by All Eurostar services between London and Paris were canceled on Friday after a non -exploded bomb in the Second World War was found overnight in the middle of the routes in France.
Thousands of passengers face disorders, while the police work to deactivate the order that was discovered by engineers one and a half miles from the train station.
Gare du Nord Station was closed and Eurostar asked the passengers to change their travel plans. It remains unclear how long disorders are expected to take.
Philippe Tabarot, the French Transport Minister, said that the normal services would be resumed on Saturday.
Fridays are often the busiest day of the week in the Eurostar because the holidaymakers return home during weekend breaks and workers.
In St. Pancras in London, large queues formed when the passengers tried to find out how to continue their travels.
Five of the six flights on which British Airways operated from Heathrow to Paris Charles de Gaulle on Friday afternoon were full.
A ticket for the one with replacement seats, which is lost at 6.20 p.m., was sold for £ 264.
Instead, some passengers decided to Lille, where the services were not affected. From there, Paris is a three -hour bus ride.
According to Eurostar, affected passengers can exchange their ticket free of charge to travel in the same travel class at a different time or another time.
It added that it sincerely apologizes for the disorder and understands the inconvenience that this can cause. “
Mr. Tarabot said Sud Radio that the residents should not be afraid of an explosion.
The device was found by the track employees around 4 a.m. by workers who move the earth near the tracks in Saint-Denis, about 1.5 miles away from the station.
Gare du Nord also connects Paris with other international destinations such as in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany as well as for domestic services.
It is considered the most powerful train station in the world outside of Japan.
It is not unusual to discover non -exploded war bombs along the railway lines in France, although they rarely occur in such densely populated areas. British and American armies focused on the train stations in Paris during the Second World War to disturb the German supply lines.
