Key points
- Gare du Nord train station lies in the north of Paris
- The station serves an estimated 700,000 people each day
- Eurostar and all other trains halted
PARIS, France: Traffic at the Paris Gare du Nord train station was halted on Friday after a World War II bomb was found on tracks leading to France’s busiest terminal, officials said.
According to AFP, the unexploded bomb was found “in the middle of the tracks” overnight during maintenance work carried out in the area of Saint Denis suburb, the national SNCF rail company said.
The bomb “dated to the Second World War,” the RER B suburban train wrote in a post on X.
ℹ️ Les démineurs analyse la situation pour sécuriser la zone et évacuer les éléments. #RERB
Pour vous en dire un peu plus, les travaux réalisés cette nuit ont mis au jour un obus datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.— RER B (@RERB) March 7, 2025
Traffic closed
All traffic to the train station, which hosts Eurostar trains as well as high-speed and local services, was closed as Paris police worked to disable the device.
The Gare du Nord train station lies in the north of Paris and is the country’s busiest rail terminal, serving an estimated 700,000 people each day, according to the SNCF, according to AFP.
According to BBC, the Eurostar and all other trains were halted as police worked to disable the device.
Eurostar’s website shows trains from London to Paris scheduled to depart before 10:30 GMT on Friday were cancelled, and routes from Paris to London before noon local time (11:00 GMT) were also cancelled.
According to BBC, Eurostar said on its update that “due to an object on the tracks near Paris Gare du Nord, we are expecting disruption to our services this morning”.
Passengers could exchange their ticket for free to travel at another date or time in the same class, subject to availability, the train company said.
