00:00:03channel tunnel canet england the rest of
00:00:05europe more specifically the 31 mile
00:00:08tunnel actually connects boats intent to
00:00:11tokyo in northern france as early as
00:00:131801 a proposal was made to connect
00:00:16england to the rest of europe however it
00:00:18wasn’t completed until nineteen ninety
00:00:20four when the channel officially opened
00:00:23in may it actually consists of three
00:00:25parallel tunnels two of which carry
00:00:27trains north and south at speeds of more
00:00:29than 100 miles per hour and the third
00:00:32one is a service tunnel which allows
00:00:34access for maintenance workers 24 miles
00:00:37of the tunnel actually passed underneath
00:00:40the english channel 150 feet below sea
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