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The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau 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 tunnel was officially opened on 6 May 1994, with services between Cheriton and Coquelles beginning in July the same year, when the first freight shuttles started running. Passenger services then started in December 1994. As a result of the Sangatte Protocol signed between France and the UK in 1991, juxtaposed controls have been established ...
High Speed 1, the line from London to the Channel Tunnel in Kent has even more capacity – it could triple the number of trains and still have room for more. But it all depends on new entrants ...
The Eurotunnel Calais 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 the commune of Coquelles in the Pas-de-Calais department near the city of Calais. It is the terminal for the France and by extension the rest of Continental Europe.
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.
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The two regularly traveled by the train across the Channel to visit one another. “We were traveling back and forth, every week, every two weeks, taking it in turns,” says Saphia. This state of ...
Even then, it remained possible to connect from the ferry port by bus to Calais's main railway station Calais-Ville - or alternatively, thanks to the opening of the Channel Tunnel, to take a Eurostar train directly from the UK to the newly-opened Calais-Frethun - and from there to take a service train to Paris. Card from the Palatino circa 1984.