THE EUROTUNNEL

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THE EUROTUNNEL

The Eurotunnel is an underwater tunnel linking France with the United Kingdom.This railway tunnel crosses the English channel below the sea floor communicating the northwest of France with the southeast of the island of England.

Its 50.5 kilometers in length allow to travel between the capitals of both countries in just 2 hours and 20 minutes by train and 1 hour and 57 minutes from London to Brussels which is a major advance for European trade the main reason for its creation .

THE AGREEMENT TO BUILD IT WAS SIGNED ON 29 JULY 1987 BETWEEN FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERRAND AND PRESIDENT MARGARET THATCHER

4000 workers of the British side and 4000 of the French worked for the excavation of the tunnels of each country that were to be in the middle of way not distancing in more than 2.5 meters. Both tunnels came together in 1991 and remained only 35 cm, which was a great success. They used 1 million tons of concrete to reinforce the construction that was formed by 3 galleries (2 tunnels for the rail transport, one of one and one of return and a gallery of services will prepare to circulate with electric cars and united by other transverse gallery of Help and maintenance.).

   

It was opened to the public on May 6, 1994.The work cost 16 billion euros financed by private companies in exchange for the concession of their exploitation because the French and British governments refused to publicly fund the project.  Eurotunnel is the private company that manages the railway transport charging tolls to the railway companies that use the rail transport and exploiting themselves the traffic of merchandise and passengers since the eurotunnel has 2 variants:

EUROSTAR FOR PASSENGERS

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- the Shuttle that transports cars, trucks and motorbikes on trains while their drivers can stay in their vehicles, walk while they cross the tunnel or move to the club car where they have seats and a catering service

The journey takes 35 minutes between Calais in France and Folkestone in United Kingdom. On both frontiers there are French and English police to monitor the thousands of illegal immigrants who try to take advantage of vehicle traffic from Calais to fulfill their dream of finding work and improving their living conditions in the UK.

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