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A Kent MP has welcomed Virgin Trains’ latest announcement as it edges closer to rivalling Eurostar through the Channel Tunnel ...
VTE Holdings (Virgin) has agreed a deal with Alstom to supply 12 Avelia Stream high-speed trains for cross-Channel services ...
Embark on an exciting journey aboard the Eurostar from Paris to London, traveling beneath the English Channel at speeds of up ...
High Speed 1, the line from London to the Channel Tunnel in Kent has even more capacity – it could triple the number of trains and still have room for more. But it all depends on new entrants ...
In Standard Class, travelers can choose from one of the train’s two bar-buffets. The trains can operate at up to 300 km/h (186 mph) on high-speed lines, and 160 km/h (99 mph) in the Channel Tunnel.
“The Channel Tunnel is a political, diplomatic, financial and technical success,” says Ed Bartholomew. “It’s now firmly embedded in the economies of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe.” ...
The Channel Tunnel came in at £4.65bn (£8.5bn, or $11bn, today) and the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will probably cost more than 7bn euros ($8.2bn). That hasn’t stopped some dreaming, though.
A Sudanese migrant is accused of almost succeeding in walking 31 miles through the pitch-dark Channel Tunnel from France to Britain, dodging tight security and high-speed trains along the way.
LONDON—A broken power cable has halted a freight train in the tunnel under the English Channel, its operator said on Monday. Groupe Eurotunnel SA, the British-French company that operates ...
About 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel through the French terminal near Calais Monday night in an attempt to reach the UK, Eurotunnel says.