![]() ![]() Great writers of fantasy and sci-fi such as Isaac Asimov and Steven Erikson have observed the close connection between historical literature and fantasy, and it is certainly true that really great historical fiction can trigger the same vibe as genre fiction. It took six years for 13,000 workers to build the 31.4 mile tunnel, 23.5 miles of which run undersea, making it the longest of its kind in the world. English Passengers is a historical novel, containing no elements of science fiction or fantasy. It had been mooted for more than 180 years before British and French workers broke ground and began digging toward each other in 1988. The Channel Tunnel revolutionized travel between the UK and mainland Europe when it opened in May 1994, making the journey far faster than the equivalent ferry route. ![]() “Following yesterday’s incident, we are now back to running normal services,” it tweeted.ĬNN has contacted Eurotunnel for further comment on the incident. ![]() On Wednesday morning, the company said trains were running again. “Due to the earlier train fault, we advise you not to travel to the terminal tonight,” Eurotunnel said in a separate tweet late Tuesday. The English Traveller is a seventeenth-century tragicomedy in five acts written by Thomas Heywood, and named as such by the playwright. The issue also had knock-on effects on later services. “I was panicking at one point and Border Force told us the tunnel had been evacuated one other time in the last 17 years, not recently,” she said. Flying without wings: The world's fastest trains ![]()
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