Channel Tunnel fire under control

By Cecilia Brabin | March 29, 2017

Sep 12 – A fire in the Channel Tunnel was been brought under control more than 12 hours after the blaze took hold on a freight train, paralysing rail traffic between Britain and the continent.

Eurotunnel, the company that operates the undersea rail link, said it hoped some passenger services could resume on Friday evening, but local officials in northern France thought trains would not run again until Saturday at the earliest.

No-one was killed in the fire, which turned one of the two main tunnel shafts into a smoking inferno and destroyed a train shuttle carrying lorries from Britain to France.

Sonia Legg reports.

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Channel Tunnel fire under control

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  1. Queues of lorries formed across the UK today.
  2. A van caught fire in the tunnel.
  3. The firefighters have struggled to put the fire out.
  4. 14 people were affected by the fire.
  5. A large explosion in the tunnel caused the fire.
  6. Passengers will receive full refunds.
  7. Passengers will transfer to to the ferries to return to the UK.
  8. There have been 3 previous fires in the tunnel.
  9. The tunnel has been operational for 15 years.
  10. The fire may have been started deliberately.

 

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