Our recent European vacation had us start in London for a few days, with onward travel to the Continent. Wouldn’t you know it that on our first day, Eurostar had the tunnel fire and shut down service.
On May 6, 1994, Queen Elizabeth II and French president François Mitterrand held a ceremony opening the English Channel tunnel, or "Chunnel." Elizabeth rode a train through the Chunnel heading to ...
In defense of the Chunnel train [“Chunnel Train? Never Again,” Letters, Oct. 19]: The ferry across the English Channel is fun, but if you want to get from London to Paris as easily as possible, the ...
A Eurostar train was stranded in the Channel tunnel for more than an hour this morning, The Guardian is reporting. Several trains were canceled because of freezing temperatures, and the company was ...
I traveled from London to Paris by underwater train through the "Chunnel" (Channel Tunnel). Both stations were easy to navigate, and the check-in and boarding processes were quick and easy. My whole ...
Similar fire in 1996 caused $70 million worth of damage. A major fire in the Channel tunnel closed the Anglo-French rail link on Thursday afternoon, 11 September. Thirty two passengers in a burning ...
Virgin Trains may be able to operate train service through the “Chunnel” that links the U.K. with continental Europe as early as 2030, after the U.K. regulator approved its application to share a ...
About 600 passengers were trapped on a London-to-Paris Eurostar train for about five hours, and some broke windows in the cars to get fresh air, police and passengers said Saturday. The train, which ...
With the new 46 miles of high-speed track on the British side, the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel can now whisk you from London to Paris in 2 hours, 35 minutes, and London to Brussels in 2 ...
About 600 passengers were trapped on a London-to-Paris Eurostar train for more than five hours, and some broke windows in the cars to get fresh air, police and passengers said Saturday. The train, ...