Classic route
Eurotunnel Le Shuttle
Folkestone → Calais · England · France
- Distance
- 58 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 35 min
- Average speed
- 99 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Getlink
- Train
- Class 9 locomotives · vehicle wagons
- Countries
- England, France
- In service since
- 1994
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Drive on at Folkestone, drive off at Calais: thirty five minutes under the Channel on the shuttle that carries the cars, and the only fixed link between Britain and the continent.
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