Virgin Trains cleared to run Channel Tunnel services
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EUROPE: Gemini Trains still has ambitions to launch train services between the UK and continental Europe, despite the rejection of its application for depot access rights needed to enable it to launch services from London to Paris,
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Eurostar will finally have a real, cheaper, rival – but there’s a catch
Passengers must wait until at least 2030, but Virgin Trains is a step closer to running cross-Channel services – and it could drive down ticket costs
Preventive maintenance operations on the sleeper blocks during night works. Credit: GetLink Though there are hundreds of new rail infrastructure projects each year in Europe, few have perhaps retained the public’s interest as much as the Channel Tunnel ...
Demand for high-speed rail travel is booming in Europe. Travelers are desperate for a fast, sustainable alternative to short-haul air flights and congested highways. But there’s a problem. Demand is outstripping supply on many routes. Trains are full and ...
A chronicle of an engineering marvel and the challenges that almost brought it to ruin. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawing their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three. A project beset by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and ...
London — Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from a Eurotunnel train under the channel between Britain and France after a technical problem, its operators said on Tuesday. Getlink, which runs the rail link between Coquelles in northern France and ...
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