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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 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.
The southwest portal of the Lærdal Tunnel in Norway, the world's longest road tunnel. This list of longest tunnels ranks tunnels that are at least 13 km (8.1 mi) long. Only continuous tunnels are included.
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 fire was reported on 11 September 2008, at approximately 13:57 UTC [3] (14:57 BST / 15:57 CEST) in the North Tunnel 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from the French tunnel entrance.
LeShuttle has a fleet of 15 HGV shuttle trains which each have a locomotive on each end, 31 or 32 mostly open vehicle-carrying wagons (train cars), three loading/unloading wagons (one on either side of the train and one in the middle), and a single passenger carriage called the "club car" which is 25.72 m (84 ft 5 in) long.
Lemley married his wife Pamela (née Hroza) after a previous marriage ended in divorce. He had three children. [1] [10] In the late 1990s, Lemley bought a sloop, a single-masted sailboat named Coeur de Lion (transl. Heart of a Lion) and went on a sailing trip around the world only to realize en route that he did not know much about sailing.
High Speed 1 (HS1), legally the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), is a 109.9-kilometre (68.3-mile) high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel.. It is part of the line carrying international passenger traffic between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe; it also carries domestic passenger traffic to and from stations in Kent and east London, and continental European loading ...