Eurostar travellers faced further disruptions on Sunday after an electrical problem shut down the Channel Tunnel for two hours, a day after a lorry fire forced the closure of the crucial transport link. Eleven trains — two return services between Paris and london and seven trains between Brussels and london — were cancelled.
Eurostar services had only just resumed after being suspended on Saturday when another problem surfaced in the tunnel between Britain and France at around 10 am (GMT). "Eurotunnel had another infrastructure problem, an electrical incident around 10 am this morning, and so they shut down the two tunnels from 10.00 am till noon," Eurostar's chief executive Nicolas Petrovic told AFP. The company, which offers passenger rail services between london, Brussels and Paris, had said schedules would return to normal on Sunday.
But the electrical incident caused further disruptions, adding to passenger woes after Saturday's fire had forced thousands to rearrange their travel plans. Passengers affected will be able to either exchange their tickets or get reimbursed, Petrovic said. Some 400 trains and 1.5 million lorries pass through the tunnel every day.