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TRANSPORTATION: RAILROAD: PASSENGER :
EUROPE:
Direct Train to Europe
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Direct Train to Europe
By Vincent Dowd BBC World Service
30 May 2015
From the section Magazine
BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32916197
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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?
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Realising you've missed any train is unwelcome but missing the 15:22 from
Marseille Saint-Charles to London Saint Pancras would be bad news indeed.
The next departure would be at least 24 hours away.
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Before breakfast-time five days a week a Eurostar train sets off from
London and arrives six and a half hours later in Marseille. Less than an
hour after that it pulls out again, heading back from Provence to St
Pancras. At 1,237 kilometres (769 miles) it's the longest rail journey you
can make from London to mainland Europe without a change.
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It's only one service a day but Mary Walsh of Eurostar says for the
company it's a big moment. "Probably we've all forgotten how amazing it
seemed in the 1990s getting a train from Waterloo to Paris. If there
weren't so many Brits in love with the South of France it could never work
commercially."
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In fact, a few days ago, getting the train to the UK, only a few
passengers boarded at Marseille. But the Eurostar filled up nicely at
Avignon and Lyon where it stops as it heads north.
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Eurostar has had summer-only services to Avignon before and there's a
winter service to Bourg Saint-Maurice in the French Alps for skiers. But
the new year-round service to Marseille finally delivers one of the big
direct destinations which in the 1990s were talked of but which have been
slow to arrive.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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