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Europe: Update: Rail traffic resumes at Paris Gare du Nord; some delays possible as trains return to normal schedules

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Train services in and out of Paris’s busy Gare du Nord resumed on Wednesday afternoon having have been completely halted because of a massive power cut, French rail operator SNCF said.

French rail operator SNCF said that services had been halted completely at 1:20 pm, but had started to resume after two hours’ paralysis.

The SNCF had announced to passengers that high-speed TGV and intercity services would resume between 4 pm and 5 pm, but that passengers were advised to make new travel plans anyway.

The SNCF said that the power failure was linked to an overhead power line cable that was ripped out by a regional RER B train on Tuesday, which stopped all rail traffic linking Charles de Gaulle airport and the French capital.

All regional, national and international Eurostar and Thalys services operating from the busy station were affected.