I like the idea of building a couple of rail replacement ships!
I suspect that if things ever got so bad, it would likely be air used as a plan b. Far better geared up for large numbers of people and their luggage.
Hmm. We have had correspondence about RBSs but I don't imagine air carriers have a few jumbos lying around to look after Eurostar problems once of twice a year.
Back to the apparent queueing for the tunnel, I wonder if Eurotunnel are favouring their own traffic, perhaps egged on by police, dealing with the queues of HGVs on the motorway?
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Update from BBC
There were fresh problems earlier when a power supply fault - unrelated to Saturday's lorry fire - meant the closure of the south tunnel.
Eurostar cancelled the 14:04, 15:31, 17:04, 18:04, 18:31 and the 20:04 (all times GMT) departures from London, as well as the 16:43 and 18:43 trains from Paris, and the 15:56, 17:56 and 18:56 services from Brussels.
Passengers were also warned to expect delays of up to two hours from the time they board a running service.
Meanwhile, Eurotunnel - which operates car and lorry services - said there was a four-hour wait to board shuttles in France.
Eurotunnel's services started running again during the night after "residue smoke" was cleared from a tunnel.
The company said it expected to operate a reduced Le Shuttle timetable, with two departures every two hours from both the UK and France. Customers have been advised to check in as normal.
So that explains a lot, what a disaster.
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