Passengers were forced to walk through the tunnel until they boarded a new train that would take them to the terminal. “You were just walking in the abyss without knowing what was going on”
Faced with a great suffering were passengers of a train crossing the Channel Tunnel.
The train as it became known yesterday afternoon has malfunctioned and while on his way to France.
So passengers like it is reported they were stranded for about 5 hours in the tunnel and were forced to walk until they reached another train to take them, as seen in videos posted on social media.
Passengers were left stranded in the Eurotunnel after a train broke down inside.
Video shared on social media appeared to show travelers walking along the central service tunnel after their train broke down en route to France on Tuesday evening.https://t.co/Jo9nzHSzHq pic.twitter.com/GCgC8ADJoo
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A spokesman for the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle rail service said: “One train has broken down in the tunnel and we are in the process of moving them onto a new train to return to Folkestone Terminal. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.”
“The tunnel was scary”Sarah Fellows, 37, of Birmingham told PA news agency after the incident
“It was like a ‘disaster’ movie. You were just walking in the abyss without knowing what was going on. We all had to stay under the sea in this long queue.
“There was a woman crying in the tunnel, another woman having a panic attack traveling alone.”
It is noted that the Eurotunnel is a 31-mile rail tunnel connecting Folkestone in Kent to Coquelles in northern France.
With information from: BBC, The Sun, Skynews
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