Fire trucs are parked outside Gare du Nord as the Paris rail link was suspended from and to Gare du Nord, after an accident with a catenary that brought down power lines, on December 7, 2016. Paris was smothered by its worst winter pollution in a decade,
PARIS: An equipment failure temporarily halted all rail traffic on Wednesday at the Gare du Nord station in Paris, including the international Eurostar and Thalys train links, the SNCF state rail company said.
Traffic gradually began returning to normal more than two hours after being affected by “an electrical problem,” the spokesman said.
The Gare du Nord station, the busiest in Europe, is the Paris destination for Eurostar connections with London and Thalys links with Brussels and other north European countries.
Problems with electrical equipment had already halted train services between the station and the Charles de Gaulle airport north of the capital.
(Reporting by Emmanuel Jarry; Writing by Brian Love and Leigh Thomas; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
