(7 Mar 2025)
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Paris – 7 March 2025
1. Inside Gare du Nord railway station with people waiting
2. Screen information reading (French) “Traffic interrupted after discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb near the tracks halted Eurostar services between Paris and London "
3. Eurostar at station
4. Eurostar passengers queuing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonas Gabler, from Berlin, travelling to London:
“We just arrived at the station, and we’ve seen that everything was closed here and apparently, they found a bomb and the train won’t depart until 10 a.m., maybe even all day. Now we were going to see if we stay for another night or maybe try to catch a train later in the day."
6. Various of passengers waiting outside the Eurostar office
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonas Gabler, from Berlin, travelling to London:
"The last information is that they don’t know if there will be any trains departing today, so they recommended to be sure to take a train, to book a train for tomorrow and extend our stay here. And now we’re thinking we don’t know. We don’t know yet."
8. Wide of Gare du Nord railway station
9. TGV train
10. Pan form passengers waiting to train platform
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Florian Sonthonnax, travelling to London:
"Well, I took a train, I moved it to 2:30 p.m. and we’ll see then what’s going to happen, if not we don’t go to London for the weekend."
12. Escalator at the railway station
13. Passenger reading book
14. Passengers waiting
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Lexie, no surname given, US tourist from South Carolina travelling to Brussels:
”So I was going to meet my friend in Brussels, but obviously the trains are all delayed and my train was at 07:23, but now I don’t know when it will be.
Reporter question "Did you get some information?"
Lexie: ”No, the woman said…I talked to tried to talk to many people. I waited in a long service line and eventually she just said, just wait until ten and then we’ll figure out what to do”
16. Various of Eurostar departure platform
17. Station help staff talking to passengers
18. Passengers waiting at the escalator
19. Exterior of Gare du Nord railway station
STORYLINE:
Eurostar trains to London and all trains heading to northern France have been halted following the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb near the tracks.
France’s national train operator, SNCF, announced that traffic at the Gare du Nord would be suspended until mid-morning Friday at the request of police.
"We invite travelers to postpone their trip," the statement read.
The Gare du Nord is a major European transit hub, and while unexploded ordnance from World War I or II is regularly found across France, it is rare to discover such devices in highly populated areas.
Travellers at the station expressed frustration and uncertainty.
Jonas Gabler from Berlin, who was traveling to London for a musical concert on Saturday, said, they had just arrived at the station to learn about the news,
"Apparently, they found a bomb, and trains won’t depart until 10 a.m., maybe even all day. Now we were going to see if we stay for another night or maybe try to catch a train later in the day."
Lexie, a U.S. tourist from South Carolina traveling to Brussels, shared, "I was going to meet my friend in Brussels, but obviously the trains are all delayed, and my train was at 07:23, but now I don’t know when it will be."
Florian Sonthonnax, who was planning a weekend trip to London, said he had rescheduled his train was waiting to see if it would depart.
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