Eurostar Delays Paris Brussels Amsterdam Feb 13
Eurostar flagged a cluster of live delays on its cross border network affecting the Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam corridors. The disruption concentrates at Paris Gare du Nord, Brussels Midi, and Amsterdam Centraal, and Eurostar's own live service updates also reference traffic or technical issues across the French, Belgian, and Dutch networks on Friday, February 13, 2026. For travelers, the problem is not one late departure, it is multiple upstream constraints hitting the same international trunk lines at once, which makes recovery options thinner and connection margins less reliable.
The operational picture is also being shaped by a longer running schedule reduction. Eurostar's updates show forward dated cancellations and limited service that extend beyond this week, which changes the traveler decision from retiming within the day to confirming that your intended departure exists and that there is spare capacity to absorb knock on disruption. If you are traveling on a time critical itinerary, February 13 is the kind of day where the rational move can be switching modes or adding an overnight, rather than repeatedly chasing later trains.
Who Is Affected
Travelers moving between London and Paris, London and Brussels, London and Amsterdam, Paris and Brussels, and Paris and Amsterdam are most exposed because these city pairs funnel through the same constrained hubs. When Amsterdam Centraal runs busy and trains are delayed, and Brussels Midi is simultaneously reporting delays tied to station crowding or network traffic, a Brussels based transfer becomes especially fragile for anyone continuing onward on separate tickets.
You are also exposed if your itinerary uses Eurostar as a positioning leg to reach a flight, a cruise, or an onward long distance train. Paris Gare du Nord disruption is particularly consequential because it compresses the time needed to cross Paris for other stations, or to reach airport links, and it tends to propagate into later departures when trainsets and crews miss planned rotations. Travelers who booked the last workable departure of the day, or who planned same day hotel check in plus an evening event, face a higher chance of an unplanned overnight.
What Travelers Should Do
Start with immediate triage. Pull up your exact train number in Eurostar's live service updates, and check it against both same day delay alerts and the forward cancellation notices, because Eurostar is listing specific cancelled trains on specific dates in the Paris and Brussels corridor during this period. If your train is running late into a tight onward connection, assume the station layer, queuing, platform changes, and rebooking lines will add friction beyond the published delay.
Use a decision threshold that is about outcomes, not minutes. If arriving more than 60 to 90 minutes late would break your trip, for example you would miss an international flight, a cruise embarkation, or a timed entry you cannot move, treat February 13 as a mode switch day. Price a short haul flight early, or shift to an overnight plan that protects the next morning's first departure, because multi network delay days reduce the chance that "the next train" preserves your arrival time.
Over the next 24 to 72 hours, monitor whether Eurostar expands the date range of the planned cancellation and limited service blocks, especially on the Netherlands linked services where Eurostar also lists engineering works that can create repeated disruptions on select Saturdays into April. If your plans include Paris station transfers or contingency hotel nights near Gare du Nord, keep a simple local mobility backup in mind so you can move across the city even if your arrival time slips, and use Paris Travel Guide: The Ultimate 7-10 Day First-Timer's Itinerary for station orientation and city transport context. For recent context on how quickly Eurostar's disruption windows have been shifting this week, see Eurostar Gare du Nord Delays Feb 12, 2026 and Eurostar French Strike Cancels London Paris Trains.
Background
Eurostar runs on top of several national rail infrastructures, and that structure is why a multi network disruption day behaves differently than an isolated station incident. A delay at Paris Gare du Nord can block platform availability and stretch turnarounds, while Belgian network congestion can limit train paths into Brussels Midi, and Dutch network constraints can slow arrivals into Amsterdam Centraal. When those constraints overlap, Eurostar has less ability to recover by reprotecting passengers onto nearby services, because the alternates are drawing from the same constrained corridor.
The first order impacts show up as delayed arrivals, platform changes, and missed transfers in the core hubs. The second order ripples spread into at least two other layers. Connection planning degrades, because later day departures inherit earlier delays when equipment and crews end up out of position, and travelers begin shifting to flights, which tightens short haul air availability and pushes up prices. Cancellations amplify that effect by removing capacity entirely, forcing more passengers into fewer departures and increasing the odds of split groups or next day travel.