Eurostar passengers faced disruption on Thursday morning after a bomb threat at Calais-Frethun station in northern France led to delays on several services to and from London St Pancras.
The Pas-de-Calais prefecture announced the bomb alert in a post on X at 8.40am, stating that an alert was under way at the station. In a second post less than two hours later, the prefecture said the situation had been resolved.
Three trains delayed
On the Eurostar website, the company said three trains on Thursday to or from London St Pancras had been delayed “due to a request for police assistance at Calais-Frethun station”.
These included the 9.01am service from St Pancras to Brussels Midi/Zuid, as well as the 9.10am and 10.10am services from Paris Gare du Nord to St Pancras.
Passengers at the London station faced long queues, with lines of people carrying luggage stretching along the building and snaking round towards the Eurostar departures area.
Further delays listed
On the online departures board, the 12.31pm and 1.31pm services from St Pancras to Paris were also listed as delayed because of the incident at the Calais station.
The disruption follows a wave of bomb threats and hoaxes received across Europe in recent weeks, which have caused flight disruption and the closure of schools.
Heathrow and Birmingham airports were among those that received threats assessed as not credible last week, as dozens of flights across the continent were also targeted. Broadcaster Sky and Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE were among a number of media organisations to receive a bomb threat on Friday.
It is not clear whether the incidents are connected. Eurostar has been contacted for comment.
