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A new Eurostar route going directly from London to Amsterdam will launch on 4 April, with tickets from as little as £35 one-way...
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  • martindow
    martindow Posts: 10,568 Forumite
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    Unfortunately although the outbound trains will be direct until some time in 2019 the return the journey will be much slower. Passengers will get a train to Brussels where they will need to get off with their luggage to go through customs and then onto another train.
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    Make the most of this through service...
    Come BREXIT - Border controls are going to mean STOP and SEARCHES will be common place !!
  • chattychappy
    chattychappy Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Poor 'ole Eurostar. It's taken 24 years to get this far.

    I remember reading all the blurb when the channel tunnel was proposed. What they never saw coming was the low cost airlines not to mention extra security/immigration concerns. (When Eurostar started, they'd walk down the train checking passports.)
  • richardw
    richardw Posts: 19,459 Forumite
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    The timings don't work for me and the return passport control should be at Amsterdam.
    Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.
  • glider3560
    glider3560 Posts: 4,115 Forumite
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    50Twuncle wrote: »
    Make the most of this through service...
    Come BREXIT - Border controls are going to mean STOP and SEARCHES will be common place !!
    Why? You go through French (i.e. Schengen) immigration and customs in London (or Ebbsfleet) on the outbound. Then go through British immigration and customs in Paris, Brussels, Lyon or wherever.

    It will be no different after Brexit, except passport control might take a little longer and customs rules will be different.
  • glider3560
    glider3560 Posts: 4,115 Forumite
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    richardw wrote: »
    The timings don't work for me
    Same for me. They are forgetting that people need to get to/from London. Even where I am, in the central South not far from London, the 22:10 arrival time at St Pancras is going to make it a very tight connection to make the final train of the day back to my home.
  • powerful_Rogue
    powerful_Rogue Posts: 8,360 Forumite
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    richardw wrote: »
    The timings don't work for me and the return passport control should be at Amsterdam.

    It will, in 2019.
  • redux
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    I saw something a while back about the route possibly being opened up to other providers.

    Thus we might have DB running trains from and to Germany. I wonder how that is getting on.

    Just looked and found this, a test run in 2010, prospect of London-Frankfurt service by end 2013

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/oct/19/german-trains-test-channel-tunnel
  • Doc_N
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    glider3560 wrote: »
    Same for me. They are forgetting that people need to get to/from London. Even where I am, in the central South not far from London, the 22:10 arrival time at St Pancras is going to make it a very tight connection to make the final train of the day back to my home.

    I wonder what happened to the original plans to run straight through to the East Coast Main Line?
  • KeithP
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    Doc_N wrote: »
    I wonder what happened to the original plans to run straight through to the East Coast Main Line?
    Just a dream.

    No business case.
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