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| Delays after Channel Tunnel fault | Delays after Channel Tunnel fault |
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| Five-hour delays to lorries caused by a technical fault in the Channel Tunnel have led to freight piling up along the M20 on a major holiday weekend. | Five-hour delays to lorries caused by a technical fault in the Channel Tunnel have led to freight piling up along the M20 on a major holiday weekend. |
| Police have implemented phase one of Operation Stack, which sees lorries unable to cross the Channel parking on the motorway in Kent. | Police have implemented phase one of Operation Stack, which sees lorries unable to cross the Channel parking on the motorway in Kent. |
| Passengers in about 100 cars were trapped on a train inside the tunnel for three hours after the power cut. | Passengers in about 100 cars were trapped on a train inside the tunnel for three hours after the power cut. |
| The outage followed repair work to an overhead gantry, police said. | The outage followed repair work to an overhead gantry, police said. |
| About 100 cars were trapped on a Eurotunnel train for more than three hours inside the tunnel when the power cut happened at 1030 BST. | |
| Passengers stranded | |
| Emma Collins, who was stranded with her three small children, said: "It started getting very, very, hot and I think...we were lucky, we were in one of the cars. | |
| "Some of the double-stacked vehicles, they didn't fare so well and it got very, very hot. | |
| "Three babies, I understand, were taken very poorly and they had to get a doctor on board to see to them." | |
| The rail operator said a few hundred passengers would have been on the carriages. | |
| Drivers have been warned to avoid the area and anyone without a pre-booked ticket should not travel to the tunnel. | Drivers have been warned to avoid the area and anyone without a pre-booked ticket should not travel to the tunnel. |
| Eurostar services have been delayed by about 30 minutes. | Eurostar services have been delayed by about 30 minutes. |
| Eurotunnel passenger services are delayed by three hours, and freight services by five hours, a police spokesman said. | Eurotunnel passenger services are delayed by three hours, and freight services by five hours, a police spokesman said. |
| A Eurotunnel spokesman said the power cut affected only a small part of the tunnel and services continued throughout the day but at a reduced level. | A Eurotunnel spokesman said the power cut affected only a small part of the tunnel and services continued throughout the day but at a reduced level. |
| Under phase one of Operation Stack, the coastbound M20 is closed between junctions 11 and 12, for Hythe and Cheriton. | Under phase one of Operation Stack, the coastbound M20 is closed between junctions 11 and 12, for Hythe and Cheriton. |
| All coastbound traffic must leave the motorway at junction 11 and use the A20, while lorries park between the two junctions. | All coastbound traffic must leave the motorway at junction 11 and use the A20, while lorries park between the two junctions. |