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.Eurostar passenger train services linking Britain to continental Europe will be suspended for a third day on Monday, the company said, after a series of trains broke down due to the freezing weather.
Eurostar says it will not restart services until the source of the breakdowns – which left at least five trains stranded in the tunnel between England and France – has been identified and fixed.
Eurostar is offering passengers replacement tickets and compensation after 2,000 people spent hours trapped in the tunnel with limited food, water or fresh air. .
Eurostar’s commercial director Nick Mercer said test trains had been running on Sunday with engineers trying to work out what was making them break down.
An investigation is underway into employees’ handling of the crisis after many complaints from passengers they did not appear to know what to do.
Mercer said screens and shields meant to stop snow getting into the electrics had failed and needed to be improved.
They had made modifications to the trains, which will be tested on Monday to ensure they are effective, he said. The engineers believe they’ve found the cause,” he told BBC television.
“The test trains did run satisfactorily.
The big temperature change between the open air and the warm tunnels has also been blamed for the breakdowns.
The weather conditions in northern France “caused snow to be ingested into the trains in a way that’s never happened before,” he said.