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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.
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 .
The Eurotunnel Folkestone Terminal, used by cars, coaches and lorries catching the Eurotunnel Shuttle, is visible in the distance. Dollands Moor Freight Yard is a railway freight yard near Folkestone in Kent, and was purpose built in 1988 for the Channel Tunnel .
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 station was renamed Folkestone Central in 1895. The station was rebuilt at the time of the route's electrification in 1961 [ 2 ] with two island platforms , linked by a subway and with ramps leading up from the ticket office and concourse, which is itself above street level (an approach road and accompanying pedestrian ramp leads up from ...
This is a route-map template for the Channel Tunnel, a railway in Europe.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The international terminal concourse. The station is to the southeast of the town centre at the convergence of several important lines. These are High Speed 1 from London St Pancras International to the Channel Tunnel, the South Eastern Main Line from London Charing Cross to Dover Priory, the Maidstone line from London Victoria via Maidstone East, the Ashford to Ramsgate line via Canterbury ...
Stagecoach in East Kent operates local bus services to Canterbury every hour or to the town centre of Folkestone up to every 8 minutes. Cheriton is the location of the Eurotunnel Folkestone Terminal, which connects through the Channel Tunnel to the Eurotunnel Calais Terminal located at Coquelles, near Calais.