Eurostar


services
from
London
are
badly
disrupted
again
this
morning
after
two
trespassers
on
the
high
speed
line
in
France
lost
their
lives.
The
delays
have
been
made
worse
by
cable
thieves
near
Lille,
who
apparently
struck
early
yesterday.

Eurostar
is
warning
that
‘our
trains
are
likely
to
be
subject
to
severe
delays
and
last-minute
cancellations.
We
advise
you
to
cancel
or
postpone
your
trip.’

The
07.01
and
07.31
from
London
to
Paris
were
being
delayed
by
at
least
an
hour
this
morning,
and
the
07.56
CEST
from
Brussels,
which
was
due
in
London
at
08.57
BST,
is
not
now
expected
until
at
least
10.17.
Some
Eurostars
operating
on
the
former
Thalys
routes
between
Amsterdam,
Brussels
and
Paris
are
also
affected. 

The
fatalities
on
LGV
Nord
occurred
in
two
separate
incidents.
According
to
French
reports,
one
was
between
Lille
and
Paris,
and
the
other
was
between
Lille
and
Arras.

It
is
also
being
reported
that
the
theft
of
800m
of
copper
cable
from
various
locations
between
Lille
and
Douai
in
the
small
hours
of
Tuesday
has
affected
Eurostar
as
well
as
French
TGVs
and
other
domestic
services.

Passengers
have
been
complaining
bitterly
on
social
media,
saying
that
they
were
left
stranded
at
midnight
at
Paris
Nord
with
nowhere
to
sleep
after
three
trains
to
London
were
cancelled.
Another
earlier
service
to
London
was
delayed
by
at
least
four
hours.

The
worst
delays
in
the
history
of
Eurostar
occurred
a
few
days
before
Christmas
2009,
when
several
trains
failed
inside
the
Channel
Tunnel
during
the
night
of
18-19
December
after
fine
snow
in
France
had
penetrated
their
motors.

More
than
2000
people
were
stranded
on
four
trains
for
up
to
six
hours.
Heating
and
lighting
were
lost
on
some
of
the
trains
when
emergency
power
supplies
failed,
and
two
lorry
shuttle
trains
had
to
be
used
to
rescue
passengers
from
stalled
Eurostars.

The
incident
was
followed
by
a
major
review
of
how
Eurostar
had
dealt
with
the
problems,
and
this
report
made
21
recommendations. 

Readers’
comments

Thank
you
for
the
information
you
have
found
and
published
about
the
Eurostar
delays
on
24
June
and
today,
25
June.
The
information
coming
from
Eurostar
(what
little
information
there
is)
is
conflicting
and
muddled.
The
app
which
they
directed
us
to
yesterday
says
trains
are
cancelled
and
that
we
can
only
get
a
refund
through
the
service
we
used
to
book
the
journey;
the
Eurostar
website
keeps
bouncing
the
travel
update
screen
so
that
it
shows
only
London
to
Paris,
not
the
reverse.
My
revised
booking,
which
I
made
on
the
app,
is
not
showing
on
the
website
when
I
log
in.
There
is
no
information
about
hotels,
any
refunds
possible,
any
vouchers
for
hotels,
etc.
Given
that
it
is
Fashion
Week
in
Paris
I
and
several
others
have
found
ourselves
in
Versailles
after
a
1.5
hours-long
journey
last
night
from
Gare
du
Nord
–
when
we
were
released
at
around
20.00
hours
and
on
our
own
to
figure
out
what
to
do.
The
reason
we
are
in
Versailles
is
due
to
the
cost
of
hotels
in
Paris
–
what
few
there
started
at
270
GBP
per
night,
then
quickly
escalated
to
prices
outside
the
bounds
of
affordability.
I
am
(was)
due
back
to
London
today,
for
a
very
important
work
gathering
tonight
but
which
I
am
now
unable
to
make.
I
run
my
own
business
and
do
not
have
an
assistant
or
anyone
else
to
help
me
sort
this
out.
It’s
distressing,
and
rather
disturbing.
Eurostar
and
any
other
carrier
should
have
a
duty
of
care
to
their
passengers,
whom
they
have
absolutely
abandoned.
I
am
now
looking
at
alternative
routes
back
to
London
–
not
sure
what
else
to
do
or
when
Eurostar
will
be
running
again.

Kelly
Falconer,
Twickenham

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