Spare capacity at Eurostar’s Temple Mills maintenance depot will be allocated to either a new operator or Eurostar itself, meaning more choice for passengers, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has said.
Actions by train operators against passengers who do not hold a valid ticket are “disproportionate”, according to an inquiry which criticised Britain’s “complex” fares system.
Train operators have been ordered by a regulator to stop misusing a process which removes services from schedules without them being classed as cancelled.
The UK competition watchdog has launched a more in-depth investigation into Hitachi’s proposed purchase of Thales’s rail infrastructure division after warning the deal could lead to higher prices for passengers.
