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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.
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As was formerly noted, the thing is known by almost everyone as simply "the Channel Tunnel". I would suggest that any other detail should go somewhere other than the opening sentence, which is already a bit rambling. --Rollo 18:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC) Around here, 'the Chunnel' is all it is ever called.
The tunnel, concealed with wooden panels and hidden access through a sewer, measured approximately 300 meters on the Mexican side, with dimensions of 1.80 meters in height and 1.20 meters in width.
Chris Froome in June 2014, one of a number of cyclists to have ridden through the Channel Tunnel. On the night of 2/3 December 1994, [9] [10] a group of professional and semi-professional cyclists went road bicycle racing from London to Paris in aid of Téléthon en France '94 broadcast live on French national television.
One of his first major projects was construction of the King Khalid Military City in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [ 1 ] In 1989, Lemley joined the TransManche Link , a consortium of British and French construction companies that was tasked with building the 31-mile Channel Tunnel , an undersea tunnel linking France and Britain.
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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.