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Reordering/Restructuring
After this edit comment
[1] I've looked at the article and I think would benefit from a restructure. There's some information in the summary that's not in the main body, and the 'causes' section doesn't really deal with this (as they are currently unknown), but deals with a number of things - the investigation, eye witness accounts. I propose a chronological ordering:
The Fire
Timeline
Injuries
Eyewitness accounts
Aftermath
Tunnel closure
Investigation
And then re-write the lead to summarize the article.
I'll work on this in user space, and come back and put a link here when I'm ready for someone to look at it.
Quote: The temperature in the tunnel was described as "very hot".[7][9]
Since this is a fire, I think we all know it was "very hot". What's the point in that line?
Trivran (
talk) 20:06, 12 September 2011 (UTC)reply
Since all fires do not have the same temperture, I'd say that the sources (7) and (9) are saying this fire is hotter than most. There may be some estimates of temperature in the report, but even then quoting (say) 1000K or 500deg C would not help people that do not have experiance of high tempertures.
Edgepedia (
talk) 06:05, 13 September 2011 (UTC)reply
0008 BST
"Channel train services resuming". Trend. 13 September 2008. Archived from
the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 4 September 2014. The first train to run through the Channel Tunnel since its closure following a fire was scheduled to make its journey early on Saturday, reported BBC. The freight train was due to leave Dollands Moor marshalling yard near Folkestone, at 0008 BST.
So it is re-quoting the BBC's reporting of the intention for the first freight train to depart at 0008 BST. —
Sladen (
talk) 19:30, 4 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Number of fires
The introduction to the section on fires say that there have been 3 inside the tunnel, then goes on to list 6 incidents, 5 of which appear to have occurred inside the tunnel.
Cowplum (
talk) 08:22, 28 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Repair costs - 60 million what, and does it matter?
We say that the repair costs were (or were estimated to be) both £60M and €60M. Are these both right, or only one, and which, and does it matter at all (that is, if they are meant to be the same then was the exchange rate then different enough to matter?) So many trivial questions ... sorry ... does anyone know? Cheers
DBaK (
talk) 09:25, 6 January 2022 (UTC)reply