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A cross channel tunnel was first proposed in 1802 and construction actually started in 1881 before being abandoned. Roll-on/roll-off ferry services provided links across the channel for vehicles. A road tunnel was proposed in 1979, but not considered viable. Construction of the Channel Tunnel started in 1988 and the tunnel opened in 1994.
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.
Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom (railway through the English Channel), at 50.5 km (31.4 mi); International Tunnel de Bielsa-Aragnouet France – Spain: total length 3.07 km, diameter 7.5 m, 100 m minimum distance between one after another vehicles, asphalt lane 6 m wide, for vehicles high max 4.3 m, max speed 60 km/h (37 mi/h)
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.. The service is operated by the Eurostar Group which was formed from the merger of Eurostar, which operated trains through the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom, and Thalys which operated in Western Europe.
Cross-sea traffic ways are vehicle or railroad traffic ways across the sea. ... Channel Tunnel (France-United Kingdom) Seikan Tunnel (Japan) Sea tunnels under ...
Bahasa Indonesia; Magyar; ... Channel Tunnel (4 C, 40 P) Pages in category "International tunnels" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Crossing the Bohai Strait, the tunnel would be 123 kilometers (76 mi) long, of which 90 kilometers (56 mi) would be underwater. This would exceed the combined lengths of the two longest undersea tunnels in the world, the Seikan Tunnel (23.3 km or 14.5 mi) and the Channel Tunnel (37.9 km or 23.5 mi). [2]
The Seikan Tunnel is the world's longest tunnel with an undersea segment: 53.8 km: 240 m: 1971–1988 Flekkerøy Tunnel: Flekkerøy, Norway: Connecting the island community of Flekkerøy in southern Norway to the mainland: 2.3 km: 101 m: 1986–1989 Sydney Harbour Tunnel: Sydney, Australia: 2.8 km: 1988–1992 Channel Tunnel: England – France