Travellers scramble to make alternative planspublished at 11:51 Greenwich Mean Time 7 March
Tom Symonds
Reporting from London St Pancras

Eurostar has apologised for the disruption this morning
People are generally taking this in their stride.
I spoke to one group of women heading out to Paris for a 25th birthday. They're really not expecting now to get to Paris so they're going to enjoy themselves in London.
I also spoke to an American couple over for a holiday in London and Paris. They had everything booked - the Eiffel Tower, a trip down the Seine - and now they're likely not to be able to go at all.
They're having to find accommodation in London and await their flight back to the US on Sunday - so some considerable cost for them and a disappointing trip.
Some Eurostar routes are unaffected, and some people are using that to try to find a way to where they need to go.
A group of young guys I spoke to said they were planning to go to Lille and then get a bus from there to Paris - very enterprising. It's going to take them a while though. They said it's going to take them three hours to get from Lille to Paris.