The Channel Tunnel connects the United Kingdom and France. It runs between Folkestone in Kent and Sangatte near Calais in Pas-de-Calais.
You have two options for travelling through the Channel Tunnel. You can take a high speed passenger train, or you can take put your car one of the vehicle transporting trains.
A train takes approximately 25 minutes to go through the Channel Tunnel.
The Eurotunnel Shuttle is the brand name for the car carrying trains which run through the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone and Calais.
Eurostar is the brand name of the company running high speed trains London-Paris and London-Lille-Brussels through the Channel Tunnel.
Eurostar uses the stations: St. Pancras (London), Gare du Nord (Paris), Bruxelles Midi (Brussels) and Lille Europe.
Currently these are the only passenger trains operating through the tunnel.
The Eurostar takes 2 hours 15 minutes between London and Paris. There is approximately one train per hour in each direction.
an English term for the tunnel is 'the chunnel' (a new word coined from 'channel' and 'tunnel')
The Channel Tunnel is normally just called the Channel Tunnel. Road signs say "Channel Tunnel" on the English side, and "Tunnel sous la Manche" on the French side.
The channel tunnel.
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The driving distance from London to Calais, France (east terminus of the Channel Tunnel) is 108.5 miles. Other locations in France are farther, e.g. Paris is 290 miles and Toulouse is 705 miles.
The tunnel going under the English channel connects England and France.
Because the English end of the Channel Tunnel (which links England and France by rail) comes out in the English county of Kent.
This is known as the Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel), named for the English Channel. The Channel Tunnel is no longer referred to as the Chunnel, which was a media generated word when the tunnel first opened but not now.
The Channel Tunnel runs under the English Channel, from Folkestone in Kent to near Calais in Pas-de-Calais.
The "Chunnel" is the name commonly used for the Channel Tunnel, a railway tunnel that runs from France to England under the English Channel.
Chunnel. i.e., the CHannel tUNNEL.