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Planning a European train trip? Travel expert Rick Steves shares when to book tickets for the best prices, and when ...
In defense of the Chunnel train [“Chunnel Train? Never Again,” Letters, Oct. 19]: The ferry across the English Channel is fun, but if you want to get from London to Paris as easily as possible ...
Our recent European vacation had us start in London for a few days, with onward travel to the Continent. Wouldn’t you know it that on our first day, Eurostar had the tunnel fire and shut down ...
LONDON — The only passenger rail link connecting Britain to the rest of Europe will remain shut through Monday as engineers investigate the mystery behind a glitch that left thousands stranded ...
CALAIS, France--I'm sitting in a train doing something more than 265 million people have done before--enter the Chunnel for a crossing between France and England. But I've got a seat very few of ...
These days, it seems, the buzz in travel circles is all about Europe's ultra-fast rail lines -- those sleek Trains a Grande Vitesse (TGVs) such as the Eurostar Chunnel train that zips under the ...
In 1990, the Chunnel was still being built. It was built from Sangatte, France, ... and by 1993 reduced Shakespeare's moat into a dark blip on a high-speed rail train between Paris and London.
CALAIS, France--I'm sitting in a train doing something more than 265 million people have done before--enter the Chunnel for a crossing between France and England. But I've got a seat very few of ...
With the new 46 miles of high-speed track on the British side, the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel can now whisk you from London to Paris in 2 hours, CHUNNEL TRAIN ADDS SPEED, CUTS ...