The headline above is from Charlemagne’s notebook (a blog by an Economist contributor). Similarly Train breaks down: Continent cut off from the Times.
Quite in the spirit of the more well known apocryphal headline “Fog in Channel. Continent isolated” attributed to the London “Times” in the early 20th century. Let’s wish Eurostar a more successful 2010!
I had read similar news on the International Herald Tribune.
Some of my British acquaintances had traveled to Britain via channel. My thoughts are with them.