This article discusses the lighting of the French Terminal of the Channel Tunnel, at Coquelles near Calais, which showed some innovative approaches to lighting vehicle and public areas. Aesthetics had a major influence on some of the lighting solutions chosen, including downward lighting reflecting off an artificial lake. The site covers 700 hectares, of which the operational part covers 440 hectares, and includes: (1) tourist terminals; (2) heavy goods terminal; (3) entry area to the Channel Tunnel; (4) maintenance area; (5) security area; (6) administrative area; and (7) parking area. The covered toll and customs areas are within a 900m x 80m rectangle, and are indirectly lit by floodlights equipped with 400W metal halide lamps, with four projectors per column. Outside this area, lighting is provided by two lines of masts, 60m apart, each of which has four 400W high-pressure sodium lamps. There is no floodlighting above the main railway track. The platforms and roads are lit by 250W high-pressure sodium lamps.
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