In article , R.C. Payne
writes
1) All platforms at which the trains call must be secure zones, will
the only entry to the platform through security.
[...]
2) Trains through the tunnel must meet very stringent safety
requirements. Probably the most awkward of these is the need to be
able to didvide the train to use part of the train to remove passengers
so that a disabled and dangerous half-set can be abandonned in the
tunnel, and the passengers can be evacuated.
[...]
Both of these problems can only be rectified by changing the treaty
between the UK and France that allowed the tunnel to be built.

Really? You're claiming that the treaty itself carries these
requirements? As opposed to them being regulations created by the
Inter-Government Commission that dealt with the details? You surprise
me.

Can you point me at the text of the treaty?

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