Eurostar facing severe delays after huge cable theft in France
by Lisa O'Carroll from World news | The Guardian on (#6Y7C7)
Passengers urged to reschedule trips, with disruption affecting Nato summit in the Netherlands
Passengers booked on Eurostar train services have been urged to cancel or delay their trips after a huge theft of cable in France, which threatened to disrupt the Nato summit in the Netherlands.
Engineers are scrambling to repair the high speed line after 600m of cable was stolen or cut at Lille Europe station, the key interchange for trains between London and Paris and between Paris and Brussels and Amsterdam.
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