New Year’s travel chaos as Eurostar and Southeastern trains cancelled over Thames tunnel flooding
by Simon Calder
Dec 30, 2023
4 minutes
Tens of thousands of people were left stranded on Saturday after Eurostar cancelled all its services due to flooding in a tunnel.
All 41 trains scheduled on the day were cancelled, throwing travel plans into chaos with passengers scrambling to rearrange transport to and from London St Pancras.
Among them were newlyweds Nicole and Christopher Carrera, who said their plans to spend New Year’s Eve in Disneyland Paris had been “ruined”.
One mother said her family was “trying not to be homeless with children in a cold London night” after the travel chaos upended their stay in the French capital.
Luana Andrade, 36, her husband Rondi
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