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Last Updated: Saturday, 4 August 2007, 09:51 GMT 10:51 UK
Trains running after tunnel fault
Eurotunnel train
Passengers were trapped on trains for up to six hours
Eurotunnel services have returned to normal after an electrical fault in the Channel Tunnel left 500 people stuck inside for four hours.

Both passenger and freight shuttles are now running on time from the Folkestone terminal in Kent.

Operation Stack - where queuing freight traffic is parked on the M20 - was lifted by Kent Police at 0150 BST.

A loss of power in an overhead gantry left a train carrying 130 cars stuck at the French end of the tunnel on Friday.

It happened at about 1030 BST, and passengers were on the train for six hours in total, four of those inside the tunnel.

It eventually had to be pulled out by another train.

Eurotunnel's John Keefe said: "Everything is working. Both the tunnels are now fully operational."


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