Eurostar says it is suspending ‘all trains between London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.’
The operator blamed the travel chaos on “a problem with the overhead power supply in the Channel Tunnel and a subsequent failed Le Shuttle train”.
A record-high 19.5 million passengers travelled on Eurostar last year, up nearly five percent on 2023, driven by demand from visitors to the Olympics and Paralympics in Paris.
Eurostar has held a monopoly on passenger services through the tunnel linking Britain and France since it opened in 1994.
But British entrepreneur Richard Branson -- the man behind the Virgin airline -- has vowed to launch a rival service. Italy’s Trenitalia has also said it intends to compete with Eurostar on the Paris-London route by 2029.
