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| London to Paris trains suspended due to WWII bomb UPDATE: Defused, all back to normal | |
| 2025-03-08 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Train service between London and Paris has been suspended due to a bomb from World War II on the tracks. This was reported on March 7 by radio station Franceinfo. "No trains have been running at the Gare du Nord since this morning after a bomb from World War II was discovered in the commune of Saint-Denis last night," the statement said. It was also noted that approximately 2 km of the Paris ring road was closed for a large-scale operation to clear the 500 kg shell that was found. In addition, according to the radio station, difficulties arose during the demining operation, as a gas pipe was found under the bomb. Nevertheless, the shell was defused. "The demining operation... is over, the Minister of Transport [Philippe Tabarot] reports. According to him, the A1 motorway has already been able to resume traffic. The disruption affected 500 trains and 600,000 people at the Gare du Nord, where normal traffic is now planned from 8 p.m.," the radio station reports. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 26, 2024, during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, there was a disruption in the movement of high-speed TGV trains - several fires broke out at railway facilities. About 800 thousand passengers were forced to remain at train stations. The head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gerald Darmanin, also stated that foreign forces could have been involved in the sabotage. In December 2021, an explosion occurred near a construction site near a railway station in Germany. The incident left one person seriously injured and also halted train traffic. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann said during an inspection of the scene that the explosion was caused by a World War II aerial bomb.
Rail services from the Paris Gare du Nord train station will gradually resume after the unearthing of a 500-kilogram World War II bomb halted traffic, France’s transport minister says. The defusing operations were “finally over, they went well,” Philippe Tabarot says, adding that the bomb “contained 200 kilograms of explosives.” | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 "as a gas pipe was found under the bomb" Either this is a very old gas line, or over there they don't bother with ground scans when they push pipe. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-03-08 08:33 |