Eurostar: Passengers join large queue for trains ahead of closure

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Queues for the Eurostar, which departs from St Pancras in central London, have snaked around the outside of the building in recent days. On Tuesday, a fault with one of the service’s trains led to long delays for passengers heading to Paris and Brussels.

A Eurostar spokesperson said: There was a technical fault with one of our sets earlier, which put it out of service.

“As such, unfortunately, that particular service left London over an hour late.”

But anger at extensive waiting times has continued for travellers taking to social media on Wednesday, with one traveller saying queues were once again stretching outside St Pancras station.

Frustrated traveller @nessie421 tweeted: “Eurostar has been chaotic this week. Extremely long queues.”

Princeton University professor, Shamus Khan, wrote: “The great Jubilee Flee!”

“Lines around the block at St Pancras for the Eurostar out of the UK.”

Another Twitter account, @QuaffableRdg added: “If you thought the travel chaos was limited to airports, think again.

“This is the queue this morning out of the station, along the road and round the corner for Eurostar.”

Twitter user @AnneCBurchett wrote: “@Eurostar advises passengers should arrive at St Pancras 90-120 min before departure and at Gare du Nord 45-60 min before departure.”

@BenDunnell added: “St Pancras is a woefully designed station with completely inadequate capacity for Eurostar as soon as it gets mildly busy.”

@jljphotography complained of “shambles in the departure lounge, check-in, passport control” before commenting that “sadly, it’ll make flying an option if it goes on”.

@Marilyn_DiCara quipped: “Insane long queues for Eurostar at St Pancras.

“Zigzagging the entire length of the station and more.

“I hope everyone who wants to get away managed to do so. Bon chance!”

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