Wednesday, July 9, 2014

382 British subway passengers trapped in tunnel

Hundreds of subway passengers Eurotunnel from England to France yesterday stranded in the Channel Tunnel train they were traveling due to power failures.
The Daily Mail newspaper reported on Monday (7/7), hundreds of passengers were waiting patiently to be picked up.
Many of them even take pictures selfie in the tunnel before they picked up a car to be evacuated.
A total of 382 passengers and four dogs eventually evacuated to the terminal in Calais, France, to wait for the car pool.
Eurostar train company serving the route was forced to cancel a scheduled departure time in four days and gave the announcement delay. They even advise passengers not to travel if their journey was not essential.
The train finally arrived from London, England, to Lille, France, in five hours due to power failures. The train usually only take 90 minutes.
The train could not continue traveling around 07.30 when the new quarter to take a trip from Folkestone, England.
About 20 minutes later the passengers were told to leave the train and walk redirected to another tunnel.
By the company that the passenger train equipped with a pen, books, cards, torches, fans, water, and wet wipes.
“Suddenly I heard the sound of a collision., But such is not coming from the train. During the 20 minutes the train stopped and we do not know what happened,” said a passenger named Richard Byron.

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