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Call to let sleeper trains use the Channel tunnel
Going to bed in London and waking up in Barcelona could become an option for green-minded travellers under a rail industry proposal to run sleeper trains through the Channel tunnel.Rail journeys to distant European cities involve a whole day of travelling and changing trains at least once, deterring
www.thetimes.co.uk
Going to bed in London and waking up in Barcelona could become an option for green-minded travellers under a rail industry proposal to run sleeper trains through the Channel tunnel.
Rail journeys to distant European cities involve a whole day of travelling and changing trains at least once, deterring many who would otherwise prefer a low-carbon electric train to flying.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/theme-parks-chessington-zip-world-zoos-adventure/?ilc=nativo
But night trains are being revived in several European countries, including from Paris to Nice and Brussels to Stockholm and Vienna, and rail companies also want international sleepers to serve the UK.
However, to do so economically, they say the stringent safety rules governing the Channel tunnel would need to be relaxed because they currently require very specific and expensive rolling stock.
Anyone have more details about this. The same reporter has in the past twice claimed DB were going to start London services, so I take what he writes with a pinch of salt. I cannot find anything about it from the High Speed Rail Group themselves, but if they are pushing for this then more power to them.