AT LAST – SOME GOOD NEWS – PLANS BEGIN FOR MORE SPACE IN THE INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURES AREA AT LONDON ST PANCRAS.

Late last year we heard that capacity for passengers departing from the station could be increased. HS1 announced that “a modest amount of new infrastructure would ‘unlock’ most of the constraints currently hampering growth” at St Pancras. Then, back in January HS1(The owners of St Pancras Station and the High-speed line to the Channel Tunnel) announced that they were recruiting a design team for this work. They have now re-named themselves as “London St Pancras Highspeed (LSPH)”. See here from the Architects Journal for further details about setting up the design team: –https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions/competition-launched-for-st-pancras-reconfiguration Last week we heard that LSPH and Getlink (The owners of the Channel Tunnel) have made an agreement to facilitate the expansion of passenger traffic along HS1

GOOD NEWS AT LAST – SPICE comes to LONDON St Pancras International.

In case you wondered, SPICE stands for St Pancras International Capacity Enhancement. This is a project led by HS1(who own the station) to help determine the best way to expand the capacity for international train services serving the station. They plan to do this by producing 3 separate reports in June, July and August this year. This is something that we have been campaigning for in recent years – let’s now hope that the reports actually lead to some concrete action in the not-too-distant future. AND ALSO – IF YOU LIVE IN KENT >>> In case you missed it back in March there was a very informative webinar run by Bring Back Euro Trains at https://bringbackeurotrains.com/, discussing the campaign to

HAS GETLINK FINALLY “Got it” ?

Since the opening of the Channel Tunnel almost 30 years ago, Getlink (Formerly Eurotunnel) may have finally understood the need to make it easier to run more passenger trains through the tunnel. Evolyn, Heuro, Swiss Federal Railways and Virgin all announced last year tentative plans to launch new services via the tunnel. HS1 who own St Pancras International Station and the high-speed line to the tunnel have also stated that they want to increase their income from track access charges paid by train operators. Will this mean that some of the many barriers for new entrants to this market will finally be removed? Getlink plan to double the number of high-speed electric trains using the tunnel during the next 10