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Rail tunnel beneath the English Channel between France and Great Britain

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  • rail tunnel beneath the English Channel between France and Great Britain (en)
  • Spoorwegtunnel tussen Frankrijk en het Verenigd Koninkrijk (nl)
  • Calais' väina rajatud merealune tunnel (et)
  • Eisenbahntunnel zwischen England und Frankreich (de)
  • tunel kolejowy pod kanałem La Manche (50,5 km; Calais, Francja – Folkestone, Wlk. Brytania; od 1994) (pl)
  • железнодорожный двухпутный тоннель под проливом Ла-Манш (ru)
  • cuniculus (la)
  • tunnel ferroviaire sous la Manche (fr)
  • tunnel ferroviario (it)
  • túnel ferroviário (pt)
  • rautatietunneli Englannin kanaalin ali Englannin ja Ranskan välillä (fi)
  • železniški predor pod Rokavskim prelivom med Francijo in Veliko Britanijo (sl)
  • ثاني أطول نفق بحري والثالث على مستوى العالم (ar)
  • železniční tunel pod Kanálem La Manche mezi Francií a Velkou Británií (cs)
  • järnvägstunnel under Engelska kanalen som invigdes 6 maj 1994 (sv)
  • vasúti alagút Calais (FR) és Dover (GB) között (hu)
  • terowongan rel di bawah Selat Inggris antara Prancis dan Britania Raya (in)
  • Fransa ve İngiltere'yi bağlayan yer altı tüneli (tr)
  • Túnel ferroviario que liga a Francia á Inglaterra por debaixo da auga (gl)
  • túnel que travessa el Canal de la Mànega, connectant el Regne Unit amb el continent europeu (ca)
  • железнички тунел под Ламанш меѓу Франција и Британија (mk)
  • fransa və İngiltərəni bir-birinə bağlayan tunel (az)
  • túnel ferroviario que cruza el Canal de la Mancha, uniendo Francia con el Reino Unido (es)
  • 法國和英國之間英吉利海峽下的鐵路隧道 (zh)
  • מנהרה תת-ימית המקשרת בין בריטניה לצרפת (iw)
  • σιδηροδρομική σήραγγα μεταξύ Αγγλίας και Γαλλίας (el)
  • ドーバー海峡を通るイギリスとフランス間を結ぶ鉄道用トンネル (ja)
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  • 1 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
  • 2 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
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  • Active
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  • right (en)
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  • Passenger trains, freight trains, vehicle shuttle trains (en)
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  • yes (en)
dbp:date
  • 2012-05-08 (xsd:date)
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  • 352.2 (dbd:second)
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  • (en)
  • Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France (en)
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  • co/008410 (en)
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  • no (en)
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  • English Channel (en)
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  • 1 (xsd:integer)
  • 2 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1994-05-06 (xsd:date)
  • 1994-06-01 (xsd:date)
  • 1994-11-14 (xsd:date)
  • (en)
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  • (en)
  • Eurostar (en)
  • Getlink (en)
  • DB Cargo UK (en)
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  • * 1802: Albert Mathieu put forward a cross-Channel tunnel proposal. * 1875: The Channel Tunnel Company Ltd began preliminary trials * 1882: The Abbot's Cliff heading had reached and that at Shakespeare Cliff was in length * January 1975: A UK–France government-backed scheme, which started in 1974, was cancelled * February 1986: The Treaty of Canterbury was signed, allowing the project to proceed * June 1988: First tunnelling commenced in France * December 1988: UK TBM commenced operation * December 1990: Service tunnel broke through under the Channel * May 1994: Tunnel formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand * June 1994: Freight trains commenced operations * November 1994: Passenger trains commenced operation * November 1996: Fire in a heavy goods vehicle shuttle severely damaged the tunnel * November 2007: High Speed 1, linking London to the tunnel, opened * September 2008: Another fire in an HGV shuttle severely damaged the tunnel * December 2009: Eurostar trains stranded in the tunnel due to melting snow affecting the trains' electrical hardware * November 2011: First commercial freight service run on High Speed 1 (en)
dbp:reference
  • West, Graham. Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry , Chapter 11: Hard rock tunnelling machines. (en)
  • Hemphill, Gary B. Practical Tunnel Construction , Chapter 7: Tunnel-boring machines: History of tunnel-boring machine. (en)
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  • (en)
  • Folkestone, Kent, England, (en)
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  • Active (en)
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  • Documents and clippings about (en)
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  • Channel Tunnel safety (en)
  • Key dates (en)
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  • Channel Tunnel (en)
  • Eurotúnel (ca)
  • نفق المانش (ar)
  • Eurotunel (cs)
  • Σήραγγα της Μάγχης (el)
  • Manika Tunelo (eo)
  • Eurotunnel (de)
  • Eurotunela (eu)
  • Eurotúnel (es)
  • Tollán Mhuir nIocht (ga)
  • Terowongan Channel (in)
  • Tunnel sous la Manche (fr)
  • Tunnel della Manica (it)
  • 英仏海峡トンネル (ja)
  • Kanaaltunnel (nl)
  • 채널 터널 (ko)
  • Eurotunel (pl)
  • Eurotúnel (pt)
  • Евротоннель (ru)
  • Kanaltunneln (sv)
  • Євротунель (uk)
  • 英法海底隧道 (zh)
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