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Thirty years later, new EU rules could end the Channel Tunnel dream

On a foggy spring afternoon in Calais, French President Mitterrand and Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth fastened her seat belts in her royal Rolls-Royce. They arrived in Folkestone in just over half an hour. “It has been a recurring dream of statesmen and engineers for several centuries to rejoin what nature took apart some 40 million… Read More »

Is it the end of the line for the Channel Tunnel service?

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Eurostar carrying passengers from London to Paris. The first paying passengers used this service to travel through the Channel Tunnel in November 1994. As UK newspaper the Guardian reported at the time, “There was a cheer following the £24 million donation.” [€28 million] “The locomotive soared out of… Read More »