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  We will have seen the news last night with the Eurostar passengers queing round the block in London, it took 15 minutes for the BBC reporter to walk the length of it. People in the queue had been queing for 5 hours in the street in freezing conditions. I wouldnt be able to manage to do that myself. Terrible. As they used to say in the old days...its a terrible way to run a railroad!
  
  Crowds got very fractious waiting at the Paris end and the Gendarmerie had to be called. Its not a comfortable place to wait at the Paris end...you are just left standing there for ever trying to get into the Eurostar section itself, and thats when its all working right. Ive been on the train many times...fortunately without a hitch.
  
  The only place thats able to stay open is Dover and the Ferries. Although is the message getting out? as one passenger on the news last night interviewed by the reporter while standing in the aforementioned queue, said he had tried the ferries and hovercraft and they were full. He may have been telling little porkie pies...as there hasnt been a hovercraft for years!
  
  But maybe the ferry companies ought to flag up their operation a bit more at times like these so that people see them as an option.
  
  Although during the ash crises they did handle over a quarter of a million extra passengers...the equivalent of 600 Boeing 747's.

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