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Some 2,000 passengers were trapped in the tunnel under the English Channel on Friday night, many of them for hours on end, without food, drink, adequate sanitation or news.
Passengers wait to get on board the Eurostar
Some 2,000 passengers were trapped in the tunnel under the English Channel on Friday night, many of them for hours on end, without food, drink, adequate sanitation or news.
Authorities blamed for poor functioning
Politicians on both sides of the Channel have criticised the train operator -- a consortium of a British firm and the French and Belgian state networks -- for what is seen as its disastrous response to the breakdown.
Eurostar services finally commence
Packed Eurostar trains nosed gingerly out of Paris, Brussels and London on Tuesday as the embarrassed rail firm began to clear a backlog of 75,000 passengers stranded by a three-day shutdown. The normally high-speed service, seen as a triumph of European engineering, was brought shuddering to a halt on Friday night by what a British spokesman has called a fall of "fluffier" than expected snow. Thousands of passengers were at London St Pancras, Paris Gare du Nord and Brussels Midi as the first pair of trains pulled away, each filled to capacity with 750 ticket-holders who had been due to travel at the weekend. Priority will be given to passengers who were due to travel on Saturday and Sunday, while those booked to travel on Monday and Tuesday will be eligible for travel on Wednesday, a Eurostar statement said.

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