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The agreement with the Netherlands was signed after the Brexit vote and is independent of Brexit, so I don't see any reason why Germany couldn't be added in the same way if the will was there. Pretty sure DB got out of Thalys before.

That's exactly the point of the original story.

Indeed. And I am sure I have participated in many of them. The point is that this has been reported in the Times (and subsequently the Mail) and I was asking if anyone had any concrete info to substantiate what they have written, rather than to have another list of fantasy predictions...

Indeed, but it was reported much later that it was back on, when all parties then denied it.

Indeed - that's why I said in the original question "but had they managed to get things more or less under control come the lockdown?"

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/call-to-let-sleeper-trains-use-channel-tunnel-mt7sv0bdk Anyone have more details about this. The same reporter has in the past twice claimed DB were going to start London services, so I take what he writes with a pinch of salt. I cannot find anything...

I agree totally - but I don't want to get into that debate though. The question is, do they have their issues more under control? Just seen the other thread in the Discussion forum is still alive - apologies, I probably should have asked there.

Because you had an orderly queue and then as soon as the staff appeared to check people in, there was a melee as everybody rushed to get registered at once - with no attempt to get the situation under control. The main culprits were tour party leaders. From various comments at the time, this...

When I took it a year ago, the check-in process on the platform was like Fawlty Towers.

Not been following the CS reliability issues for the past year, but had they managed to get things more or less under control come the lockdown? I still see the odd tweet from CS announcing a late departure out of Euston, but have they got the issues with leaking bathrooms, check in and the like...

Recently travelling back from Rotterdam in Business Premier, I bumped into someone I knew on the platform who was travelling Standard Premier. We were both taking the same Eurostar from Rotterdam to Brussels, then de-training to check in at security to get get back on the same train to London...

I think you are about to be pleasantly surprised. You could make an electric Dash 8 now with reasonable range and better batteries are commercialised every year. You could have under 110km of bridge/tunnel via the Isle of Man. Isn't this what HSLs excel at? 100% agree. Why not a barrage...

And once we get a united Ireland and independent Scotland it will pay for the bridge as well.

If the EU put money towards a Dublin - Belfast high speed line, or in 5+ years from now the sea crossing itself, would they mandate standard gauge?

I believe the train manager is qualified to drive the rear section.

I hear pumps are a fairly mature technology. I believe the use them on the tunnel under the English Channel ;) If the shorter legs allowed for a cheaper crossing and the main objective is to connect the Scottish Central Belt to Northern Ireland, then I don't see why it shouldn't be considered...

Does anybody know what the £20bn includes? Least of all BoJo? Work packages for the Brenner Base Tunnel can be seen at https://www.bbt-se.com The Brenner Base Tunnel is far from flat. There is a 185m height difference between north portal and the apex. There are two stretches of 20+ km in the...

The Brenner Base Tunnel currently under constructions is 55km long and costing under €8bn. An Irish Sea tunnel could be 35km, yet we are told the budget for a bridge would be £20bn. Why would you not build a tunnel for a fraction of the cost?

https://twitter.com/TrainManagerJo/status/1210460701883584517?s=20

Couchettes will still exist - there are photos of the couchettes and they are shown in the floor plan of the original post.