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Eurostar faces a rival planning pan-European trains across the UK — not just London
High-speed Uber trains could soon be running from London to Europe — but the dream is to extend services to every corner of the UK.
While other Eurostar rivals such as Italy ’s state-owned railway company, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS Group), have hinted at routes as far south as Milan, Gemini’s sights are set eastward. Under Gemini’s plans, St Pancras and Eurostar would lose the monopoly on cross-Channel services (Picture: Shutterstock / Sergii Figurnyi)‘If you take Rome, for example, I think the time it would take to get from London would be so great that it wouldn’t be commercially viable,’ Mr Quine said. That vision is set to include soft lighting and specially contoured seats, as well as in-seat charging points, high-speed WiFi and fold-out tables that are long enough to comfortably fit a laptop.
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