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DB Cargo UK has launched a rail service transporting Corolla hybrid cars manufactured at Toyotas Derby plant in the UK to Valenciennes in France via the Channel Tunnel, returning with Aygo, Yaris and Yaris+ vehicles.
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Adverts came up on my social media timeline promoting Eurostar trains services direct from London's St Pancras station to European cities.
(Permalink) Channel Tunnel EuroStar Scotland  Glasgow Central: A piper welcomes the 'Climate Train' at Glasgow Central on the 30th of October. The service started from Amsterdam and travelled via Rotterdam, Brussels to London St Pancras with the last stage runnin ...  Paris Gare du Nord: Despite the tail lights showing, this Eurostar has just arrived at Gare du Nord from St Pancras on 2nd August 2014 The low platform height allows a dramatic perspective. |
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Tesco, Britain's biggest grocery retailer says it has beaten supply chain issues by increasing its use of rail freight. The giant retailer has told markets it has not stopped yet and intends to increase its use of trains to distribute produce by almost forty per cent. Management has credited investment in rail freight for helping []
(Permalink) Channel Tunnel Inverness Spain Tesco  Bay Horse: Knowing that a single Class 88 can haul the Tesco Express over Shap and Beattock makes the sight of two with two four wheel container wagons all the more incongruous. 88003 'Genesis' and 88007 ...  Aviemore: Scene at Aviemore following a shower of rain on the morning of 13 September 2017. Approaching from the south is DRS 66422 with the 0504 Mossend - Inverness Tesco containers.  Barton and Broughton: On the roll again after waiting in the goods loop just south of the closed Barton and Broughton station. 66419 accelerates a lengthy Tesco container northwards past the old station building on a very ... |
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The iPort Rail terminal in Doncaster has opened facilities enabling goods to clear customs before or after rail transport through the Channel Tunnel, helping shippers to avoid road and port congestion.
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An ambitious plan to take overnight services through the Channel tunnel reflects a growing interest in sustainable travel. It is being hailed as the latest evidence of a new dawn for the European sleeper train. Citing changes in attitude wrought by the two crises of the climate emergency and the Covid pandemic, a new night service in 2022 was announced last week between Brussels and Prague, stopping at Amsterdam, Berlin and Dresden, with tickets expected to cost from 60 one way. But an even more ambitious project could deliver Britons to continental Europe via surely one of the most romantic modes of transport around, Elmer van Buuren, a co-founder of the European Sleeper cooperative, told the Observer.
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EUROPE: The European Parliament has approved temporary measures designed to ensure that rail operations through the Channel Tunnel can continue once the Brexit transition period ends on January 1 2021.
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