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    The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35 mi) undersea railway tunnel...
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    Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth...
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  • for a tunnel across the North Channel. In 1980, John Biggs-Davison suggested European Economic Community involvement in a North Channel tunnel; Philip...
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    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...
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  • There have been several fires in vehicles being transported through the Channel Tunnel since its opening in 1994. As of 2022[update] all were caused by lorries...
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  • (such as the Channel Tunnel or the Seikan Tunnel) being electrified rail tunnels. Various methods are used to construct underwater tunnels, including an...
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  • French politician and the lower half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel at the midpoint between France and the UK. The killer is nicknamed the...
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    A tunnel boring machine (TBM), also known as a "mole", is a machine used to excavate tunnels. Tunnels are excavated through hard rock, wet or dry soil...
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    vehicles (HGVs) and their drivers caught fire while travelling through the Channel Tunnel. The fire lasted for sixteen hours and reached temperatures of up to...
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    Pedal cycles in the Channel Tunnel are normally allowed to cross the Channel Tunnel fixed link between the United Kingdom and France only by using the...
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  • Getlink (redirect from Euro tunnel)
    based in Paris that manages and operates the infrastructure of the Channel Tunnel between France and the United Kingdom, operates the LeShuttle railway...
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    for a 100 minute crossing) Many travellers cross beneath the Channel using the Channel Tunnel, first proposed in the early 19th century and finally opened...
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    The Channel Tunnel fire of 18 November 1996 occurred on a train carrying Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) and their drivers through the Channel Tunnel from...
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    not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube construction techniques rather than traditional tunnel boring methods. A tunnel may be...
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    on the Hokkaido side. The Seikan Tunnel is the world's longest undersea tunnel by overall length (the Channel Tunnel, while shorter, has a longer undersea...
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  • materials science. Existing major tunnels, such as the Channel Tunnel, Seikan Tunnel and the Gotthard Base Tunnel, despite using less expensive technology...
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    Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel, or Korea–Japan Undersea Tunnel, is a proposed tunnel project to connect Japan with South Korea via an undersea tunnel crossing the...
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    maritime border that stretches along the Channel, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The Channel Tunnel links the two countries underground and is...
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    Eurostar (category Channel Tunnel)
    formed from the merger of Eurostar, which operated trains through the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom, and Thalys which operated in Western Europe....
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  • the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. The renewal for a second series was announced on 15 February 2015. Titled The Tunnel: Sabotage...
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    rebranded as Trane Technologies. The Channel Tunnel is a 50.45-kilometre (31.35 mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, linking the United Kingdom with...
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  • The Fort Point Channel Tunnel is a tunnel underneath the South Boston Streets and Fort Point Channel. It was built using a casting basin. It was built...
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    algae. Marl makes up the lower part of the cliffs of Dover, and the Channel Tunnel follows these marl layers between France and the United Kingdom. Marl...
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    land created from the rock excavated during the construction of the Channel Tunnel. It covers a 74-acre (30 ha) site at the foot of Shakespeare Cliff,...
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  • Australia. Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy Channel Tunnel or Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath...
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  • English Channel. Plans to build the Channel Tunnel were scrapped in the 1970s on cost grounds. This gave the Night Ferry a short reprieve; a tunnel would...
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    for a railway tunnel. According to the company, the main differences between the construction of this tunnel and that of the Channel Tunnel, linking France...
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  • up tunnel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A tunnel is an underground passage such as: Bridge-tunnel Canal tunnel Channel tunnel Escape tunnel Immersed...
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    major tunnels of High Speed 1, forming a part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. In 2016, overhead line equipment (OHLE) was installed in the tunnel to allow...
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  • after becoming a metallurgist, Dwyer worked on the construction of the Channel Tunnel. Dwyer died in Somerset in 2003, aged 49, following a long illness....
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