Border checks for British travellers introduced after Brexit have caused Eurostar’s peak capacity to drop by 30 per cent.

The head of Eurostar says that even with all border booths manned, queues are growing and the station can only process 1,500 passengers an hour compared with 2,200 in 2019.

Jacques Damas claimed long daily queues at London St Pancras are only being avoided by the company limiting capacity. / Extra Brexit border checks mean the processing rate for passengers at Eurostar’s London station has been cut by nearly a third, according to the cross-Channel rail operator’s boss.

Extra border checks mean St Pancras can't handle as many passengers as it did before Brexit.

Problems faced by Eurostar as a result of the pandemic, Brexit and rising costs have been set out in detail in a letter from outgoing CEO Jacques Damas to the Chair of the UK’s House of Commons Transport Select Committee.

Capacity at London St Pancras is down by one-third because of extra passport checks – meaning fewer seats and higher fares.

Europe-bound trains won’t stop at Ashford and Ebbsfleet International stations for at least ‘two to three years’.

The new Great British Railways logo has been branded “eye-bleedingly awful”.

Surely we can do better than sticking British flag logos onto German-owned, Japanese-made trains?

Be that down to Brexit, suppressed world trade, supply chain issues or the political climate, Britain seems to be falling out of the overland picture, opened with such enthusiasm almost exactly four years ago.

"Bloody EU, promoting international train travel to save the planet," Best For Britain said.

Regular rail freight services between Dublin Port and the intermodal terminal at Ballina in the north-west of Ireland have been suspended. The extraordinary cause is a backlog of cargo in the port, which operators blame on congestion in the wake of Brexit. The matter has been the subject of debate in the Irish parliament, and widely reported in Irish media.

A busy rail freight line that ran cargo directly from Dublin Port to Ballina in Co Mayo for local businesses such as Coca-Cola has been suspended because the port is so clogged up following Brexit.

Since the Brexit, a shift of volumes has been observed to Ireland, and rail is taking the benefit. In Ireland as well as in Europe, seabound cargo is reaching the hinterland by train. And the volumes continue to increase, judging by the number of vessels going out.

Post-Brexit trade disruption and ongoing congestion are causing critical build-ups of containers at UK ports, according to the latest data from Container xChange.

A LOCAL heritage railway has discovered that the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland is not going full steam ahead post Brexit.

Senior Tory Simon Hoare suggests ‘putting the hallucinogenics down’ and making the protocol work

Campaigners say direct links between capitals could significantly reduce carbon emissions.

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The sale of British Steel to Chinese firm Jingye could be scuppered by French intervention.

After an express turnaround, rail guru says: ‘Many, many people young and old will appreciate this for years to come’.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has warned Scots may be priced out of travelling around Europe after the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) announced Britain will be leaving the Interrail and Eurail schemes.

The UK’s train operators are to pull out of the Interrail scheme, which has allowed unlimited train travel across Europe for a fixed price for almost 50 years.

IPPR thinktank rebuts claims that a leftwing Labour government’s hands would be tied by Brussels. / Britain could triple state aid spending to industry without breaching EU rules, according to a study that compares government subsidies to promote economic growth across Europe.

The UK’s second-biggest steel production company has been left in need of an emergency loan because of the failed Brexit negotiations. British Steel, which employs 5,000 people across the UK, is said to be in talks with Whitehall for a £100 million loan after it got frozen out of an EU-wide carbon trading scheme.