London Paris Underwater Train

The underwater section is 22 miles but as you can imagine there are long approach gradients as the tunnel works down to well under the sea so the tunnel is another 10 miles in length.
London paris underwater train. You left london about a half hour ago. There are around 15 trains per day running from london in the uk to paris in france passing 246 feet under the channel tunnel also known as the chunnel on its way between capital cities. You take a sip of water and continue your sudoku. First in english then in french.
You may or may not be looking out the window. The average train time from london to paris is 2h 20m although it takes just 2h 16m on the fastest high speed eurostar services. Total transit time is invariably 20 minutes nowadays entry to exit of which about 14 minutes will be under the sea. Eurostar runs from london to paris and vice versa every 30 minutes during peak hours and approximately once per hour during non peak time.
Then there are some train announcements. The journey time may be longer on weekends and holidays so use our journey planner on this page to search for a specific travel date. The eurostar only spends 20 minutes of its journey in the tunnel. In 1994 the american society of civil engineers elected the tunnel as one of the seven modern wonders of the world.
Eurostar trains arrive right in the heart of paris at gare du nord station. Normal train announcements are made about food drinks tickets and such. During the peak summer season up to 24 trains run daily to paris. In 1995 the american magazine popular mechanics published the results.
And since all the passport checks are done before we leave the uk you can step straight off the train and into the action. Odyssey the first virtual reality experience on a train lets you dive into the world beyond the tunnel walls using your phone or tablet. Not far from the platform you ll find métro and rer trains to whisk you to paris top museums and galleries where your eurostar ticket gives you 2 for 1 entry. The average journey time by train between paris and london is 2 hours and 29 minutes with around 18 trains per day.
Eurostar is the service that allows you to catch a train from london to paris and beyond. There s a sea in the way of course but eurostar dives under it using the 31 mile channel tunnel.