Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008 is to say, 22 May 2008) on which the Act was passed (that is to say, received royal assent) is included in the period of two months. This means that the Act came into force on 22 July 2008. Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008 The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008 (c. 5) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amends the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act 1996. Its principal provision is to allow the Office of Rail Regulation to charge the operator of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link "a fee
Channel Tunnel of opening because of drivers' difficulty setting their radios to the correct frequency (88.8 MHz). Power is delivered to the locomotives via an overhead line (catenary) at . All tunnel services run on electricity, shared equally from English and French sources. There are two sub-stations fed at 400 kV at each terminal, but in an emergency the tunnel's lighting (about 20,000 light fittings) and plant can be powered solely from either England or France. The traditional railway south of London uses a 750 V DC third rail to deliver electricity, but since the opening of High Speed 1 there is