Track Damage Causes Severe Delays On UK-France Eurostar
Friday November 28th, 2008 / 23h34
LILLE, France (AFP)--Eurostar traffic suffered severe delays Friday after a high-speed train traveling from London to Paris was stuck in the channel tunnel for three hours, French railways said. More than 500 passengers arrived in the French capital more than five hours late due to what Eurostar and Eutotunnel said was damaged track. Rail service among Paris, London and Brussels saw delays of one to three hours. The latest incident comes three weeks after acts of vandalism caused lengthy delays to Eurostar and other high-speed train services between Paris and the northern French city of Lille. That came a week after TGV services to western France were disrupted for up to six hours in the Paris region when gunshots were blamed for a broken catenary, or overhead wire. Last month, the French railway company SNCF estimated that it needed to invest EUR400 million over four years to renovate the catenaries on its network. In mid-September a fire on a freight train in the channel tunnel hampered Eurostar service for a weekend. -Dow Jones Newswires, 201-938-5500 Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http://www.djnewsplus.com/al?rnd=AhwCpQQ0pWKzJrCNi%2Bzc7w%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
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