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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
The longest continuous underwater vehicular tunnel in the world when first built, crossing the Hudson River between Manhattan and Jersey City: 2.6 km: 28.3 m: 1920–1927 Detroit–Windsor Tunnel: Windsor, Canada – Detroit, USA: Connect Ontario, Canada to Michigan, USA. under the Detroit River opened on November 3, 1930 1.57 km 13.7 m 1928–1930
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 ...
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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.
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.
'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.