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MediaFaro News Digest

Italian rail operator reveals a €1bn investment to tackle Eurostar's monopoly.

Italian railway group Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) has revealed plans to launch a high-speed rail service between Paris and London.

Set to be launched by 2029, the service will challenge Eurostar’s long-running monopoly on the route.

The project would be carried out in partnership with Spanish firm Evolyn.

mediafaro.org/article/20250408

Euronews · Italian rail operator reveals a €1bn investment to tackle Eurostar's monopoly.By Eleanor Butler
#Eurostar#FerrovieDelloStato#Train
MediaFaro Analysis

Eurostar rivals are given the ‘green signal’ for cross-Channel trains: What could it mean for passengers?

For decades, Eurostar has been the only rail operator running through the Channel Tunnel. But recent shifts in regulation and burgeoning demand for lower-carbon travel options have boosted interest from competitors.

A handful of courageous rail companies are keen to make it happen.

mediafaro.org/article/20250402

Euronews · Eurostar rivals are given the ‘green signal’ for cross-Channel trains: What could it mean for passengers?By Joanna Bailey
#Eurostar#Travel#ChannelTunnel
MediaFaro News Digest

Virgin Group seeks to raise funding for a cross-Channel Eurostar rival.

A rival to the cross-Channel train service Eurostar could appear as soon as 2029 as Virgin Group seeks to raise £700 million (€832.9mn) for the project.

Virgin Group wants to launch the new service by the end of the decade, initially running trains from London to Paris and Brussels.

mediafaro.org/article/20250310

Euronews · Virgin Group seeks to raise funding for a cross-Channel Eurostar rival.By Eleanor Butler
#VirginGroup#ChannelTunnel#Eurostar
Pippa

Amazed to read that the channel tunnel is only running at 50% capacity - it's such an easy journey from London to Paris / Brussels / Amsterdam, and longer journeys in France, Spain, etc. are totally fine if you're willing to make overnight stops along the way. All with a tiny fraction of the carbon relative to flying.

ft.com/content/7ee0a7a1-e034-4

#rail, #channeltunnel, #climate, #travel, #europe

www.ft.comMaking tracks: is Eurostar’s monopoly under threat?Companies are exploring rival operations to run trains through the Channel Tunnel
Mark Burton

The future of long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel - @jon

"...whatever you read in the press about future long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel is at best only part of the truth, because the reality is complicated"

jonworth.eu/the-future-of-long

Jon Worth · The future of long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel - Jon WorthTL;DR – whatever you read in the press about future long distance train services through the Channel Tunnel is at best only part of the truth, because the reality is complicated Periodically stories appear in newspapers, on radio and television, and also in the dedicated railway trade press, about future […]
#ChannelTunnel#rail#NightTrains
Peter Keeling

In 1880-1882, an attempt was made to dig a railway tunnel from Kent to Calais.

Using an air-powered boring machine, the Submarine Continental Railway Company and its French partner dug 3.5km under the English Channel before British politics intervened and stopped the project.

Excited to share my article on the early history of the Channel Tunnel in the Public Domain Review. It's got pictures and everything.

publicdomainreview.org/essay/t

@histodons
#railway #channeltunnel #histodons

The Public Domain ReviewLiberal Visions and Boring Machines: The Early History of the Channel Tunnel More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. Peter Keeling drills into the history of this submarine link, and finds a still-relevant story about the cosmopolitan hopes and isolationist panic surrounding liberal internationalism.
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