Channel Tunnel

British

noun

Also called: Chunnel. Eurotunnel. the Anglo-French railway tunnel that runs beneath the English Channel, between Folkestone and Coquelles, near Calais; opened in 1994

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They included the Channel Tunnel rail link, a toll bridge across the Thames River, and shares in a uranium-processing company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

This follows Eurostar services being hit after a power supply problem caused significant disruption in the Channel Tunnel last week, leaving thousands struggling to travel ahead of New Year's Eve.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

Rail traffic through the Channel Tunnel had only resumed on New Year's Eve, after an electricity failure stranded thousands of passengers and even trapped some for a night on a powerless train.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

Getlink, which runs the Channel Tunnel, said work continued through the night to fix the power issue.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

It constitutes such a bogey as the Channel Tunnel scheme once was: each side sits jealously at its own end, anticipating hostile enterprises from the other.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Hay, Ian

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