Richard Branson’s group plans rail routes linking London to Paris and Brussels, and maybe Amsterdam Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is aiming to raise £700m to fund its plan to launch cross-Channel rail services that would compete with Eurostar.Virgin, …
Partnership comes as London station looks at ways to almost triple passenger numbersLondon’s St Pancras railway station and the Channel tunnel operator have agreed to work together to open up more trains from Britain to France, and routes to Germany an…
Numerous maintenance works scheduled this year have thrown the country’s rail industry into chaos
The rail operator has pulled four of 15 trains from its Saturday schedule, affecting more than 3,000 peopleEurostar passengers hoping to catch the start of the Paris Olympics have continued to face difficulties after an arson attack in France caused tr…
‘Massive’ coordinated attacks on TGV bring severe disruption to France’s busiest rail linesParis 2024 Olympics – live updatesFrance’s high-speed rail network has been hit by coordinated “malicious acts” including arson attacks that have brought major d…
Passengers were left abandoned and humiliated after operator banned staff from providing assistanceEurostar has reversed a new accessibility policy that left a wheelchair user stranded and has retrained its London staff following pressure from the Obse…
Delayed orders from clients hit French manufacturer, including at Derby site where 1,300 jobs at riskAlstom plans to raise €1bn (£861m) to help cut its debt as the world’s second largest train maker struggles with delayed orders amid concerns about the…
An industry project launched by the rail industry sector’s skills alliance (STAFFER) and sponsored by the European Commission is reaching an end after almost four years. Euractiv spoke to project participants, who will present concrete policy recommend…
Facilities at St Pancras too ‘inadequate’ to process new checks without ‘hour-long queues’ at peak times, says operator HS1Eurostar could be forced to limit passenger numbers travelling from St Pancras each day under post-Brexit plans to bring in biome…
Dismay at St Pancras International in London as services cancelled due to flooding of Thames tunnelUK weather: Eurostar services from London cancelled for day due to floodingWhen Ilse Deurloo arrived at St Pancras station after a festive holiday with h…
Eurostar and Eurotunnel services resume on Friday but drivers face 60-minute queue for French border controlsChristmas getaway disruption was continuing on Friday with long queues for cross-Channel journeys, motorway closures and train cancellations on…
Blow to passengers as direct trains from Netherlands cancelled from June 2024 to early 2025Rail passengers will be unable to directly travel from Amsterdam to London for six months next year as a big revamp of the Dutch capital’s largest railway statio…
European Sleeper to run its Berlin service to Czech capital amid EU revival in long-distance trainsRail passengers will be able to leave Brussels or Amsterdam in the evening and wake up the next morning in Dresden or Prague – and vice versa – from Marc…
Erratic Deutsche Bahn services make our commutes a misery. Luckily, their meaningless announcements are an art formI have never played in an orchestra. But when 200 musicians had to delay the start of a prestigious concert in Berlin recently because th…
Brussels increasingly is willing to ramp up measures to combat what it views as China’s unfair trading practices.
Rail networks in most countries have been starved of funding while motorways lengthen, study showsEuropean governments have “systematically” shrunk their railways and starved them of funding while pouring money into expanding their road network, a repo…
As the rail operator cuts back routes, its boss is pinning her hopes on technology to get the post-Brexit queues moving‘It’s quite amazing,” declares Eurostar’s Gwendoline Cazenave, fresh from St Pancras International station in London, where the cross…
