Channel Tunnel (now probably not) broken

[wessie]

Channel tunnel power outage disrupts thousands of journeys

Engineers still struggling to restore full rail service on Tuesday evening as car passengers face seven-hour delays

www.theguardian.com

all services, Eurostar and Le Shuttle currently suspended

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Title edited, to protect those of a nervous disposition in June.

Richard

 

[Robbi]

Looks like the tunnel is shut due to power failure

 

[wessie]

French electrons on strike

 

[Engineer]

It is, no trains today in either direction

 

[zoltan]

Major drama and feel sorry for me, Sky producer interview: " This is my second day of travel from the US...with 2 cats. Now I am stuck with no toilet or coffee facilities. "They" don't tell us anything. It is devastating...
No fucks given.

 

[Engineer]

Stuff goes wrong, it's just a fact of life - get used to it.

 

[KMD]

Stuff goes wrong, it's just a fact of life - get used to it.

True, but Eurotunnel are bad at keeping customers informed. The last two times I’ve been through we’ve had delays, and no explanation from staff even if you ask them. Last time we got to the terminal early enough to book onto an earlier train, so we took the option, went through controls, and sat in a queue while three time slots came and went.

 

[Monsieur]

Some good friends stuck on the French side yesterday for several hours. Luckily they had a few bottles of a decent red to stop them getting too dehydrated.
Their issue wasn’t with the breakdowns, that happens, but rather with the total lack of any communication from Eurostar. A couple of ‘trains are all fecked, we’re trying our best to sort it out’ messages might have been welcomed.

Of course it wasn’t all caused by a dastardly hack from some FSB nerds in downtown Minsk…

 

[er-minio]

True, but Eurotunnel are bad at keeping customers informed.

This is true.

I also have the apps (both LeShuttle and Eurostar) as I travel a fair bit across, and they could leverage notifications a bit better on those.

 

[Monsieur]

I’ve got several Eurostar train trips booked over the next few months, let’s hope their IT and wiring is fixed by then!

 

[Wapping]

 

[er-minio]

let’s hope their IT and wiring is fixed by then!

it will.
There is snags here and there. Over a ton of crossings, I only actually got completely stuck once in almost 20 years. I'd say acceptable.

 

[Davey B]

We are travelling today...now actually. The tunnel set up is very good at sorting out a backlog. It was 6hrs backlog earlier today. We arrived at 1152 for a 1352 crossing...got bumped onto a 1252 crossing thus saving an hours travelling and are in a queue of about 12 others waiting to drive onto the train. Happy days.

 

[JJH]

Hope it wasn’t a leak that caused the problem. JJH

 

[zoltan]

Hope it wasn’t a leak that caused the problem. JJH

Would make a fantastic disaster film…survival of the fittest.

 

[wessie]

Hope it wasn’t a leak that caused the problem. JJH

are you suggesting one of att's relatives was working in the tunnel and pissed on a poorly sealed junction box?

 

[Engineer]

True, but Eurotunnel are bad at keeping customers informed. The last two times I’ve been through we’ve had delays, and no explanation from staff even if you ask them. Last time we got to the terminal early enough to book onto an earlier train, so we took the option, went through controls, and sat in a queue while three time slots came and went.

Agreed, but often all you can say is 'it's broken and will be fixed as soon as possible' - because with these technical issues it will take time to find exactly what's happened before they can even start to predict when it will be working again.

 

[stever1]

Personally I find Le Shuttle usually does a good job. I usually get put on an earlier train .
Things do go wrong occasionally and we just have to accept it with good grace.

 

[Davey B]

Personally I find Le Shuttle usually does a good job. I usually get put on an earlier train .
Things do go wrong occasionally and we just have to accept it with good grace.

Absolutely. 2 or 3 well publicised events like these and Le Shuttle is shit...when in reality...they make up perhaps 1% of the years crossings...so 99% are good....I'd have been chuffed to bits if I'd ever got a 99% exam result...

 

[digby]

Major drama and feel sorry for me, Sky producer interview: " This is my second day of travel from the US...with 2 cats. Now I am stuck with no toilet or coffee facilities. "They" don't tell us anything. It is devastating...
No fucks given.

Are u American ?