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Channel Tunnel Shuttle wagons
The wagons of the Channel Tunnel's Shuttles: enclosed single- and double-deck carriers for cars and coaches, open lattice carriers for lorries, and the loaders that vehicles drive through to board. They are built to a larger gauge than either country's railways, so they never leave the tunnel and its terminals.
Drawing to come
The Shuttles run only through the Channel Tunnel and its two terminals. The Channel Tunnel →
- Type
- Vehicle-carrying wagons: car, coach and lorry Shuttles
- In service
- since 1994
- Operators
- LeShuttle
- Formation
- Car and coach Shuttle: about 2,546 ft (776 m), 24 carriers (12 single-deck, 12 double-deck) and 4 loaders, a Class 9 at each end. Lorry Shuttle: 2,625 ft (800 m), 32 carriers, 3 loaders and a club car
- Trains in fleet
- 9 car and coach Shuttles and 15 lorry Shuttles
- Fleets
- LeShuttle: 9 car and coach Shuttles and 15 lorry Shuttles
- Profile
- main-line
- Total capacity
- Up to 120 cars and 12 coaches on a car and coach Shuttle
- Status
- In service with LeShuttle.
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Sources
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- LeShuttle Wikipedia, read 29 October 2026the lengths, carriers and loaders, capacity, fleet
- Navette Eurotunnel French Wikipedia, read 27 October 20262,625 ft (800 m) and 18 lorry Shuttles (the cross-check)
- Eurotunnel Tri-Bo locomotives Kent Rail (enthusiast site), read 27 October 2026the loaders, the club car, the single-deck carriers at the front
unverified
- Not drawn yet: the Shuttle drawings are being redrawn from photographs before they go on the site (set CT, Kyle, 29 October 2026)
- The car Shuttle's length: about 2,546 ft (776 m; English Wikipedia) or 2,625 ft (800 m; French Wikipedia); 2,546 ft (776 m) is used until a Getlink document settles it
- The lorry Shuttle's carriers: 31 or 32 (Wikipedia); 32 is used until a Getlink document settles it; French Wikipedia gives 18 lorry Shuttles, not 15
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