Channel Tunnel

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

The operator blamed the travel chaos on "a problem with the overhead power supply in the Channel Tunnel and a subsequent failed Le Shuttle train".

From Barron's • Dec. 30, 2025

Eurostar has cancelled all trains out of London towards Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels until further notice after a power outage in the Channel Tunnel caused major disruption.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

Instead, “Tommy” was apprehended at the British entrance to the Channel Tunnel last July, apparently on his way to Spain in a Bentley SUV registered to someone else and with about $20,000 in cash.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2025

Here indeed—minus the dreaded sea above us—was an experience of the horrid discomfort of the insanely wished-for Channel Tunnel, and I heartily prayed the scheme might never be accomplished.

From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope