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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 first successful tunnelling shield was developed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel to excavate the Thames Tunnel in 1825. However, this was only the invention of the shield concept and did not involve the construction of a complete tunnel boring machine, the digging still having to be accomplished by the then standard excavation methods.
The participants were as follows: [1] Channel Tunnel Group (later Translink Contractors) Balfour Beatty; Costain; Tarmac Construction; Taylor Woodrow Construction
Getlink, formerly Groupe Eurotunnel, is a European public company based in Paris that manages and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel between France and the United Kingdom, operates the LeShuttle railway service, and earns revenue on other trains that operate through the tunnel (Eurostar passenger and DB Schenker freight).
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.
LeShuttle [1] (formerly Eurotunnel Le Shuttle and also known as The Shuttle) is a railway shuttle service between Calais in France and Folkestone in the United Kingdom.It conveys road vehicles (including cars, bicycles and motorcycles) and passengers (including some animals) by rail through the Channel Tunnel.
Tour de France Winner Chris Froome (right) with the 3 Jaguar XF Sportbrake support cars (left) and a Class 9 Eurotunnel Car Shuttle train (behind). Cycling on the screed surface in the Channel Tunnel service tunnel, between the two railway tunnels Mike Turner (left) and Wally Michalski (right) inside the French Portal in October 1993 with two Saracen Sahara bicycles they had ridden from the UK ...
The Channel Tunnel is a 50.45 km (31.35 mi) long undersea railway tunnel linking Folkestone in the United Kingdom with Coquelles near Calais in northern France. [1] [2] A 4.8 m (16 ft) diameter service tunnel is positioned between two 7.6 m (25 ft) diameter running tunnels each with standard gauge rail track with an overhead line energised at 25 kV 50 Hz.