Channel Tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, the Eurotunnel Shuttle for road vehicles and international freight trains.
| FactSnippet No. 937,791 |
10 Facts About Channel Tunnel
2.
Plans to build a cross-Channel Tunnel fixed link appeared as early as 1802, but British political and media pressure over the compromising of national security had disrupted attempts to build one.
| FactSnippet No. 937,792 |
3.
Channel Tunnel's design envisaged a bored two-level tunnel with the top tunnel used for transport and the bottom one for groundwater flows.
| FactSnippet No. 937,793 |
4.
British film from Gaumont Studios, The Channel Tunnel, was released in 1935 as a science-fiction project concerning the creation of a transatlantic tunnel.
| FactSnippet No. 937,794 |
5.
British Channel Tunnel Group consisted of two banks and five construction companies, while their French counterparts, France–Manche, consisted of three banks and five construction companies.
| FactSnippet No. 937,795 |
6.
Anglo-French Treaty on the Channel Tunnel was signed by both governments in Canterbury Cathedral.
| FactSnippet No. 937,796 |
7.
Channel Tunnel was officially opened, one year later than originally planned, by Queen Elizabeth II and the French president, Francois Mitterrand, in a ceremony held in Calais on 6 May 1994.
| FactSnippet No. 937,797 |
8.
Channel Tunnel-induced regional development is small compared to general economic growth.
| FactSnippet No. 937,798 |
9.
Channel Tunnel was arrested close to the British side, after having walked about 30 miles through the tunnel.
| FactSnippet No. 937,799 |
10.
Channel Tunnel was required to keep to the 50-kilometre-per-hour speed limit.
| FactSnippet No. 937,800 |