The Channel Tunnel in Details The Channel Tunnel

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The Channel Tunnel is a 50. 5 -kilometre (31. 4 mi) rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de. Calais, near Calais in northern France, the English Channel at its lowest point, it is 75 m (250 ft) deep.

The project cost £ 4. 65 billion (equivalent to £ 12 billion today), 80 per cent more than expected. Construction took six years (19881994)

There actually three tunnels down there - two for trains and a smaller service tunnel that can be used in emergencies.

Up to 400 trains pass through the tunnel each day, carrying an average of 50, 000 passengers, 6, 000 cars, 180 coaches and 54, 000 tonnes of freight.

It takes around 35 minutes to travel the length of the Channel Tunnel.

At the height of construction, 13, 000 people were employed. Ten workers - eight of them British were killed building the tunnel.

It was recognised as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World" by the American Society of Civil Engineers, alongside the Empire State Building, the Itaipu Dam in South America, the CN Tower in Toronto, the Panama Canal, the North Sea protection works in the Netherlands, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Shuttle trains are 775 metres long the same as eight football pitches.

STUDENTS Angelo Ntzouvaliakis Melina Hindri Margaret Papadopoulou Alex Papachristou Kostas Topkas