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Travellers stranded at St Pancras station in London on Tuesday [AFP]\u2018Disgusted, disheartened\u2019<\/p>\nEurostar services between London and Europe disrupted as Channel Tunnel undergoes \u2018technical intervention\u2019.<\/p>\n
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Power problems and a stuck train interrupted rail traffic flowing through the undersea tunnel connecting the UK to continental Europe with passenger train operator Eurostar indefinitely suspending its services during the busy holiday period.<\/p>\n
Passengers were left scrambling on Tuesday to find alternatives after the operator postponed all train travel between London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere was a power supply problem in the Channel Tunnel followed by a shuttle train coming to a halt inside,\u201d a Eurostar spokesperson said. \u201cAll journeys to and from London are suspended until further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Channel Tunnel\u2019s operator, Eurotunnel, said in a separate statement that the power supply problem started in part of the tunnel, affecting both passenger and vehicle travel by rail in both directions.<\/p>\n
Traffic is expected to resume gradually on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0\u201cA technical intervention is required, which is currently underway. Our teams are working to restore the situation as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a \u2060statement on its website at 15:30 GMT, Eurostar warned passengers that the power fault was persisting.<\/p>\n
Travellers stranded at St Pancras station in London on Tuesday [AFP]\u2018Disgusted, disheartened\u2019<\/p>\n
Crowds of stranded travellers, many with suitcases, swelled at London\u2019s St Pancras station and at Gare du Nord in Paris as the notification went out \u2013 their end-of-year holiday plans were being thrown into chaos.<\/p>\n
At Gare du Nord station, Jamie and Issy Gill scrambled to find a flight back to the UK after their Eurostar train to London was cancelled, desperate to be reunited with their baby boy after a getaway in the French capital.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came for my 30th birthday,\u201d Issy Gill said, wiping away tears.<\/p>\n
Other frustrated passengers tried to book plane or bus tickets.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m disgusted, disheartened,\u201d said Sarah Omouri, a French traveller whose plans to celebrate the New Year in London were dashed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been maybe a year since we\u2019ve had a vacation. We were made to get on the train, to get off, get on again, and get off again. Now we\u2019re told that everything is fully booked for several days. It\u2019s ruined.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 50km (32-mile) Channel Tunnel, more than half of it undersea, revolutionised UK-Europe rail travel since its inauguration in 1994.<\/p>\n
A record-high 19.5 million passengers travelled on Eurostar last year, up nearly 5 percent from 2023, driven by demand from visitors to the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s disruption was the latest to affect Eurostar at a time when the company has faced criticism over its high prices, especially on the Paris-London route.<\/p>\n
An electrical fault forced the cancellation of Eurostar services and severe delays in August. The theft of cables on train tracks in northern France caused two days of problems in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eurostar services between London and Europe disrupted as Channel Tunnel undergoes \u2018technical intervention\u2019. Published On 30 Dec 202530…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,36,2199,12,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-663058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115810067353260183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}