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Passengers in four-hour wait at Eurotunnel after 'incident'

00:00, 14 August 2015

updated: 15:46, 14 August 2015

Passengers are having to waiting up to four hours to use the Eurotunnel service at Folkestone, after an earlier incident.

A train stopped in the tunnel causing a backlog and subsequent delays.

Services were reduced after being forced to use just one tunnel rather than the usual two.

Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone
Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone

The issue has now been resolved, but travellers are facing an 90 minute wait for check-in, then a further four hours on the Channel Tunnel terminal.

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