(Pete Seaward/Lonely Planet) Here’s a fun fact for anyone looking to be more eco-friendly when exploring the continent this summer: if you take the train instead of flying, you can reduce the carbon footprint of your getaway by up to 90 percent. Plus, if you follow our headache-free hacks, it doesn’t have to be as … Read more
This year marks thirty years since Eurostar transported passengers from London to Paris. The first paying passengers used the service to travel through the Channel Tunnel in November 1994. As the British newspaper The Guardian reported at the time: “There were cheers when the £24 million [€28 million] The locomotive glided out of Waterloo, cheers … Read more
The perfect storm of strikes, bad weather and ongoing pandemics impacted train service in 2023 – Alamy No one could have foreseen the disastrously soggy end to 2023 that resulted in a flooded rail tunnel outside London, forcing Eurostar to cancel its services in and out of the city on December 30, affecting an estimated … Read more
Passengers sit and wait for news after being stranded in St Pancras Thousands of train passengers in Britain and Europe have been stranded due to flooding in a tunnel under the River Thames. Operators Southeastern and Eurostar canceled flights to and from London St Pancras on Friday after a major leak near Ebbsfleet International Station … Read more
Passengers in London have been hit by chaos on one of the busiest travel days of the year – with canceled trains from Euston and a last-minute strike by Eurotunnel staff. Tens of thousands of Christmas holidays were said to have been affected by the major disruption on Thursday. All cross-Channel Eurostar services have been … Read more
Head to Strasbourg for the Christmas market – the oldest and largest in France: Getty Board the train at London St Pancras and later that day you could be sipping a Trappist beer in Belgium as you wander the grounds of a fairy tale castle, or cycling through the Loire Valley. All these experiences are … Read more