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Eurotunnel breakdown 26/7/2018

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Yesterday problems began with the shuttle trains having no airco. Problems that became a waiting game of at least 5 hours on both sides if you wanted to go. Some reservations for certain ticket have been cancelled on Friday (today). It seems that the Eurostar is not affected.
 
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Groningen said:
Yesterday problems began with the shuttle trains having no airco. Problems that became a waiting game of at least 5 hours on both sides if you wanted to go. Some reservations for certain ticket have been cancelled on Friday (today). It seems that the Eurostar is not affected.
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Extremely busy day for E* in any case , special queuing systems in place at St Pancras though I think the service ran well enough. This heat has been crippling - but as I speak we have had some welcome rain.

According to our dumbed down (free) London Evening paper , passengers heard about the shuttle problems and turned up early for their booked E* trains. Hence the congestion ! ...
 
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