Jan 22nd, 2011 at 3:30PM:
This morning, Dubai owned P&O ferries took delivery of the Spirit of Britain - one of the largest ferries in the world. The vessel will operate on the Dover-Calais channel route, and is capable of transporting 2000 passengers.
Compared to the ferries of the past, this new vessel is more cruise ship than ferry - with an upscale shopping center, private lounge, shower facilities, free ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Spirit of Britain super-ferry enters service on the busy Dover-Calais route
Jan 22nd, 2011 at 3:30PM:
This morning, Dubai owned P&O ferries took delivery of the Spirit of Britain - one of the largest ferries in the world. The vessel will operate on the Dover-Calais channel route, and is capable of transporting 2000 passengers.
Compared to the ferries of the past, this new vessel is more cruise ship than ferry - with an upscale shopping center, private lounge, shower facilities, free ...Eurostar to suspend Channel train service indefinitely
Dec 21st, 2009 at 2:00PM: Most people think "airlines" when the topic turns to the misery of holiday travel. Well, the trains are getting in on the action now. European railway Eurostar's Channel Tunnel train, which connects England and France, is being shut down indefinitely. It's a natural side-effect of having more than 2,000 passengers trapped inside the tunnel for several hours because of technical glitches.
...Channel tunnel to remain closed through the weekend
Dec 20th, 2009 at 11:30AM: The Channel Tunnel between France and England will remain closed throughout the weekend as unseasonably cold weather continues to cause travel headaches across northwestern Europe. More than two thousand passengers were stranded in the Channel Tunnel for up to 16 hours on Friday when five Eurostar trains had electrical malfunctions. Thousands more were stuck on either side of the tunnel with no ...Thousands trapped in Channel Tunnel
Dec 19th, 2009 at 8:30AM: More than two thousand passengers were trapped in the Channel Tunnel last night when unusually cold weather in northern France made four Eurostar trains break down at the same time. Four trains coming from Brussels and Paris entered the tunnel between France and England and promptly broke down because of the temperature change between the cold air in France and the warm air inside the tunnel. ...Want to illegally enter the UK? Hide under a border police bus!
Aug 4th, 2009 at 2:30PM: An illegal immigrant managed to sneak into the United Kingdom last week by hiding under a bus taking the channel tunnel.
This probably happens 100's of times a week, and most of the immigrants get caught. What made this story interesting was not that this illegal alien picked a bus, but what the bus was being used for.
Instead of a bus full of tourists heading back home, this guy managed to ...The World's Longest Tunnels
Jun 18th, 2007 at 7:00AM: The Gotthard Base Tunnel (map), a railway tunnel in Switzerland, isn't complete yet, but in 2015 -- after 22 years of construction -- it will be the longest transportation tunnel in the world, running 35 miles through the Swiss Alps. It will eventually cut the travel time between Zürich and Milan from 3.5 hours to 2.5. Four tunnel boring machines are working the job: "2 southbound from Amsteg ...Eurostar Rolls On
Dec 30th, 2006 at 12:02PM: For those of you fellow train lovers, here's a bit of news. The awesome London-to-Paris Chunnel train, the Eurostar, is moving next year from its home at Waterloo station to the St. Pancras station.
This train is nothing to sneeze at: central London to central Paris in under 3 hours, in quiet, smooth high-speed (186 mph max speed!) luxury, through the Chunnel, for as little as 29.50 pounds ...
