Virgin Trains gets green light for channel tunnel route Transport & Infrastructure Virgin Trains has moved a step closer to running train services between London and Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, after the railway watchdog waved through its application to use the line connected London to the channel tunnel. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said on Monday it had given Sir Richard Branson’s train company the [...]
Eurostar menu: We were first to try the new food – was it good? Life&Style As the debate rages about whether it’s okay to drink pints of lager at 5am before boarding a Ryanair flight (how else are you supposed to get through it?), we at City AM turn our thoughts to an altogether more refined method of transport: the Eurostar. Readers of City AM hardly need to be educated [...]
UK’s first high-speed railway HS1 faced cancellation months before Channel Tunnel opening Transport and infrastructure Ministers considered abandoning the High Speed 1 (HS1), the UK’s first high-speed railway that links London to the Channel Tunnel amid financial struggles just months before the cross-channel line was opened by Queen Elizabeth II, City AM can reveal. According to correspondence released by the National Archives, transport minister John MacGregor listed axing the high-speed [...]
Eurostar’s new AI chatbot left customers exposed December 22, 2025 Eurostar’s shiny new AI chatbot was billed as a smarter way of helping customers. But the bot was shipped with old-fashioned security flaws that could have left customers exposed, and for weeks, nobody at the train operator seemed willing to listen. City AM can reveal that multiple security flaws were found in Eurostar’s public-facing AI [...]
Hôtel Dame des Arts: Literary legacy in this Parisian neighbourhood November 25, 2025 Saint-Germain-des-Prés was once Paris’ artistic beating heart and a notorious meeting point for writers, Carys Sharkey checks in to Hôtel Dame des Arts to see how its legacy lives on The neighbourhood: Saint-Germain-des-Prés There’s a scene early on in James Baldwin’s landmark 1956 novel Giovanni’s Room in which David, a young American living in Paris, [...]
Eurotunnel ‘pursuing legal process’ with government over business rates November 20, 2025 The firm behind the Channel Tunnel train will pursue legal action against a UK government agency and pull out of all its future investment in Britain unless plans to triple its business rates bill are aborted. Eurotunnel is poised to scrap its multimillion-pound plans to revive a major freight terminal in east London and cancel [...]
Highest profit in over a decade for London St Pancras Highspeed August 4, 2025 London St Pancras Highspeed, the company which runs the rail line between the capital and the Channel Tunnel, has reported its biggest profit for more than a decade. The business has achieved a pre-tax profit of £136.6m for the 12 months to 31 March, 2025, new accounts filed with Companies House show. The total is [...]
Eurostar ramps up plans to double capacity at London St Pancras July 3, 2025 Eurostar has outlined proposals to double capacity at London St Pancras as it looks to tap growing demand for international rail travel. The cross-channel operator has penned a preliminary deal with London St Pancras Highspeed, formerly HS1, aimed at future proofing the popular hub against overcrowding. A three-part plan includes improving the international area of [...]
Eurostar delays hit thousands after cable theft June 25, 2025 Thousands of Eurostar passengers are facing widespread disruption today after a cable theft near Lille compounded delays already caused by two fatalities on the French high-speed rail line earlier this week. These delays have landed on Glastonbury Festival weekend, with many passengers aiming to get to London today before the highly-anticipated festival begins. The operator [...]
Eurostar to launch direct services from London to Frankfurt and Geneva June 10, 2025 Eurostar has announced plans to launch direct services from London to Germany and Switzerland for the first time. The cross-channel operator is looking to purchase 50 new trains at a cost of £1.7bn to service the routes, which are expected to run from the “early 2030s”. Journey times are expected to last around five hours [...]