Getting your player ready...
PARIS — Eurostar said it would resume its high- speed rail service linking Britain, France and Belgium today after a three-day suspension that stranded tens of thousands of travelers.
Officials at the Eurostar train company said they had identified the problem that caused the suspension: unusually dry, powdery snow that got into the trains’ engines. However, more snow was forecast for early today.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday summoned the head of France’s SNCF rail operator, Guillaume Pepys, into the Elysee Palace and ordered him to get the Eurostar moving again.
