A new passport check system is coming into force later this year.
The Mayor of London and UK rail operators have told ministers that service delays or cuts due to inadequate preparation could harm UK businesses and tourism.
Issues around new Eurostar post-Brexit passport checks must be resolved "as a matter of urgency" ahead of potential "chaos", London's mayor says. / There are plans to bring in biometric border controls at St Pancras International in London in October.
The mayor warned that new biometric border controls threaten to create ‘huge queues’ at St Pancras station.
Sadiq Khan calls on ministers to prevent post-Brexit border checks set to cause Eurostar travel chaos
10/02/2024
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called on ministers to prevent post-Brexit border checks causing Eurostar disruption.
New post-Brexit border controls could result in Eurostar being forced to limit passenger numbers travelling from London St Pancras every day, it has been reported.
Eurostar may cap services due to post-Brexit biometric passport checks, says station owner
04/02/2024
Facilities at St Pancras too ‘inadequate’ to process new checks without ‘hour-long queues’ at peak times, says operator HS1.
Brexit supporting Daily Express mocked after throwing hissy-fit at UK being excluded from EU rail project
27/12/2023
The Daily Express is shocked that the EU has decided to build better infrastructure only in countries which are members of the EU. / The pro-Brexit Daily Express is being brutally mocked after complaining about the fact that the UK is being left out of an EU rail project scheme, designed to connect more major cities across the continent.
CE marking recognition extended “indefinitely” for certain products – what does the future hold for UKCA marking?
17/08/2023
On 1 August 2023, the UK Government announced an “indefinite” extension to the recognition of CE marking for certain products placed on the market in Great Britain.
Eurostar could be forced to stop running London-Amsterdam trains for almost a year in 2024
06/06/2023
The incredible shrinking network: Brexit plus refurbishment could see the number of stations served by the cross-Channel train operator cut from 13 to four.
Belmond’s Venice Simplon-Orient-Express UK services will be cut next year, while Eurostar’s London–Disneyland Paris route will end in June.
One of world's most famous trains will no longer be departing from London, and the operator of the modern-day Orient Express wants to halt its operation in Britain as a result of Brexit.
For nearly a century, the Orient Express symbolised the height of wealth and extravagance in Europe. / Belmond, the company that runs today’s VSOE, has now decided to drop this leg of the route because it has become too difficult to cross the border to Calais, in France, because of Brexit.
The UK leg of the Orient Express has been scrapped due to Brexit border controls, according to a report.
Huddersfield shop gets just six visitors a month as owner says Covid and Brexit killed it
03/02/2023
Nick Tozer has been running his bookshop for over 20 years and has around 26,000 books on sale. / He is slowly building up the mail order side of the business but says Brexit has made it harder to send books to some countries.
Capacity issues caused by post-Brexit border controls and a shortage of border police are forcing Eurostar to leave thousands of seats unsold every day on its high-speed trains from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.
Eurostar’s intentionally empty seats show post-Brexit rules are holding us back from Europe’s rail renaissance
28/01/2023
Trains are leaving Amsterdam Centraal station almost three-quarters empty in an attempt to avoid long queues.
Eurostar has warned that Brexit formalities are threatening its business, although it is holding out hopes that a new digital immigration system will simplify the procedure in due course.
Since the UK left the EU on January 1, 2024, the country has departed from the bloc and its member states in a number of different ways when it comes to air, rail and sea travel.
Cross-Channel train operator Eurostar complained Tuesday that slower post-Brexit passport checks for travellers are forcing it to run some services almost one-third empty.
Hundreds of seats left empty on London-Paris Eurostar trains due to Brexit passport checks
24/01/2023
ondon trains leave Amsterdam at least 78% empty because of constraints on UK border checks. / Thousands of seats are deliberately going unsold on Eurostar trains every day as the cross-Channel train operator struggles with post-Brexit passport controls.
Staff shortages could cause summer travel chaos again – and 40 per cent of industry bosses blame Brexit
11/01/2023
Summer 2023 could spell additional trouble for the UK travel industry, with over half of rail and airline operators worrying about future staffing shortages – and almost 40 per cent blaming Brexit.
Ministers say leaving the EU ‘has given the UK a world of future opportunities’. So I have tracked down the travel advantages.
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.