{"id":396807,"date":"2024-10-10T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/10\/10\/incendio-eurostar-strasburgo-bruxelles-2\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:24:24","slug":"fire-on-officials-train-locomotive-at-strasbourg-station-return-from-plenary-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/10\/10\/fire-on-officials-train-locomotive-at-strasbourg-station-return-from-plenary-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire on “officials’ train” locomotive at Strasbourg station: return from plenary postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – It is still not completely clear what happened, nor the exact causes. For now, officially all that is known is that an accident<\/strong> that occurred today (Oct. 10) on the tracks at the Strasbourg Station<\/strong> caused severe disruptions to rail traffic<\/strong>, on the very day when the Plenary Session of the European Parliament<\/strong> ended, preventing a few hundred passengers on the special “officials’ train” from returning to the European capital.<\/p>\n

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Passengers on the Strasbourg-Brussels direct train waiting in the lobby of the Alsatian station (Photo: Eunews)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The information available early Thursday afternoon spoke of the “development of smoke on a train<\/strong>,” probably triggered by a fire in the pantograph<\/strong> (the arm that connects the carriage to the electrical cables) in the locomotive car of the Eurostar, the high-speed Strasbourg-Brussels<\/strong> train, on which hundreds of Euro MPs, officials, journalists, and other workers<\/strong> who had attended the second plenary session of the House<\/strong> after the summer recess (which began last Oct. 7) were supposed to travel, but were instead hastily ushered out of the carriages.<\/p>\n

An internal EU Parliament email viewed by Eunews<\/em>, addressed to more than 550 recipients, asked them to “remain calm” while the dynamics of the incident are being worked out and a solution found.<\/p>\n

According to the fragmentary information<\/strong> coming from the scene of the accident, firefighters<\/strong> have intervened to extinguish the flames<\/strong>, while passengers have been asked to leave the station briefly. The French railway operator, SNCF<\/strong>, communicated<\/a> that circulation should resume around 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of passengers were forced off the cars due to electrical equipment failure. There are no reports of injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":396774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[25733,25755,29317,26708,29318],"class_list":["post-396807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-bruxelles-en-2","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-eurostar-en","tag-session-plenary-en","tag-strasbourg-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397688,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396807\/revisions\/397688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}