Tunnel services 'return to normal'

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The passengers were trapped on a train inside the tunnel for four hours just a couple of kilometres from the French end of the tunnel after a loss of power in an overhead wire gantry.

The train was later pulled out by another train. No-one was injured.

One passenger said she was trapped for more than six hours with her family on the service from Folkestone to Calais.

Emma Collins said that she and her three young children aged six, four and 11 months had been stuck in their car.

Miss Collins said her children had coped well with the situation.

"They were fine, they were really well behaved. And luckily they could get out of the car and move around. But it did start getting very very hot."

She added: "It got very, very hot and three babies I understand, were taken very poorly. They had to get a doctor on board to see to them."

She said that passengers had been told frustratingly little about their situation.

"It was a long time before we got any information at all and it really seemed they didn't know what was happening. First of all they said the power supply, then they said the train broke down."