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Channel Tunnel: North Kent
built 629 days ago
A new high-speed railway between the Channel Tunnel and St. Pancras, with intermediate stations at Ashford and Ebbsfleet in Kent, and Stratford in East London. The railway will allow both international and domestic (Kent commuter) services fast access into St. Pancras station.
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This $8.2 billion project is located in the southeast, connecting the Channel Tunnel with Central London. It includes provision for future links to the North. It is 108.8km long and incorporates 3.8km of elevated track and major bridges across principal waterways, 36.8km of tunnel and 117 supplementary bridges. In 1991, the Government announced its decision to implement the route proposed by Arup and that the CTRL project was to be taken forward as a Private Finance Initiative (A ‘PFI’, which is now referred to as ‘Public-Private Partnership’). The Government invited international bids for the concession to design, build, finance, own and operate the CTRL.
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Engineers couldn't use a tunnel boring machine to carve the Seikan Tunnel because the rock and soil beneath the Tsugaru Strait was random and unpredictable. Instead, tunnel workers painstakingly drilled and blasted 33 miles through a major earthquake zone to link the main Japanese island of Honshu with the northern island of Hokkaido. Today, the Seikan Tunnel is the longest railroad tunnel in the world at 33.4 miles in length, 14.3 miles of which lie under the Tsugaru Strait.
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CTRL is basically a French-style LGV high-speed line linking London with the Channel Tunnel portal at Dollands Moor near Folkestone. Although Section 1 is relatively straightforward and follows existing transport corridors such as the M2 motorway, Section 2 requires large amounts of tunnelling under the River Thames and under East and North London.
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Both STTS vehicles arrive at #4134 half an hour after the fleeing people entered the safety tunnel. Several people showed signs of intoxication and they received first aid. An oncoming train was stopped in the northbound tube and transported the passengers out. 8 people were brought into hospitals.
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Eurostar trains travel over land at high speeds on modern tracks designed for 300 km/h (186 mph), and within the tunnel at up to 160 km/h (100 mph). The first section of High Speed 1, between the tunnel and Ebbsfleet International railway station in North Kent, opened in 2003. Until the second section between Ebbsfleet and St Pancras opened in 2007 Eurostar trains used 'traditional' lines for the final part of the journey into Waterloo, running at much lower speeds.
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