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Your support makes all the difference.Eurostar services between Britain and the continent have been suspended after smoke was detected in the Channel Tunnel.
The Eurostar Twitter account announced that all trains currently in service would be sent back to where they had started from.
No further trains will be running on the service for the rest of the day.
“All trains are returning to original stations as Tunnel closed until further notice following smoke detection,” it tweeted this afternoon.
The Eurotunnel service, which operates vehicle carrier trains through the tunnel, said on Twitter that tunnel had been closed due to an “incident”.
“Due to an incident in the tunnel, all departures are currently suspended in both directions. We will update you with more info shortly,” the company's account tweeted.
Kent Police said the smoke alert was caused by a lorry fire near the French end of the tunnel.
Eurostar said it will not be restarting services tonight.
In a message posted on its website at 5.30pm, it said: "We are sorry but we are unable to run any further trains today because Eurotunnel has been closed due to smoke detected in the north tunnel.
"You will not be able to travel today, and so please do not come to the station. We will be updating the website with the very latest information. Keep checking here for updates."
Large queues have been building at St Pancras station, Eurostar's London terminus, as services were cancelled following the fire, and similar scenes were reported in Paris, with many holidaymakers forced to look for alternative transport or hotels.
Matt Sheppard, 26, is stuck in the French capital with friends, trying to get back to London after a week's skiing in La Plagne in the Alps.
He said they had been told at the Gare du Nord station that trains might not be running again until Monday, leaving them considering possible alternatives to get home for work in time.
He said their 10-strong group included one man who was due to start a new job on Monday.
He said: "When we got here, we very quickly found out that no trains were going to run today.
"There are loads of people just trying to figure out what they should do.
"We came down to the Ibis hotel and since we did about 10 other people have turned up trying to get a room for the night."
Mr Sheppard, from Bethnal Green in east London, praised Eurostar, saying that it had a lot of staff at Gare du Nord helping passengers who were arriving and telling them how to claim back money if they had to book a hotel for the night.
But he said they did not have a lot of information about when trains might start running again.
"He said possibly tomorrow but it could even be Monday," Mr Sheppard added.
Eurostar said it will run a full service tomorrow "for passengers who have an existing reservation for this date".
It said trains would be delayed by between 30 and 60 minutes because of only one tunnel being open.
But it said people whose trains were cancelled today were advised not to arrive at stations unless they had already been re-booked.
A spokesman said: "All passengers who are booked to travel tomorrow, Sunday 18 January, should check in as normal half an hour before departure.
"Eurostar services tomorrow are already very busy and availability is limited.
"If you were on a cancelled train today and need to travel urgently tomorrow, please call our contact centre on 03432 186 186 after 8am GMT tomorrow and we will try to re-book you on a service departing after 12pm GMT.
"We would strongly advise passengers whose journeys were impacted today by the problems in Eurotunnel not to come to our stations unless they have re-booked through our contact centre."
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