Passengers stuck on Eurostar trains for 8-plus hours tweet their misery

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LONDON — It was a very long night for hundreds of Eurostar passengers after a power cut left them stranded for more than eight hours

Two trains were halted late Thursday due to the technical difficulties, including a train from Brussels to London carrying 600 passengers and another from London to Paris with 700 on board

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Staff were online tweeting updates after the power cut out. A spokesman for Eurostar told Mashable that the power outage was caused by a failure on the power lines in France, but as it doesn’t manage them, it doesn’t yet know the cause of the outage. He said the longest delay was nine hours. Read more...

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