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I’m afraid that the logical potential will crash - again! - on the protocol between HMG and the Belgian government regarding immigration controls for Brussels. Please read it, especially article 7. In English...

This is why HMG pushed very hard in the late 1990s for juxtaposed controls, which were established by the following protocol: http://treaties.fco.gov.uk/docs/fullnames/pdf/2002/TS0033.pdf 33Hz - good luck trying to amend them.

No, there is an exit immigration control by the French Police aux Frontières at Marne-la-Vallée. Customs checks by HMRC have always been performed in London, irrespective of the origin of trains - this is not something special to Disney runs. More information...

Again this canard! Would you care to mention who this "rival company" might be?

To all: Please remember that immigration and customs procedures of all transportation using the Channel Tunnel are governed by treaties between the UK, France, and Belgium. Please also remember that the UK government has consistently adopted an inflexible position since the late 1990s, as...

Yes! (Frenchman here) These gates do not eliminate the need for compostage of tickets (when this operation is necessary). Think of them as a platform access control device. They are equipped with barcode/QR-code readers. They can read any support: IATA-sized paper tickets (whether...

"Over my dead body" will shout UKBF.

Quite unlikely for UK-gauge multiple unit stock IMHO (yes there have been cases - locomotives for which the gauge is not an issue, and a batch of coaches to Canada).

As of 2018 : The oldest PSE TGVs (Trainsets 01 and 02, nicknamed "Patrick" and "Sophie") will turn 40 this year (of which 38 years of revenue service and 37 of high-speed running). Patrick and Sophie belong to the 34 trainsets that are still in service. They passed the 10 M km (6,000,000 miles)...

E300s had their 750 V equipment removed 10 years ago anyway...

Indeed, there is no certainty as to the causal chain between these elements. http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/18_gennaio_25/treno-deragliato-pioltello-segrate-206a6db2-01c4-11e8-9ff2-341a2fe0297c.shtml «Questi cedimenti possono avvenire per tanti motivi ma al momento è prematuro...

From a media reporter point of view, a broken section of head at the level of the head-web limit, at one end of a rail segment, is quite aptly described as a “broken rail”, don’t you think?

Italian media reports that RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana - the Italian equivalent of NR) has probably identified the cause of the crash. The train encountered a broken rail several kilometres up the line and several intermediate coaches derailed, causing the resulting disaster when running over...

So there is no "passenger heating/AC" switch in the cab of British rolling stock ?

There is a lovely narrow-gauge railway museum in Sochaczew, approx. 50 km West of Warsaw, and obviously reachable by train (30 minutes) : http://stacjamuzeum.pl/en.mkw_sochaczew.html When I last went (almost 20 years ago, mind you) signs were in Polish only, though. There is another railway...

Even if you do not have many followers, by mentioning CrossCountry (80k), the ORR (8k), Transport Focus (10k) you may hope for the ball to roll. And it's a low-cost, low-energy way to catch attention. Though I do agree that it would be worthwhile to have a thorough media piece on the subject of...

Call them out on Twitter. "You took me to court while I had a perfectly valid ticket, withdrew the prosecution when your incompetence was exposed, and now refuse to cover my losses. Is that how you treat a hardworking, honest fare-paying passenger?"

Trenitalia has another (slow...) IC between Taranto-C. (13:07) and Reggio Calabria-C. (20:05). Operated by a truly vintage ALn 668: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FS_Class_ALn_668 The scenery is breathtaking almost all the way.

True at Est but it is not the case at Saint-Lazare, where odd trains are pushed and even trains pulled. See that picture (taken from the buffers: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB_17000#/media/File:Bb17011_St-Lazare_Feb2010.jpg) Here is a lengthy discussion on the reasons of this oddity...

But I may well be wrong, as this picture shows the loco pulling the odd 18.05 train: https://twitter.com/sausaurj/status/930854134571560960