, the Drake is objectively a vast body of water. To us, that is. To the ...
24 ft (7.3 m) diameter (42m 2 cross section); discharges treated effluent into Atlantic Ocean Railway Single Tube Firenzuola: Bologna – Firenze, Italy 15,285 m (9.498 mi) 2009 Bologna–Florence high-speed railway: Hydroelectric Inguri Hydroelectric Power Station Water Tunnel Georgia (at the time of construction Soviet Union) 15,279 m (9.494 mi)
Eurotunnel collects €20 (£17) for each passenger on Eurostar trains. The Channel Tunnel opened to passenger trains in November 1994. In the 29 years since then, Eurostar has had the market to ...
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 .