Eurotunnel back on track after power restored to services

Published on Saturday 4 August 2007 12:34

EUROTUNNEL services are expected to return to normal today after a power cut left up to 500 passengers stranded in the Channel Tunnel.

The passengers were trapped on a train inside the tunnel for four hours a few kilometres from the French end of the tunnel at 10am yesterday after loss of power in overhead wires.

The train was later pulled out by another train. No-one was injured.

One passenger said she was trapped for over six hours with her family on the service from Folkestone to Calais.

Emma Collins said she and her three young children aged six, four, and 11 months had been stuck in their car.

Miss Collins said her children had coped well.

"They were fine, they were really well behaved. And luckily they could get out of the car and move around. But it did start getting very hot.

Three babies, I understand, were taken very poorly. They had to get a doctor on board to see to them."

She said that passengers had been told little about their situation.

"It was a long time before we got any information at all and it really seemed they didn't know what was happening.

"First of all they said the power supply, then they said the train broke down."