Sarkozy demande des comptes à Eurostar - Actualité Internationale - Europe - Radio Europe1. INTEMPÉRIES : Le trafic des trains Eurostar perturbé, actualité Société : Le Point. Sophie Chaouche: Le trafic des trains Euros... Jane Easton O'Keeffe: @BarbaraStopher..my poor c... Another Train Crisis Hits Eurostar. By Andrea Rothman (Bloomberg) — Eurostar Group Ltd. suspended services today after a train broke down in the Channel Tunnel, echoing a series of failures last month that crippled the company's locomotives and left 40,000 passengers stranded. A train carrying 236 people lost traction in the tunnel this morning after encountering cold weather in northern France while en route from Brussels to London, said Fabienne Lissak, a spokeswoman for tunnel operator Groupe Eurotunnel SA.
Two southbound trains and a northbound one were brought to a standstill after the failure and were later turned back from the tunnel to avoid any repetition of last month's breakdowns, in which higher temperatures encountered underground melted snow sucked in by Eurostar locomotives, shorting electrical circuits. "The trains were at a standstill for two or three hours and were turned back as a precaution," Eurostar spokesman Richard Holligan said in a telephone interview. High performance access to file storage Remember the five Eurostar trains that broke down in the channel tunnel because snow got into the electrics and melted? A train has got stuck in the tunnel again. Eurostar had claimed its engineers had fixed the problem by improving the shielding of the electronics from snow-laden air coming in through the engine inlet vents.
This may not have been sufficently well done. It's reported that around 240 luckless passengers on a London-bound Eurostar train from Brussels, that passed through a snowstorm in northern France, got stuck in the tunnel this morning when it broke down again around 9am. Eurostar is not saying why it broke down, with on-board signalling problems suggested by one source. It may well be though that it was the wrong sort of snow - again. After a two-hour wait a Eurotunnel rescue locomotive towed the stricken Eurostar to Ashford from where the passengers were taken to London on a different train.
Broadcast Yourself. EurostarNews's Channel. Q&A with Eurostar's Commercial Director Nick Mercer 07.01.10. Paul Nezandonyi: RT @little_break Q&A with... Eurostar : bloqué 2 heures dans le tunnel sous la Manche. Liens commerciaux Eurostar : bloqué 2 heures dans le tunnel sous la MancheUn Eurostar Bruxelles-Londres avec 260 passagers à bord, ce matin, a été bloqué pendant plus de deux heures dans le tunnel sous la Manche, il semble pour une panne locomotive. Les passagers ont été emmenés à Ashford et transférés via un autre train pour terminer leur voyage vers Londres.
Hier, la compagnie de train Eurostar, qui relie Londres à Bruxelles et à Paris, a annoncé par un communiqué de presse sur son site, que la neige au Royaume-Uni serait susceptible d'entraîner de graves retards et des annulations de dernière minute. Elle a demandé à tous les passagers de reporter leur voyage si celui-ci n'était pas strictement nécessaire et a prévu pour les clients qui ont annulé leur voyage, la possibilité de changer leur billet pour un autre jour. Flash actu : Un nouvel Eurostar bloqué dans le Tunnel sous la Manche Un nouvel Eurostar bloqué dans le Tunnel.