only to be taken over by the operator of last resort 😅

If I rewind the clock to last century (!), we would have had Regional & Nightstar services with maintenance depots in cities away from London & what would have been HS1/2 linked up, with enough capacity to let us minions who don’t live East, West or North anywhere near London, to have a railway connection into Europe. We still haven’t a tunnel into Euston for HS2! They won even consider opening Ashford Station to existing Eurostar!

@JonnyT Sure, but Eurostar is not going to lease its trains to a rival. So if anyone else wants to run to London they're going to need trains. That's all.

@JonnyT The line has no capacity issues. It has spare capacity. St Pancras has capacity issues, because Eurostar trains hang around there so long. Checking how/if that could be made more efficient is central to this issue!