A general strike in Belgium today means that passengers planning to travel from or to the country on Eurostar will be unable to do so as the rail network is to be closed down. The train operator has asked passengers who were planning to travel on 22 December to exchange their tickets for a later [...]

As a result of the volcanic ash cloud which spread from Iceland this week, a number of airlines have been forced to cancel services. This has caused disruption for passengers and has prompted Eurostar to provide additional services over the bank holiday weekend to help travellers reach their destinations.
On Friday 27, an extra train will [...]

Eurostar has reported a surge in the number of people booking tickets to the UK to be part of the Royal Wedding which will see Prince William marry his university sweetheart Kate Middleton. Compared to the same weekend in 2010 bookings are up by 28 per cent. The wedding will take place on 29 April.
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Severe weather continues to cause havoc across much of northern Europe as airports announce delays and cancellations and Eurostar says it expects services to be disrupted through the weekend. Gatwick Airport, the second busiest in the UK, has had to close as workers struggle to clear snow from the runways.
Air France-KLM said it would not [...]

Although Virgin has looked at running international train services in the past, it has said that at the moment it has no plans to challenge Eurostar on high-speed links to Europe. Last week, channel tunnel operators Eurotunnel reportedly said that Virgin could be among a list of companies planning to run services from London to [...]

Airline passengers in the UK and across Europe face having their travel plans disrupted today as France’s air traffic controllers walk out on strike. Around 400 flights have been cancelled to and from Britain and delays are expected as airlines re-route flights to avoid French airspace.
Ryanair said it has had to cancel around 200 scheduled [...]

European rail operator Eurostar is investigating yet another in a long series of cross-channel train breakdowns, which left over 700 passengers in darkness.
The service, which operates from London to Paris, came to a grinding halt with its lights off just south of Ashford in Kent at about 10:45pm last night after what the operator described [...]

Yesterday 18 people were killed when two of the morning commute trains experienced a head-on collision. The accident occurred early in the morning outside of Brussels in a village called Buizingen near to Halle. The harsh snow conditions made it difficult for rescue workers to clear the scene, and routes from the UK to Europe [...]

As temperatures begin to creep above freezing across the U.K. and the rest of Europe transport services try to get back to normal. Eurostar say that at last it is beginning to clear its backlog of passengers and that it is doing its best to find seats for those who have tickets. It says that [...]

The U.K.’s transport secretary has announced government plans to detail its new high speed rail proposals in March next year. Lord Adonis has said that a White Paper would be published illustrating timescales, route proposals and services as well as details on economic, financial and environmental issues. After this has been done he said that [...]