Tens of thousands of rail passengers have been left stranded as their journeys were disrupted at the start of the final weekend of the year, just as they set off to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The disruption primarily affected Eurostar trains running between London St Pancras International and Continental Europe due to flooding on the High Speed 1 line.
In the early hours of the morning, engineers announced that no trains would be able to pass through the tunnel, which runs beneath the Thames east of London. As a result, dozens of Eurostar trains had to be cancelled, leaving many passengers with cancelled travel plans.
