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The English Channel, this stretch of sea only 37 kilometres wide, has always been a formidable obstacle to the movement of passenger and freight trains between the continent and Great Britain. While the use of the ferry between Calais - or Dunkirk - and Dover has long been a necessary passage, the construction of the Channel Tunnel, followed by the commissioning of the Eurostar in 1994, revolutionised the Paris-London journey by rail, which used to take almost half a day and now only takes two hours. CHAPTERS - 00:00 Introduction 04:24 Good evening Paris, good morning London 13:16 Waiting for the tunnel BONUS - 26:17 The equipment: The Golden Arrow 31:55 How it works: Tunnel boring machines 36:38 Ideas in advance: From Paris to London by Eurostar 41:18 One man, one job: Eurostar driver