PARIS (Reuters) - Eurotunnel is on Wednesday celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Channel Tunnel breakthrough. 1751 - Engineer Nicolas Desmarets suggests the idea of digging a tunnel under the ...

A chronicle of an engineering marvel and the challenges that almost brought it to ruin. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawing their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three. A ...

Thirty years ago Queen Elizabeth II and French president Francois Mitterand officially opened the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone in Kent and Calais in northern France. So how much has the link ...

The future is now for the Channel Tunnel Dan Hughes, infrastructure director at GetLink, talks about the last 30 years of the channel tunnel and what the future might hold.

Double-decker trains could soon operate through Channel Tunnel - Alstom’s high-speed trains, running up to 200mph, are being considered for the London-Paris route ...

The Tunnel and the rail networks that connect to it are designed to carry more than 20 million high-speed passengers across the Channel each year, almost double the current level.

Here are some key facts about the Channel Tunnel between England and France. * TIMELINE 1751 - Engineer Nicolas Desmarets suggests the idea of digging a tunnel under the English Channel.