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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.
It is the terminal for the France and by extension the rest of Continental Europe. On the British side is the Eurotunnel Folkestone Terminal located at Cheriton, near Folkestone. The passenger service building at the Eurotunnel Calais Terminal is called the Charles Dickens Terminal, named for the British author Charles Dickens. [1]
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 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.
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 ...
The European route E15 is part of the United Nations international E-road network.It is a north–south "reference road", running from Inverness, Scotland south through England and France to Algeciras, Spain. [1]
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 English Channel is one of the world's busiest seaways carrying over 400 ships per day [20] between Europe's North Sea and Baltic Sea ports and the rest of the world. As well as its role in freight movement, sea transport is an important part of Europe's energy supply. Europe is one of the world's major oil tanker discharge