Eurotunnel

Relax in the comfort of your own car on the fastest Channel crossing: Folkestone to Calais in just 35 minutes.

Also Known as the Cross Channel Link or le tunnel sous la Manche, the Eurotunnel links Cheriton in Kent, England with Coquelles in northern France.The 50km lon rail link was built under the English Channel and completed in 1994. It is the second longest rail tunnel in the world.

Eurostar speeds you through the Channel Tunnel, one of Europe's biggest infrastructure projects to date. The $15 billion Channel Tunnel makes the old dream of a ground link between Great Britain and continental Europe a reality for the first time since the Ice Ages.

The tunnel consists of 3 interconnected tubes: 1 rail track each way plus 1 service tunnel. Its length is 31 miles, of which 23 miles are underwater. Its average depth is 150 feet under the seabed. The channel crossing time for Eurostar is only 20 minutes.

95 miles of tunnels were dug by nearly 13,000 engineers, technicians and workers. The volume of rubble removed from the tunnel is three times greater than that of the Cheops Pyramid in Egypt. And it has increased the size of Britain by 90 acres. Equivalent to 68 football fields, this area has been made into a park.