Monday, December 14, 2015

The Chunnel

The Chunnel is a underwater rail tunnel going from France to England.It runs 50.5 kilometres.
Chunnel facts:
It was a estimated 12 billion dollars spent to build it.
They hired 13000 workers. And 10 of them were killed building it.
 Up to 400 trains pass through the tunnel each day, carrying an average of 50,000 passengers, 6,000 cars, 180 coaches and 54,000 tonnes of freight.
It takes around 35 minutes to go across the channel



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