Hundreds of passengers joined a snaking queue in London’s St Pancras station to change their tickets, after a World War II bomb unearthed near tracks leading to Paris’s Gare du Nord station led to a halt in service.
Friday was a rude start to her 40th birthday, which she had planned to celebrate with her friends on her first ever trip to the French capital.
“We had all the tickets booked,“ she said, wiping away a few tears. “I’m really upset, disappointed, frustrated, stressed.”
They looked for alternative trains to the southeast coastal town of Dover, from where they planned to catch a ferry to Calais in France.
The service offered affected travellers exchanges and refunds on their train tickets.
‘Lucky it’s unexploded’
Browsing for Airbnb rentals to stay an extra night in London, he admitted “it’s going to be expensive”, but was not disappointed.
In another corner, actress and Londoner Marie was sobbing as she scrolled on her phone to look for alternative routes to Paris.
“I can’t go at all (to Paris). The planes are too expensive,“ Maria said, adding she would likely not make the journey.
She was going to look for alternatives to her 1230 GMT Eurostar along with her co-traveller Mark Ormerod.
When she heard the reason for the cancellation, Bredin said she “laughed”. “I couldn’t believe it... That doesn’t sound real, does it?”
“It’s a wonderful service,“ added Ormerod. “We’d just like to get on it.”
Other Eurostar routes between London and Brussels or Amsterdam were running as normal.
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