TRAINS AND TUNNELS
-One hundred and sixty kilometres an hour through the Channel Tunnel is fast, but the fastest speed reached by a train was 581 kilometres an hour. A train in japan did this in 2003.
-In Hong Kong, when you go by train from the airport to the city centre, go by train from the airport to the city centre, you travel through 8 kilometres of tunnels, including one tunnels under the water
Of Victoria Harbour. You also travel over a number of bridges, including the spectacular Tsing Ma Bridge. It is one of the longest bridgest in the world , at 1,377 metres. The entire 34-kilometre journey takes just twenty-three minutes.
-When a link was built across the water between Denmark and Sweden, an island was created in the middle of the water. The island is 4 kilometres long. From Denmark, cars and trains travel the first part of the journey through aa4-kilometre tunnel to the island. Then, From the island, they go over abridge which is 7.8 kilometres long to Sweden. The link was opened in 2000