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Jules Verne would have thought an idea so brilliant and yet so far-fetched (not so many years) and England to unite Europe through a tunnel built under the waters of the Channel, but after many years of feasibility studies (and seven other works, of course) since 1994 is accessible by train to England from the continent.

The history of the Channel Tunnel was not a easy start, as the British distrust toward anything coming from outside made ​​them reject the idea of ​​being communicated with Europe, thinking that would ultimately ruin their different lifestyle and all its customs, measures and peculiarities so rooted in the Islands. Finally, in 1957 the British government announced they would not object more to a work that would only have practical advantages, but would not begin until 1987 the works of one of the most important engineering works that made the human being.

The course has a length of 50 km, trains run at 100 meters deep, and the journey between Paris and London is about 3 hours (the train continues to Brussels Lille stop doing before), so that the plane competition obviously having to add the flight time and fourth time in advance recommended to be at the airport before the flight and the journey time from the airports to city centers. Read the rest of this entry »