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NEWS ABOUT: Eurostar

Eurostar stories: 6 news summaries

Wanna Buy the Chunnel? Get it Now From Slash Gordon

Brown mounts $25.3B asset sale, including underwater rail link

Oct 12, 09 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is launching a massive $25.3 billion sell-off of Britain's assets, ranging from student loans to the Chunnel linking England and France, in order to reduce record deficits and maintain public expenditures. As the British election draws nearer, the Labor Party is attempting to burnish... More »

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Gordon Brown • privatization • national debt • Eurostar • Channel Tunnel • public goods • public land

Immigrant Busted Clinging to 186 mph Eurostar

Cops aren't saying how he did it

Apr 27, 09 2:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - An illegal immigrant was nabbed in England clinging to the outside of a Eurostar rail car, reports the Independent. The trains reach speeds of 186 mph. The train originated in Brussels and traveled through France. Police provided no details on how the man survived the risky journey. Immigrants sneaking into... More »

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immigration • Belgium • London • France • England • aliens • Brussels • Eurostar • Britain

Tunnel Fire Halts English Channel Trains

More than 30 passengers evacuated after blaze starts on truck; injuries are minor

Sep 11, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than 30 people were evacuated today when a fire broke out in a truck being transported by train in the tunnel beneath the English Channel, the Times of London reports. Injuries were minor—“smoke inhalation and minor cuts and bruises,” one official said, but all trains have... More »

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train • English Channel • Eurostar • fire

 Eurotunnel Boasts First Profit 

Debt-plagued cross-Channel rail company sees light at the end of the tunnel

Apr 8, 08 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eurotunnel is in the black for the first time since the France-England tunnel opened in 1994, the BBC reports. The company says it has turned the corner after many troubled years, helped by a sweeping debt restructuring plan and the opening of a new high-speed rail link on the British... More »

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London • debt • Paris • train • Eurostar • Channel Tunnel • Eurotunnel

The New English Commute: via the Channel

UK buyers say oui oui to working in London, living in France

Oct 3, 07 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Independent reports on the rise of a new phenomenon of Britons commuting to work in London—from France. Middle-class buyers, priced out of "character" English homes and stuck in cookie-cutter subdivisions, are increasingly purchasing properties in Normandy and other parts of France's north—where prices are as much... More »

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France • Eurostar • Britain • commuting

From Chips to Chez in 135 Minutes

New Eurostar line cuts London-Paris transit time by 20 minutes

Sep 4, 07 7:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Top travel time between London and Paris should be at least 20 minutes faster thanks to track improvements that allowed a Eurostar train to set a record this morning. The test journey from Paris to St. Pancras Station, London, a 306-mile trip, took 2:03:39, the BBC reports. Regular... More »

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London • Europe • 2012 London Olympics • Paris • train • Eurostar

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