Eurostar has announced plans to invest £700 million in upgrading existing trains and adding new rolling stock to the fleet. Italian car design company, Pininfarina, has been asked to oversee a complete overhaul of Eurostar’s existing trains. The firm will also buy 10 new train sets to expand its fleet and offer customers an improved [...]

Eurotunnel has announced a record summer as more motorcycles, caravans, cars and coaches travelled under the channel than ever before. During July and August traffic was up by 17 per cent on the same months last year. On 14 August the channel tunnel recorded its busiest day ever with a total of 14,825 cars making [...]

Air France and British Airways are warning passengers that their travel plans may be disrupted by strike action involving French transport workers due to commence at 5pm today. The industrial action is in response to the French government’s proposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. As of tomorrow, post offices, schools and [...]

A group of passengers, who travelled from Folkestone to Calais on the Eurotunnel, found themselves back in Folkestone rather sooner than they expected after officials forgot to let them off in France. The day trippers were on the train in seven vehicles parked behind a wagon which had been left empty due to a fuel incident. [...]

High-speed passenger train operator, Eurostar, has announced a 6 per cent passenger increase on its UK to Europe services. A total of 4.6 million people travelled through the Eurotunnel in the first half of 2010, generating £404 million in revenue for the operator. The increase in passengers underlies a preference away from short-haul airline services, [...]

RailEurope has always offered a great range of deals and ways to see the best of the continent, and their latest deal is sure to appeal to train travellers and holidaymakers. The Eurostar Culture Connect service (launched Wednesday May 5) provides a great offer for visiting some of the finest galleries in Paris, London and [...]

Eurostar, the Channel Tunnel high-speed train organisation, has rebounded from the disastrous pre-Christmas breakdowns to record a first quarter increase. Late 2009 saw the rail carrier crippled by a series of breakdowns due to freezing weather that drew critical responses from the media, the travelling public and industry analysts. On a number of occasions, power [...]

According to several travel operators and opposition parties in the UK government, the recently deployed electronic border controls, ‘e-Borders’, are not reliable. Ministers had earlier informed the public that the e-Borders system will check 95 per cent of passenger activities by the end of 2010, but ferry companies and Eurostar told Sky News that they [...]

New reports from Eurostar show that their total ticket sales in 2009 reached record highs. In fact, the company was able to record £675.5 million in sales. This is an increase of about 1.7 percent on 2008. This is a big deal since 2009 marked a very difficult year for the travel and tourism industry [...]

It now seems that Eurostar is expected to shell out some big money to 100,000 passengers who had problems with their Christmas travel plans due to breakdowns with the high speed cross Channel service. Right now reports suggest that Eurostar could be paying as much as £10 million to cover compensation. It is already very [...]