Snow causes travel chaos across Europe

Passengers sit underneath an electronic information board showing cancelled and delayed trains at King's Cross train station in north London Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Passengers queue for Eurostar trains as a train leaves St Pancras station in north London Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

People line up in a massive queue outside St Pancras train station for Eurostar services to mainland Europe Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

A passenger aircraft takes off as snow begins to fall at Heathrow airport in London Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Passengers wait in the departures area of Terminal 3 at Heathrow airport as travel chaos continues due to the adverse weather Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

Snow ploughs work to remove the snow around aircraft at Copenhagen's Kastrup International airport following 25cm (10in) snowfall Photograph: Hjorth Henning/AP

A train leaves Newcastle station as snowfall continues to cause travel chaos across the UK Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

A passenger lies on the floor, surrounded by luggage and other waiting passengers, at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3 building Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

An aircraft takes off as another is de-iced at Copenhagen's Kastrup International airport, following a 25cm (10in) snowfall Photograph: Hjorth Henning/AP

Passengers crowd into London's St Pancras International station, where the Eurostar terminal is based. Thousands of travellers waited hours as the icy conditions struck services to France and Belgium Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images

A passenger surrounded by luggage at the Eurostar terminal in St Pancras Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images

Passengers queue at the Eurostar terminal Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

An information screen shows cancelled flights at Heathrow airport in west London. Snow and freezing temperatures continued to ground flights to and from Britain Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

A security guard sits with luggage at Heathrow as the flight backlog grows Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Passengers wait to check in at Frankfurt airport in central Germany Photograph: Frank Rumpenhorst/AFP/Getty Images

A train covered with ice and snow leaves Halle station in east Germany Photograph: Eckehard Schulz/AP

An airport employee dressed as an angel entertains children whose families saw their flights from Frankfurt airport delayed or cancelled because of the bad weather Photograph: Alex Domanski/Reuters

Planes are de-iced at Dusseldorf airport in Germany Photograph: Julian Stratenschulte/EPA

A volunteer tries to push a car blocked by snow in a street in Nancy, France Photograph: Mathieu Cugnot/EPA

Cars drive slowly on a snowy motorway in Zoetermeer in the Netherlands, as icy conditions gripped the country's roads Photograph: Lex Van Lieshout/AFP/Getty Images

Dutch railway employees clear snow from rail tracks in The Hague Photograph: Valerie Kuypers/AFP/Getty Images

A girl sits on a bag as she waits for a flight at Edinburgh airport in Scotland Photograph: David Moir/Reuters