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Channel Tunnel
The channel tunnel is 50 kilometers long it is linking Folkstone to Coquelles.
It is 75 meters deep. It possesses the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world ! The tunnel carries Eurostar passenger trains and the Eurotunnel shuttle .
To construct it there were eleven tunnel boring machines wich were working !
Total cross-tunnel passenger traffic volume was 18.4 million in 1998, 14.9 million in 2003, and 17.0 million in 2010.
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