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Report on Temple Mills depot space due with ORR soon as operators press case to rival Eurostar


05/02/2025 in News
Whereas the UK has not yet delivered a single mile of purely domestic-use high-speed line, such networks are more common in other countries. On August 11 2022, a Eurostar arrives at Rotterdam on the London-Brussels-Rotterdam-Amsterdam route on which services started in 2018. Like Britain, the Netherlands has limited high-speed infrastructure, although it has created a line that runs south from Rotterdam to Antwerp in Belgium. ALAMY.

Whereas the UK has not yet delivered a single mile of purely domestic-use high-speed line, such networks are more common in other countries. On August 11 2022, a Eurostar arrives at Rotterdam on the London-Brussels-Rotterdam-Amsterdam route on which services started in 2018. Like Britain, the Netherlands has limited high-speed infrastructure, although it has created a line that runs south from Rotterdam to Antwerp in Belgium. ALAMY.

An external consultant appointed to examine capacity at Temple Mills International Depot (TMI) is set to report back to the regulator this month.




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