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On 28 September 2003 passengers are scheduled to start riding on Britain's all-new-main line railway, the first section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Running 74 km from near the Channel Tunnel portal at Folkestone to Fawkham Junction on the southeastern outskirts of London, the project is Britain's first new inter-city route for a century and the first UK railway with a line speed of up to 300 km/h.

The sprint through Kent will cut 20 minutes off the London-to-Paris schedule, bringing the journey time down to just 2 hours 35 minutes. In 2007 the huge tunnelling operation and civils...