Folks sit round with their luggage at St. Pancras station in London on December 30, 2025, as Eurostar prepare service between Britain and continental Europe is halted.
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Eurostar urged passengers to alter their journey plans on Tuesday as an issue with the overhead energy provide pressured the Channel Tunnel to shut.
“Resulting from an issue with the overhead energy provide and a subsequent failed Le Shuttle prepare the Channel tunnel is at present closed. Sadly, this implies now we have no selection however to droop all companies at this time till additional discover,” Eurostar mentioned in a press release warning of “main disruption” on its web site.
“Please don’t come to the station. We’re very sorry for the affect the scenario might have in your journey plans,” the corporate mentioned.
The disruption brings one in all Europe’s busiest worldwide rail corridors to a close to standstill through the New Yr journey season.
Pictures printed confirmed scores of individuals sitting round their luggage at St. Pancras prepare station in London, in addition to lengthy queues of site visitors as passengers waited to enter the Eurotunnel web site in Folkestone in Kent.
Eurostar, which runs companies from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, carried 19.5 million passengers in 2024, marking essentially the most profitable 12 months in its historical past.
