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Bad weather forces 1300 Eurostar high speed train passengers evacuation from France to England tunnel

Passengers evacuated from channel tunnel as cold snap hits Europe | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 19.12.2009
Four Eurostar trains carrying more than 2,000 people were stranded between England and France as services ground to a halt in freezing conditions.

Up to 1,300 passengers from two of the trains had to be evacuated on a vehicle shuttle as winter brought transport chaos to Europe. The remaining passengers waited for carriages to be pushed out of the tunnel by a rescue train.


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