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On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:59:23 GMT, nospam@ukgateway.net (The Revd
Terence Fformby-Smythe) wrote:

>I would bloody well hope not.  Eurostar tickets should have the
>traveller's name printed on them (maybe they already do) and check-in
>staff should check the name against the traveller's travel documents
>(ditto).  Anyone on a one-way ticket without baggage should be turned
>away.  You don't want some raghead setting fire to his shoe laces half
>way through the Channel Tunnel.

If someone was to set off a small bomb in a train (any train, be it in
the Tunnel or not) it would likely only cause any injury in the coach
in which it was triggered, whereas in a plane it would be rather more
likely to set off a chain reaction ending up in structural failure and
it falling out of the sky.  For that reason, a bomb attack on the
Tunnel would be far more likely to take the form of a vehicle bomb on
a car or lorry shuttle which would be able to cause a reasonable
amount of damage to the tunnel itself (though you'd probably need a
nuke to damage it sufficiently to cause a major flood, and if one of
those was available I rather suspect they'd find somewhere else to
drop it where it would have a more serious effect).

I don't know about British-bought E* tickets, but German-issued ones
are the same as any other German "Besondere Bedingungen" (special
conditions) ticket - officially marked as not transferable, but no
name or reference number on the ticket.

Neil

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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK