A crowd of commuters walking toward the platforms, with the train timetable above at Waterloo Station. Image Credit: Shutterstock/I Wei Huang
I was on my way to Amsterdam Centraal when the email arrived. My Eurostar to London had been canceled due to a “power cut,” along with every other departure from Amsterdam that day.
What should have been a straightforward journey quickly became a scramble. With no workable rail route to London, I booked a last-minute flight to Manchester, rented a car and drove to London, paying considerably more than I had planned to get where I needed to be.
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