Eurotunnel bookings and level crossing

Title

Eurotunnel bookings and level crossing

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:04:21

Description

Four months before the Channel Tunnel (Eurostar) is due to open and bookings are already flooding in. Commercial director Christopher Garnett and Keith Petten(?) from ABTA comment. Also reports from Willsborough where a level crossing the Eurostar will pass is still manually operated. Local councillor Mike Patterson is confident the crossing will be safe but locals air their concerns about the length of time they will have to wait to cross.

Contributors

Christopher Garnett; Keith Petten(?); Mike Patterson

Keywords

Railway services; Channel tunnels; ABTA; Eurotunnel; Folkestone; Level crossings; Willsborough; Transport engineering

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