I’ve done the Lausanne -> Paris -> London route a few times and it would be amazing to have a direct one (from Geneva) even if stopping in Paris for lunch is always nice too.
Now make it affordable
Likely Basel the hub from which one can go to London. As they have trains to Paris
How many years have they been talking about this now!?!?!
Sadly, it’s not “planned”. It’s just some companies that won’t be directly running a potential service that say they would like to see it happening. Most technical issues are still to be solved.
Geneva to London via Lille would be a good route, missing out Paris entirely.
If it goes through Paris, STRIKE it as loss on ROI.
They keep saying that but there’s no sign that anything is actually being done to offer this service in the future. I doubt they can even get rolling stock that’s authorized to run in UK/FR/CH + the channel tunnel within 5 years. There’s basically only e320s as the candidate, and no e320 runs on 15kV currently. Which might have been enough to reach the SNCF part of Basel/Geneva stations, but that won’t really work if they want to use other stations deeper into the country to solve the immigration/security issue.
I’m not sure how useful will be in the end. I like using trains, but the combination time+price makes it not worthy. For example, Zürich-Paris is faster and cheaper (even considering waiting time in the airport) than booking with SBB
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I’ve done the Lausanne -> Paris -> London route a few times and it would be amazing to have a direct one (from Geneva) even if stopping in Paris for lunch is always nice too.
Now make it affordable
Likely Basel the hub from which one can go to London. As they have trains to Paris
How many years have they been talking about this now!?!?!
Sadly, it’s not “planned”. It’s just some companies that won’t be directly running a potential service that say they would like to see it happening. Most technical issues are still to be solved.
Geneva to London via Lille would be a good route, missing out Paris entirely.
If it goes through Paris, STRIKE it as loss on ROI.
They keep saying that but there’s no sign that anything is actually being done to offer this service in the future. I doubt they can even get rolling stock that’s authorized to run in UK/FR/CH + the channel tunnel within 5 years. There’s basically only e320s as the candidate, and no e320 runs on 15kV currently. Which might have been enough to reach the SNCF part of Basel/Geneva stations, but that won’t really work if they want to use other stations deeper into the country to solve the immigration/security issue.
I’m not sure how useful will be in the end. I like using trains, but the combination time+price makes it not worthy. For example, Zürich-Paris is faster and cheaper (even considering waiting time in the airport) than booking with SBB
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