Characteristics

• Cost: $15 billion
• Tunnel has 3 tubes which include 1 track each way and a service track
• Length: 31 miles with 23 of them underwater
• The Tunnel was built 150 feet under the seabed
• Fastest way to get between London and Paris
• Takes 20 minutes for the Euro star train to cross

Technology

• 95 miles of tunnels were dug
• 13,000 engineers, technicians and workers helped build the tunnel
• The rubble removed from the digging of the tunnel was used to increase the size of Britain by 90 acres

Significance

• Created a ground link between Great Britain and the rest of Europe