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NEWS ABOUT: Channel Tunnel

Channel Tunnel stories: 3 news summaries

Wanna Buy the Chunnel? Get it Now From Slash Gordon

Brown mounts $25.3B asset sale, including underwater rail link

Oct 12, 09 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is launching a massive $25.3 billion sell-off of Britain's assets, ranging from student loans to the Chunnel linking England and France, in order to reduce record deficits and maintain public expenditures. As the British election draws nearer, the Labor Party is attempting to burnish... More »

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Gordon Brown • privatization • national debt • Eurostar • Channel Tunnel • public goods • public land

 Eurotunnel Boasts First Profit 

Debt-plagued cross-Channel rail company sees light at the end of the tunnel

Apr 8, 08 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eurotunnel is in the black for the first time since the France-England tunnel opened in 1994, the BBC reports. The company says it has turned the corner after many troubled years, helped by a sweeping debt restructuring plan and the opening of a new high-speed rail link on the British... More »

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London • debt • Paris • train • Eurostar • Channel Tunnel • Eurotunnel

London Unveils Hip Rail Station

St. Pancras gets a spruce-up, new high-speed link to the Chunnel

Nov 7, 07 2:01 PM CST
(Newser) - London's St. Pancras train station has gotten a nifty £800 million (nearly $1.7 billion) renovation and a new high-speed rail link to the Chunnel, the Times of London reports. Queen Elizabeth and assorted celebrities officially opened the new route last night with pomp and theatricals; the head of... More »

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London • train • Channel Tunnel • Britain • St Pancras Station

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