Classic route
Eurotunnel Le Shuttle
Folkestone → Calais · England · France
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9967804 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 92.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4.5 km
Questions and answers
How long is the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle?
The Eurotunnel Le Shuttle runs 58 km from Folkestone to Calais. It runs through England and France.
How long does the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 35 min for the 58 km. That is an average of 99 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle?
Getlink, with Class 9 locomotives, vehicle wagons.
How old is the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle?
The line has been in service since 1994. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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