What is it with U.K. rail? One would think the wrong type of snow would no longer stop an entire train line, but the snow struck again:
IT'S NOT the snow that shut down Eurostar. It's the type of snow. "Fluffy" snowflakes got through special screens and into the power cars of five trains on Friday, shorting out the engines and stranding thousands of travellers in the Channel Tunnel for hours. Service remains cut by a third, and normal service will not resume before Christmas. Some 100,000 people have had their travel plans fouled up, by the Times' count.
... Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has ordered Eurostar to get its trains running again.
Airlines are charging up to £499 to fly between London and Paris until Eurostar gets things sorted.
My question: how exactly did it snow in the Chunnel?