It is permitted.
They don't have any.
They have 10. Five built for Eurotunnel originally, five more all-but-identical locos bought from DB Cargo Nederland.
Which is irrelevant if the power supply has failed or the knitting has gone all East Coast Main Line...
It isn't done at the point of departure at all. It is done based on the Advance Passenger Information (API) you supply to the airline, who then pass that API on to the Home Office. Sometimes you supply that API at check in (either online or at the airport desk) but, in many cases, you do not.
This is such a weird take, every mode of transport has a melt down sometime or an other, if you apply this way of thinking across the board you’d never go anywhere. And on every occasion in the last through years I’ve been through ticket, security and passport checks at St. Pancras in a max of 20 mins.
There is a problem with the Airline system then, if they are not cross -checking the API supplied information with the actual check-ins.
It IS done at St Pancras, they swipe your passport before going through French passport control.
Correct.
From the airlines perspective it’s not their problem. If you don’t show up and haven’t cancelled they still have your money. Save perhaps for unaccompanied minors they have no duty of care before you enter or after you exit the plane.
They have procedures for this. My train from Brussels a week ago was delayed two hours and quite a few people were able to leave the station despite having left Schengen and "entered the UK" (with obvious warnings that they would not be able to come back, but could rebook for free at a later time).
Is it running empty then?
When did that happen! Sounds like a backwards step to only have a power supply from one source. Or do you mean that there used to be a midpoint within the tunnel that is now "bridged" over, I've not known of any neutral sections within the tunnel but doesn't mean it's not (or was never) there.
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/from-which-grid-is-the-channel-tunnel-electrified.267201/ This thread from last year suggests the tunnel has sufficient supply at both ends, but in general use it will only be fed from one end at a time.
Whilst the Eurostar website could be (a lot) better, on occasions the train number for reservation purposes and operating purposes can be different.
Yeah this is what I've heard before, they can't both be in use at the same time unless there is a neutral section in the middle, which may be the case I'm not sure.
They were sent back to France.
It is fed at 132kV but from Sellindge Supergrid substation which has a few GW of interconnectors connected there as well as being a 400kV node so its point of common connection is as an NR AT feeder system connection.
Not quite sure what you mean by that but one tunnel was blocked by the power failure and the other was blocked by a failed shuttle train.
So the failed shuttle train didn't cause a dewirement? There were two coincidental failures?
No idea. I’m chilled out at home watching tv.
I think it’s more likely that the overheads failed and tripped the power supply for both tunnels, stranding the train in the other tunnel.
I would have a certain level of disappointment that the two running tunnels can't be independently energised/isolated.
Showing separately now, looks like batch of 3 left St Pancras and are now awaiting entry to the tunnel..1901 Paris, 1804 Amsterdam and 1934 Brussels
Considering that on a normal double track railway each line is electrically seperate, this is surely the case on a route where each track are in seperate bores.
It appears to be correct. BBC are reporting trains stuck outside the tunnel.
www.bbc.co.uk
