Eurostar Train Suspended / Channel Tunnel Train
Posted on 19. Dec, 2009 by admin in Offbeat
Channel Tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains.
London, Dec 19, 2009 – Eurostar train operation between Britain and France was suspended after after four passenger trains stranded in the Channel Tunnel Saturday morning due to wintry weather conditions.
Channel Tunnel “Le tunnel sous la Manche” in French, is a 50.5 km (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent near Dover in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover [wiki].
More than 2,000 passengers stacked and left in cars without heating, lighting and water or poorly organized evacuation some says.
Eurostar officials suspended services until Saturday but Bram Smets, Eurostar spokesman says they would operate “very limited” on Saturday and Sunday and would be back in normal schedules by Monday.
However, all the passengers on the trains that broke down inside the Channel Tunnel had been removed from the tunnel.
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