December 14th, 2010 
Tushar Mathur We’re getting to the time of year again where a colleague of mine spends her time planning for her mammoth return home to see her family across the channel. She’s frantically packing already, making sure that she has all of the expensive essentials needed for the trip … no not presents for the family Christmas when she gets there, but for the trip itself!
After two years of being subject to queues and strikes at ferry terminals she was, last year, tempted by the underwater, rather than overwater journey and so signed up for her first ever sub-channel crossing. Regrettably, she then found herself caught up in the under channel equivalent of ‘leaves on the line’ with the unfortunate pre-Christmas cold spell that arrived around mid-December, causing the breakdowns of trains in the tunnel, which then caused chaos both underground: with passengers being shuttled off the frozen trains; and over-ground at the terminals: with tailbacks of transport well into the A20 at Dover.
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