Eurostar resumed its high-speed rail service linking Britain, France and Belgium on Tuesday after a three-day suspension that stranded tens of thousands of holiday travelers. The first train pulled out of the Gare du Nord station in Paris shortly after 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) carrying 750 passengers, many of whom had been stranded for days. Hundreds of others waited in a line that stretched across the cavernous Paris train station, as Eurostar staff circulated with trays of pastries and coffee in paper cups. Terminal manager Nelly Clair-Meunier said people who were supposed to travel over the weekend were being given priority on Tuesday"s trains, which were expected to leave hourly throughout most of the day. That represented about two-thirds of Tuesday"s regularly scheduled trains, she said. «It"s going quite well,» Clair-Meunier told The Associated Press. «The passengers were quite happy and they were thanking us for getting to travel on that first train.»
