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 ...

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.

The start of a new e320 Eurostar train between London and Brussels this weekend has accelerated progression on the so-called “Amsterdam route”. “The preparations for the direct connection ...