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not a full 16 as the carriages alone are 2m too long (353m platform vs 355m carriages) and once you factor in the 2 class 92's its too long but a 14 carriage reduce length consist would just about fit

website states so don’t think they can avoid compensation but weirdly they show the train arriving into London 15 minutes early, assuming that’s got to be a time conversion typo

the wording about no restaurant between Oulu and Haparanda feels weird, surely it would be better just too say there is no restaurant on this route?

https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/razeni.php?rok=2026&jmeno=&vuz=EIL+373+M1&cislo_vozu=&relace=&najit=Find is a good resource as too what too expect but would have too also check eurostarts website and see if any have been listed as changed trains

eurostar can be very ad-hoc with swapping 373's for 374's if a train is full enough

any hotel they stay in will want ID and that will flag them as being in the UK, booking a ferry needs card payment, also flagging being in the UK. ID for plane will also flag location unless you burn all your ID and pay with cash in hand only to dodgy shops, very hard to hide where you are these...

EU citizens still need a ETA to visit northern Ireland https://discovernorthernireland.com/plan-your-trip/travel-information/electronic-travel-authorisation/ its not a hard boarder but still travelling to NI from ROI without a ETA/Exemption counts as illegal entry too the UK

yea selection bias, only people who will post reviews will be the ones who had negative experiences

have you asked to be re-upgraded as they now have what you ordered?

the GBR livery shown off so far have been on a 80X so i suspect they could choose to launch the Livery on a 800/802 when they take over GWR in December

like the Berliners, i suspect they will replace an ECE with how much other carriers are entering the Hamburg-Copenhagen market makes you wonder what DSB will do with its Talgos now?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78k9ke78ljo European Commission saying Portugal and Italy wont suspend checks and are "in contact with Greece to clarify the situation and recall the existing rules" sounds like the comission is clamping down now they see countires looking to do this

is there any chance the Norrland Night Trains and Norrtag day Trains package could be merged, could enable more optimised operations like combining the Lulea-Kiruna and Lulea-Narvik Day trains into one to say cost as well as add Kiruna too the Stockholm-Narvik Night train when that is...

in theory could get too stockholm using the new timing for NT93 (curtailed to Lulea) with a 22:18 departure at Boden but would never trust 6 minute connection like that in general seems like Stockholm-Helsinki will be easier than Helsinki-Stockholm even if their is a 5-6 hour wait in Lulea

i think they alongside the Corrnish Branches would be good candidates for Tram electrification, 750v DC overhead and a fleet of tram tains like the 399 or 398's could work well for cheap

Just went thru passport check at Brussels, seems like they take fingerprints but also stamp, presumably a half way house for if you entered via EES

There is already a locomotive swap at oulu so swap that one out for one at tornio now the line up there is electrified

As someone who has now experienced the current station at Tornio I hope as part of reopening the old station they move the kolari sleeper too it Reaching the halt really is a pain especially if you have a suitcase and not at all pedestrian accessible, only thing is a single bench out in open

as of Wednesday when i took it too Paris they still were and zero signs that was the last day

Kensington Olympia is Long enough i suppose if you allow the locomotives to be off platform