91.   Co-chairman Patrick Ponsolle also appealed for financial support from the French and British governments and said Eurotunnel would try to increase fees from railway companies.

92.   Engineers from the French state railway company SNCF said they still did not know the cause of the derailment, but added they had found a broken rail.

93.   Engineers from the French state railway company SNCF used two cranes to hoist the carriages.

94.   Engineers from the French state railway company SNCF brought in two cranes to try to put the train back on the tracks.

95.   Eurotunnel complained that the three railway companies had not told it that delays such as those announced late on Wednesday were possible.

96.   Experts from the French state railway company were assessing damage to the train to see if it could be put back on the tracks.

97.   Eurostar is a venture owned jointly by the French, Belgian and British railway companies, which pays Eurotunnel to allow its trains to use the Channel tunnel.

98.   The railway company RENFE said the passengers could not be offered alternative road transport because of the bad weather.

99.   The railway company said the train was probably going too fast.

100.   The rail unions spearheaded the strikes with a protest over a five-year restructing plan for the state-owned SNCF railway company.