London and Paris on a High Speed Train

Once in the Heathrow Airport, at the information station, get a subway map and buy an Express train ticket to the Piccadilly Tube station. Note, there are cheaper transit options, or taxis, but I prefer speed and...

Eurostar Limited Service To Resume Tuesday After Breakdowns

Eurostar rail line will reportedly be resuming some of its services by Tuesday. Many services will resume after French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly urged the rail line to get their systems back up and...

Train Breaks Down Underwater, Strands 90,000

It is a nightmare that I used to dream when living in Alameda California. Sometimes, I took the BART train to San Francisco and the train snaked through a tube, laid like a garden hose under the San Francisco Bay....

Eurostar Train Stranded in Kent: No Heat, Light or Food

A Eurostar Train has become stranded in Kent tonight and there is no heat, light or food on board. The train has become stuck near Ebbsfleet in Kent when the train was coming from Paris to London. Earlier, 2,000 people were stuck on five Eurostar trains for up to 16 hours,...

2000 stuck in Channel Tunnel as cold weather bites

Thank god it is not realated to climate change saga, latest report from UK says that four train with its more than 2000 passengers are stuck in the channel tunnel. Authorities are saying that it is because of bad weather. "Four trains have broken down in the Channel Tunnel...

Welcome to Britain? The shocking frieze which will greet visitors to London's...

An outraged Tory MP is calling for the new public artwork proposed for St. Pancras Station, the Eurostar terminal to be changed. The work shows modern Britain warts and all and some feel it will be a poor greeting...

More problems for Channel Tunnel

The fire is out and trains were running again, an now a Eurostar train has stalled in the Channel Tunnel."A passenger train from London to Paris was halted briefly in the undersea Channel Tunnel linking England...

Eurostar to return to normal service in a week

There was much relief on both sides of the English Channel this weekend as news came that the fire that occured in the tunnel linking Britain to continental Europe did not cause enough damage to close the...

Man loses bag at T5 - offers holiday to anyone who finds it

A BA passenger whose bag was lost on opening day of Heathrow's Terminal 5, is offering a free holiday to anyone who finds it.Sounds like a good deal to me."Michael Birtles, the managing director of European Rail...

Millionaire 'beaten to death by ID thief who raided bank accounts'

"A reclusive millionaire was battered to death in his Hampstead home by a conman who raided his bank accounts, the Old Bailey has heard. Allan Chappelow, 86, was a world expert on playwright George Bernard Shaw but had become "rather eccentric" in his old age, the jury was...

Skinhead Urinating in cup Ad causes stream of questions

What is there really to say? The Brits are losing it? A skinhead is fun? Let me book the next flight to London I can't wait to hang out with some skinheads..."An advert depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating...

Architects Vision a World-Class Derby Railway Station

The expert at converting redundant properties back into beneficial and exciting use, Architect  Derek Latham has set his sites on a world class station in  Derby which is located in the centre of...

In Europe, Drop Plane for Train with 'The Man in Seat 61'...Cut Down on Your...

In case you missed it, November 14 is a milestone for train travel from London to the Continent with the launch of Eurostar service from its new home of St Pancras. Roger Blitz thinks that 'High-speed link may be the dawn of new era for rail'. Shaving off time on...

Eurostar's chunnel vision

With an eclectic blend of 21st Century high-speed travel and the 19th-century gothic architecture of the St Pancras railway station, this Eurostar system will surely  revitalize the romance of railway travel....

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