{"id":343545,"date":"2025-08-14T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343545\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:51:16","slug":"uk-germany-sign-latest-rail-pact-but-how-close-are-we-to-boarding-a-london-berlin-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343545\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, Germany sign latest rail pact, but how close are we to boarding a London\u2013Berlin train?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany and the UK have signed a joint declaration to explore a direct international rail service through the Channel Tunnel, a step forward from the political pledge made in July\u2019s Kensington Treaty. Transport ministers say they are now \u201ccommitted\u201d to creating a London\u2013Berlin rail link \u2013 but the fine print reveals a very cautious, procedural roadmap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Fnew-routes%2F2025%2F08%2F14%2Fuk-germany-sign-latest-rail-pact-but-how-close-are-we-to-boarding-a-london-berlin-train%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany and the UK have signed a joint declaration to explore a direct international rail service through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2574,42492,802,1537,2000,299,1535,122126,122127,53580,1824,122128,122129,257,122130,664,16,2812],"class_list":["post-343545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-berlin","tag-border-checks","tag-brexit","tag-channel-tunnel","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-eurostar","tag-evolyn","tag-fs","tag-gemini-trains","tag-germany","tag-getlink","tag-international-rail","tag-london","tag-london-st-pancras-highspeed","tag-open-access","tag-uk","tag-virgin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115026505582057066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}