High speed train services between Brussels and London are to be suspended until the morning of Monday, February 22 as a result of this past Monday's crash between two Belgian commuter trains that killed 18 people, dpa quoted a spokesman for the Eurostar company as saying today. Brum Smits told the German Press Agency dpa that Eurostar would continue to offer a limited bus service from Brussels to Lille, in France, where hard-pressed customers would be able to catch a train to London. Disruption to other international rail destinations, however, is expected to be less severe. A spokeswoman from Thalys, the Franco- Belgian-Dutch-German consortium that connects Paris to Cologne and Amsterdam via Brussels, said a limited service between Brussels and Paris is to restart on Thursday. Patricia Baars told dpa that seven trains would run during the day instead of the 25 normally scheduled. She also said there would be no direct services connecting Paris to Cologne, with passengers having to change trains in Brussels.
