“The impact is essentially on high-speed train traffic,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
it added.<\/p>\n
About 15 workers, including cable layers, were dispatched to solve the issue, but repairs were expected to take a good part of the day, the operator added.<\/p>\n
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Eurostar said trips would be subject to “last-minute cancellations”.\u00a0 (Pascal Rossignol: REUTERS)<\/p>\n
In Lille’s southern district of Mont-de-Terre, AFP saw workers in orange vests placing cables back along the railway.<\/p>\n
They worked to reconnected dozens of multicoloured cables one by one inside thick tubes.<\/p>\n
Contacted by AFP, the police did not immediately provide more details on the cable theft.<\/p>\n
The Eurostar website showed that six trips between London and Paris \u2014 three in each direction \u2014 were cancelled on Wednesday, while other trains were still expected to run.<\/p>\n
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Several trips between London and Paris were cancelled.\u00a0 (Reuters: Isabel Infantes)<\/p>\n
Several trips between London and Brussels were also delayed.<\/p>\n
“Due to a cable theft near Lille Europe, our trains are likely to be subject to severe delays and last-minute cancellations,” Eurostar said, advising passengers to cancel or postpone their trip free of charge.<\/p>\n
It was the second day of disruptions after “two persons struck by trains near Lille Europe” upset traffic on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
Eurostar spokeswoman Juliette Clement told AFP trains were for the moment “being redirected via secondary routes, which increases travel times”.<\/p>\n
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Eurostar travellers have been left frustrated by the two days of delays.\u00a0 (Reuters: Isabel Infantes)<\/p>\n
Several passengers took to social media platforms to vent their frustration.<\/p>\n
“My journey out was cancelled due to ‘technical difficulties’. Return now cancelled due to a fatality,” one user who appeared to be in Paris wrote on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
“My rescheduled train is cancelled again. No seats today Paris to London,” they added in a new post on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
SNCF said about 10 high-speed train trips between Lille and the French capital had also been cancelled.<\/p>\n
At the train station in Lille, 51-year-old Belgian holiday-maker Marie-Line Ponville was deeply disappointed.<\/p>\n
She and her daughter had been planning to board a ship in Marseille for a week-long cruise around the Mediterranean but look likely to miss the boat’s departure.<\/p>\n
“We can’t even stay here as we packed our bags for somewhere sunny. I think we will just cancel and go home,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
she said.<\/p>\n
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