Channel Tunnel Suspended

[Griff]

Breaking news over on the BBC news site

Nothing major apparently. "Kent police said a CO2 sensor had been triggered on a freight train, setting off an emergency procedure in which all people are evacuated. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8684297.stm

[Hyronymus]

Better that then no detection and a fire developping while transport continues.

[Geo Ghost]

Eurostar and Channel Tunnel don't appear to be having a good few months.
Only lucky break they've got is when air traffic was grounded.

[Illegal_Alien]

I think it a better idea to make a topic when its working perfectly...

[Kevo00]

Eurostar and Channel Tunnel don't appear to be having a good few months.
Only lucky break they've got is when air traffic was grounded.

Well, we know the incident at Christmas was down to poor emergency preparation, so perhaps this is an improvement. Although the media won't report it that way.

[Dave]

Things happen like this all the time on the railway - but since Christmas the media have gone mental over the Chunnel.

[Geo Ghost]

This is true. Hope they don't have any more difficulties though otherwise people might lose faith in the service provided.
Though they seem to recover pretty well after any problems. I'll give 'em that

Don't think the media ever reports anything in the right way. Only their way it often seems heh.
Was quite surprised how during the incident over winter the media seemed to rip into Channel Tunnel and Eurostar quite a bit. But in interviews most people seemed fairly alright and joked about it a bit.

[atomicdanny]

Eurostar and Channel Tunnel don't appear to be having a good few months.
Only lucky break they've got is when air traffic was grounded.

Well, we know the incident at Christmas was down to poor emergency preparation, so perhaps this is an improvement. Although the media won't report it that way.

The media only reports the worst about the "Death Trap" railways (or is that just the Daily Mail?)

[JamieLei]

Eurostar and Channel Tunnel don't appear to be having a good few months.
Only lucky break they've got is when air traffic was grounded.

Well, we know the incident at Christmas was down to poor emergency preparation, so perhaps this is an improvement. Although the media won't report it that way.

The media only reports the worst about the "Death Trap" railways (or is that just the Daily Mail?)

The Daily Mail actually exploded with fury when the patriotic "English, Welsh and Scottish Railway" became "Deutsch Bahn Schenker"! Somehow they manage to weasel immigration into everything!

[Dave]

The Daily Mail actually exploded with fury when the patriotic "English, Welsh and Scottish Railway" became "Deutsch Bahn Schenker"! Somehow they manage to weasel immigration into everything!

Which is ironic, since the original owners of EWS were... Canadian.

[Geo Ghost]

Think almost all media groups are like that. Always reporting the worst and the 'horrors of everyday life'.
I trust very little of what I hear from any of them.

Wonder how mad it will get with BA staff go back on strike.

[orudge]

The Daily Mail actually exploded with fury when the patriotic "English, Welsh and Scottish Railway" became "Deutsch Bahn Schenker"! Somehow they manage to weasel immigration into everything!

How does that involve immigration, though? At least on their web site, I can only see two articles relating to EWS and DB, and the main one is titled Germans to take control of Queen's royal train, and has nothing to do with immigration. Of course, it could be there was an article or comment section in the paper, but I haven't seen that as (believe it or not) I don't tend to read the Daily Mail.

[JamieLei]

The Daily Mail actually exploded with fury when the patriotic "English, Welsh and Scottish Railway" became "Deutsch Bahn Schenker"! Somehow they manage to weasel immigration into everything!

How does that involve immigration, though? At least on their web site, I can only see two articles relating to EWS and DB, and the main one is titled Germans to take control of Queen's royal train, and has nothing to do with immigration. Of course, it could be there was an article or comment section in the paper, but I haven't seen that as (believe it or not) I don't tend to read the Daily Mail.

Oh I was just being silly - lumping anything to do with foreigners with immigration

[SD89MAC]

The Daily Mail actually exploded with fury when the patriotic "English, Welsh and Scottish Railway" became "Deutsch Bahn Schenker"! Somehow they manage to weasel immigration into everything!

Which is ironic, since the original owners of EWS were... Canadian.

I thought EWS was owned by Americans, which would make it even more ironic.

[welshdragon]

I thought EWS was owned by Americans, which would make it even more ironic.

Nope

EWS was established by a consortium led by Wisconsin Central Ltd in 1996. Canadian National bought Wisconsin Central in 2001, and held approximately 30% of the company.

[Kevo00]

Wisconsin Central, before it was bought out by CN, was American. Obviously.

Either way, it has always been foreign owned, ever since BR sold it to a nice man called Ed Burkhardt (may have spelled it wrong). The media always like a scare story about 'British' companies being foreign owned because they love stories about something called 'Britain's industrial base' being run down. Witness the furore over Cadbury being bought by Kraft, or even better, Rover being bought by BMW in 1994 (if its ze Germans, that's even worse for our right wing media). They think this shows that we are losing control of our economy and that our economy is irreversibly declining, when it actually shows the opposite, that Britain is a good place to do business.

Of course, what these idiots don't understand is that its not who owns it that is important, but how efficiently they run it, which matters for the economy. Sadly journalists lack the analysis skills to realise this.

[Doorslammer]

[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... train.html]

How dare those Jerries take control of the train used by the House formerly known as Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Erm, wait...

[audigex]

What will they do if they were sold to the Italians, since they make the trains run on time? (Even though they didn't, whatever)