"Bloody EU, promoting international train travel to save the planet," Best For Britain said.
Capacity at London St Pancras is down by one-third because of extra passport checks – meaning fewer seats and higher fares.
Brexit backlog suspends Irish rail freight
21/06/2021
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.
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.
Outgoing Eurostar boss says Brexit has led to reduced capacity, fewer trains and higher prices
27/09/2022
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.
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.
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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.
Senior Tory Simon Hoare suggests ‘putting the hallucinogenics down’ and making the protocol work
Eurostar blames Brexit as 'main factor' in cutting Disneyland Paris trains and St Pancras station delays
27/09/2022
Extra border checks mean St Pancras can't handle as many passengers as it did before Brexit.
Brexit red tape issue concerns for railway
24/02/2021
A LOCAL heritage railway has discovered that the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland is not going full steam ahead post Brexit.
Brussels says offer is 'strictly time-limited'
Silk Road exit down to UK Brexit?
06/12/2021
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.
Ministers say leaving the EU ‘has given the UK a world of future opportunities’. So I have tracked down the travel advantages.
Europe-bound trains won’t stop at Ashford and Ebbsfleet International stations for at least ‘two to three years’.
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.
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.
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.
Note found after attempted sabotage read: 'We will bring this country to its knees if we don't leave'.
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.
Police are investigating attempts to sabotage rail lines after two devices bearing pro-Brexit slogans were planted on train tracks.
British Steel: France in threat to veto sale
31/01/2020
The sale of British Steel to Chinese firm Jingye could be scuppered by French intervention.
UK train operators to pull out of Interrail
07/08/2019
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.
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.
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.