India, Dec. 31 -- As the world nears the new year eve, people have embraced the holiday season with plans spanning from parties to vacations. The new year season however did not come easy for many Europeans as a major power outage and a stuck train interrupted rail services through the undersea Channel Tunnel connecting the United Kingdom and continental Europe on Tuesday.

Eurostar, a railway service that runs passenger trains connecting leading European destinations like London and Paris among others on Tuesday blamed overhead power supply issues in the Channel Tunnel. The outage made way to a failure aboard a train which is operated by LeShuttle, that transports vehicles and their passengers between the ports of Calais, France, and Fol...