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Article: End of the line for Eurostar? Travel dream derailed by the airline revolution and flaws in management structure.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2003
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Byline: ROBERT LEA
WILL Eurostar ever arrive?
When the great cross-Channel European passenger train service opened for business less than nine years ago, we were confidently told that Eurostar would be carrying 17 million passengers a year by 2003.
Of that, more than 12 million a year would be departing from or arriving at Waterloo augmented by other services including those from Scotland, Wales and the English regions. Ah, those heady days when we were led to believe that you would lug your suitcase on to a Eurostar in Edinburgh and the next time you'd look at it would be when you alighted at Paris's Gare du Nord.
In what now seems to ...