In View Of The Present Terrorist Fears, How Scary Would This Have Been?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2683084/Hundreds-Eurostar-passengers-evacuated-train-breaks-Channel-Tunnel.html

[sandyRoe]

It would have been scary enough to make some appreciate the benefits of a holiday in somewhere like Skegness.

[Peter Pedant]

blowing up the euro tunnel is high on the list of terrorist things-to-do when in London

[Gromit]

Trains break down all the time. The people in the photos do not look scared.

Didn't know the Channel Tunnel was in London.

[Zeuhl]

The UK train operators are already running their own terror campaign targeting the travelling public

it's called Too High Prices and Insufficient Seats

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// The people in the photos do not look scared. ///

Nether did they in the photos of the people in the tube, during the WW2 blitz.

It's called "the British stiff upper lip".

[Zeuhl]

^
That can't be it aog

Only 35% of Eurostar passengers are British

30% are French
6% Belgian
29% Other

[Svejk]

its the anniversary today.

[mushroom25]

//Only 35% of Eurostar passengers are British //

that's not a "Eurostar" train featured, but a "Eurotunnel shuttle" (not the same thing).

do you have a demographic for the shuttles?

[DTCwordfan]

What % are a) Romanian, b) Bulgarian c) Syrian and, especially for AOG, what % are Muslim?

[DTCwordfan]

Passengers trapped on board broken-down Eurostar trains have been speaking of their anger.

One was quoted as saying, "I've been hanging underneath the back of this Lorry now for 16 effing hours!"

[mushroom25]

//Passengers trapped on board broken-down Eurostar trains have been speaking of their anger. //

when did Eurostar begin carrying lorries? or cars?

[royfromaus]

On a scale of 1 to 100

1

[Zeuhl]

/the demographics don't matter/

very good divebuddy lol

quite right mushroom, I had foolishly assumed the reference to 'eurostar passengers evacuated' in the Daily Wail link was actually accurate: silly me.

As far as i know the operators of le shuttle don't provide a breakdown by nationality. Whether it differs significantly from eurostar i don't know.

[naomi24]

It's happened before - but in the current climate I imagine the passengers were told the reason for the problem fairly quickly. The operators wouldn't want a panic on their hands.