The traffic under the Channel was severely disrupted throughout the weekend by a series of incidents in the tunnel between England and the continent, but the return to normal of freight and passenger traffic is scheduled for Monday.
The circulation of Eurostar trains will again normal Monday, said Sunday night the AFP general manager of the railway company, adding that “all the tunnel will not be repaired tomorrow, but there will be parts that will be repaired and we will have more traffic facilities in the tunnel, which will allow us to have a normal service. “
The company, which finally thought to be able to convey passengers on both sides of the” Channel “after being closed for more than noon Saturday due to an outbreak of fire, was forced to remove Sunday eleven trains between London, Brussels and Paris, the incident in the tunnel being “current” settlement, according to the Eurotunnel website .
The wait for the passenger service was valued at about five o’clock in the direction Calais-Folkestone and three o’clock in the sense Folkestone-Calais, according to the message posted on the website at a time not specified.
The company asked passengers not to stand in the station if they had no reservation scheduled for the day and invited those who had been able to travel Saturday to the phone rather steps to an exchange or refund.
The new disturbances were caused by an electrical problem on a catenary, forcing Eurotunnel to close the facility for two hours on Sunday.
” Eurotunnel had another incident of infrastructure, an electricity technical incident on a catenary around 10 am, so they closed the two tunnels 10:00 to 12:00, “he told AFP the CEO of Eurostar, Nicolas Petrovic.
The flow was then taken for a few hours, at 2:45 GMT from Britain and 4:30 GMT from France
-. “Many thousands” of customers affected –
All the afternoon on Saturday and a good part of the night, the tunnel had been closed after a fire start, quickly extinguished but that paralyzed all traffic due to significant smoke.
While 400 trains – and about ten times more trucks – through the tunnel each day in both directions, many passengers remained docked on both sides of the Channel, some forced to spend the night at the hotel.
Eurostar has also estimated at “several thousand” the number of customers affected by the situation, without specifying whether additional trains were put in service to facilitate their journey.
The company evoked only Sunday morning trains “very busy” and an “limited” on its website, ensuring it would do its “best” to transport passengers who were traveling on Saturday but, preferably ., on trains “departing after 1300 GMT” Sunday
The Eurotunnel management sought to assess the damage caused by the fire the night before: experts were still present in the north tunnel under which the incident shuttle remained blocked. She hoped that the tunnel could be reopened to traffic later in the day, “perhaps even today” Sunday was hoped to management.
As soon as the smoke detectors had reported the incident Saturday to pass a truck shuttle from England to France, security systems had stopped the convoy in the tunnel on the French side for inspection.
midlife people on the shuttle had been evacuated by the service tunnel and supported the French terminal.
In November 2012, a fire on a freight shuttle had already resulted in the traffic stop the Channel for two hours. And September 11, 2008, a fire on a lorry shuttle had caused extensive damage. 650 meters from structures were damaged in the southern section of the tunnel, which had paralyzed traffic for about 30 hours. The fire was then disrupted for five months Eurostar traffic, freight trains and passenger shuttles
1/18/2015 9:50:14 p.m.. – Paris (AFP) – By Anne CHAON – © 2015 AFP
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