Date: 30/05/2015

You can now board a train in London and a few hours later get off by the Mediterranean - the new direct service between St Pancras and Marseille is the furthest passengers have ever been able to go on a train from Britain without getting off. But why, more than 20 years after the Channel Tunnel opened, have direct services to the rest of Europe been so slow arriving? [From Richard Buckby]

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Direct train to Europe

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You can now get a direct train all the way to the Mediterranean from the UK. But not to many other places.