Post-Brexit checks detain us on the borders of Europe's rail renaissance

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Post-Brexit checks detain us on the borders of Europe's rail renaissance
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Eurostar revealed this week that it is deliberately withholding hundreds of seats on its trains every day because of delays caused by post-Brexit border rules 🚆 RGEHammond says this holding us back from Europe’s rail renaissance

The newly branded Eurostar Group revealed that passport checks were leading to ‘bottlenecks at stations’

Extra border checks – UK travellers must now have their passports stamped by EU frontier officials both ways – are causing problems not just at Eurostar’s base at St Pancras, where morning trains are being capped at just 550 out of 900 seats, but also abroad; trains are leaving Amsterdam Centraal station almost three-quarters empty.

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