Video on social media showed vacationers walking through an alternative tunnel along the 31-mile rail route between the UK and France, some with suitcases and dogs.
Meanwhile travelers in Calais was told to stay away from the terminal until 6am. on Wednesday, with photographs showing traffic jams at the shuttle terminal late Tuesday evening.
Michael Harrison from Kent one of evacuees from the train, said: “We have received on crossing at 15:50, approximately 10 minutes in the light turned off out and the train stopped.
He said they were told the engineers “needed to research issue with wheels” which “took about one and half hours for explore them and obviously find nothing.”
“There were sighs of mistrust’
He said they were “dropping things” and set off for five more minutes, but then issue happened again.
“We’ve been waiting for a couple more of hours decide what they couldn’t see problem but the train had to be evacuated to another train,” he said. — After further waiting, we left train through the emergency communication tunnel to the service tunnel.
“Then we walked about 10 minutes to the train. in front of wrecked train.
“It was the bus car that took us to Folkestone. This train then stopped because it couldn’t gain traction, presumably because it was long and had no weight. on It. There were sighs of disbelief when it was announced.
“At last we’ve arrived in Folkestone six hours after landing.
