Tens of thousands of rail travellers have seen their journeys wrecked at the start of the final weekend of the year as they set off to celebrate New Year's Eve, Report informs referring to the Independent.
Dozens of Eurostar trains between London St Pancras International and Continental Europe have been cancelled due to flooding on the High Speed 1 line.
Engineers said at 4am that no trains would be able to run through the tunnel, which runs beneath the Thames east of London.
Many of the thousands of passengers who arrived at Eurostar’s terminal were told that “due to an infrastructure issue” all trains scheduled before 10am were cancelled.
Britain’s only high-speed railway line, from London to Kent, is also out of use to Southeastern trains due to flooding in the Thames tunnels.