The history of the Eurostar brand can be traced to the choice in 1986 of a rail tunnel to provide a cross-channel link between Britain and France. A previous attempt to construct a tunnel between the two nations had begun in 1974 but was quickly aborted. Construction began afresh in 1988. Eurotunnel was created to manage and own the tunnel, which was finished in 1993, the official opening taking place on 6 May 1994. In addition to the tunnel’s shuttle trains carrying cars and lorries between Folkestone and Calais, the tunnel opened the possibility of through passenger and freight train services between places further afield. British Rail and France’s SNCF contracted with Eurotunnel to use half the tunnel’s capacity for this purpose. On 20 June 1993, the first Eurostar test train travelled through the tunnel to the UK. Various technical difficulties in running the new trains on British tracks were quickly overcome. We celebrate this feat of engineering with an AI Image of the Eurostar Train…