It will retire its e300s, PBKAs and PBAs but keep its 17 e320 trains. Eight e300s that Alstom provided for the 1994 Channel Tunnel opening are operated by Eurostar on cross-Channel trips to London.

For three decades Eurostar has held a monopoly in running passenger train services through the Channel Tunnel since it opened in 1994. Now Italy's national state-owned railway company has ...

For three decades Eurostar has held a monopoly in running passenger train services through the Channel Tunnel since it opened in 1994. But five companies are now bidding to compete with the ...