Eurostar Gets Stuck in
About 1,000 Eurostar passengers are to be given refunds after being stuck on two trains for several hours because of a power cut to overhead lines.
Friday’s 1932 BST service from London St Pancras to Paris and the 1934 BST to Brussels stopped outside Lille, north-east France, at around 2100 BST.
Alternative transport was eventually provided, though many passengers arrived five hours late.
Eurostar said delays were now down to no more that 15 minutes.
A spokesman told the BBC that trains were leaving London about a quarter of an hour late and that inbound journeys were now only a few minutes behind schedule.
Earlier Eurostar told the BBC that about 460 passengers had been transferred to replacement buses for the 60-mile journey to Brussels in Belgium.
