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Eurotunnel to cut jobs

Folkestone Herald fake bombs the Channel Tunnel

How Eurotunnel went so wrong

"Before the first passenger car had boarded Le Shuttle for the short trip from Folkestone to Calais, the original business plan was in tatters" says BBC...

Channel Tunnel to get a GSM-R Network

Hmm, this story's not actually that interesting.

BBC NEWS | England | Lorry fire closes Channel Tunnel

And this is why Operation Stack came into playThe operator Eurotunnel said it suspended rail services on Monday afternoon when a fire alarm went off.Lorry drivers were taken off the train in the north-running tunnel. A fire was put out about 7.5 mile...

Videos of Folkestone: SECRET TUNNELS!

Just been trawling youtube.com to see if there's any new Folkestone footage that isn't local kids beating each other up, and there is! Here's some spooky silent footage of the Victorian Channel Tunnel:This is presumably the one that was abandoned bec...

RE: Videos of Folkestone: SECRET TUNNELS!

Facinating. I've walked by that entrance many time and wondered what it was. Isn't it going the wrong way for a channel tunnel!

Secret tunnels and smugglers

Fascinating brief history of Folkestone here on the Southcliff Hotel website...

Remember: Eurotunnel is not as good as you think it is going to be

Had a nice weekend in Lille, marred on the way home by a Eurotunnel delay. We were meant to be on the 10pm train home last night, and there was a twohour delay for some reason. No explanation, just an automated message when you are queued up in your ...

Closest pub to the channel tunnel?

Just seen an ad saying the New Inn, Etchinghill is the closest pub to the channel tunnel... never thought about it that way but I suppose it is!

Eurotunnel FAIL

We were caught up in one of these once, we found the same thing, not much information going on. WE've had problems more than on ce on there, and we've not been on it a lot. It's a lovely idea, but has been a pain in practice....

100k doesn't buy you much of a home round here

Buy the thirteen-and-a-half acre Capel Battery site instead! Secret wartime tunnels up for auction... Guide price 90-100,000. Bargain!...

Wartime tunne in the hills above Folkestone sold for �144,000

BBC has more details...

UPDATE: 144,000, not 144 quid.

oh dear now Eurotunnel too

Traffic madness at Eurotunnel:Hundreds of travellers have been stuck in queues for up to two hours attempting to cross the channel via Eurotunnel.Eurotunnel has been like that for me 50% of times we've used it....

Where did my holiday go?

It's the last official day of my summer holiday as I write this, how did that happen? Harry is at nursery and we have done our cleaning tasks for the morning, and all the door handles and things are back in place after my decorating, so I am sat down...

Wychwood Music Festival, Levellers, Justin Currie Of Del Amitri, Leisure Society, Travelling Band, Epstein, Arcadian Kicks, Tunnelmental Experimental Assembly, Craig Murray, Ray Peacock, Darren Harriot, Ben Davids