Eurostar passengers face delays and cancellations due to French rail issue

Passengers on a few Eurostar train face delays and cancellations after causing a problem of a power supply problem on a railway line in Northern France.

The Eurostar website showed that at least nine services between London and Paris were canceled on Monday, while 15 more services were postponed.

The problem started on Monday at 08:30 (06:30 GMT) local time (06:30 GMT), and it is expected that the disruptions will continue until the end of the day and the trains will be directed to work on slower lines.

Eurostar advised passengers to postpone their journeys if possible.

Some services between Brussels and Paris and between Amsterdam and Paris were canceled, delayed or other disruptions were canceled due to a high-speed railway closure between Moussy and Longueil in the Hauts-de-France region.

French track network operator Sncf Réseau “seriously corrupted” services on the website It was due to a power supply problem that required “great repairs”.

In addition to one to five hours of delays in Eurostar, TGV Inoui and Ouigo also foresees other services.

The trains between London-Amsterdam, Brussels-Amsterdam, Brussels-London and Brussels-Cologne were not affected.

Eurostar, SNCF Réseau’nun part of a piece 18:30 CET (17:30 GMT) ‘will reopen and “trains will allow the high -speed but limited service to work again,” he said.

“Traffic should be able to continue on both tracks tomorrow morning when the services start to work again.”

Extra personnel were sent to the affected stations to help the passengers.

August is an intensive period for travel between channels due to school holidays, ie services are usually more intense than normal.

Monday’s deductions come about a month later A Eurostar train traveling between Brussels and London had to be emptied Northern France due to power outage.

And in June, There were big interruptions for two days After separate fatal events on France’s LGV Nord line, it followed the theft of cable.