What exactly is the chunnel?

Question

can you guys give me some details about the chunnel like how it works and the construction and history????Anything at all will help!!!

Answer 1

It's a hole in the ground in Kent, from which a lot of frogs emerge.

Answer 2

yahoo/google it....wickapedia.....

Answer 3

Google it.

Answer 4

The Chunnel is the UK media's term for the Channel Tunnel between England (UK) and France. Presumably as 'Channel Tunnel' took up too much headline space. The 'chunnel' tag is rarely used now...

The Tunnel runs from Chertion (near Folkstone) in Kent, to Coquelles (near Calais) in France. It consists of 3 parallel tunnels, trains run through the two outer tunnels (one for each direction) while the central 'service' tunnel is used for maintainance access and if need be, emergency evacuation.

The tunnel is used by a mixture of vehicle shuttles in Tourist (Car/Coach) and Freight (Trucks), Rail Freight, and High Speed Eurostar services.

It opened in 1994, there was a small visitors centre in Cheriton which had information on the construction (and one of the Tunnel Boring Machines used to build the tunnel)

Answer 5

It is a rail tunnel under the English channel separating England and France. Two rail operators use it: Eurostar

www.eurostar.com operating regular high speed passenger trains between London St Pancras and Brussels (Belguim) and Paris (France), and 'Eurotunnel' operating a train carrying

trucks, cars and their drivers between Folkestone (England) and Calais (France). www.eurotunnel.com. Passenger trains from  London  take only 2 hours to Brussels and 2 hours 15 minutes to Paris  city centre to city centre and the train now attracts 75% of passengers travelling between London and Paris.

Answer 6

The "Chunnel", or Chanel Tunnel, is the combined effort of British Railways and the French National Railway Service (whose name I do not know) to create a multi-level railway tunnel under the English Chanel from Dover, UK to Calais, FR.

The Chunnel took several years to build and is one of the marvels of modern engineering.

Answer 7

Rail Europe's FAQ on the Channel Tunnel is good:

http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/eurost...

Answer 8

The underground train going from the English coast (Dover I believe) to Calais on the French coast.