More Eurostar Services Between London And Amsterdam Are On The Way
This article on NL Times is entitled NS, Eurostar To Run 5 Trains Daily Between Netherlands & London; More Sustainable Than Flying, Says NS.
The article contains these points.
- Five trains per day between London and the Netherlands.
- This is a total of 4,500 p-assengers in both directions.
- The train only creates twenty percent of the carbon emissions per passenger journey.
- Currently, twenty-three percent of passengers between London and the Netherlands use rail.
- A fourth train will be added in 2020, with a fifth in 2021.
- Eliminating the Customs check in Brussels when travelling to the UK, should bring Amsterdam to London times to around four hours.
NS or Dutch Railways seem fairly bullish about expanding the services between London and the Netherlands.
I believe that NS are right.
- The British and especially Londoners are very used to taking four hour journeys on a train to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- The British with their poor language skills, don’t consider the Netherlands to be as foreign as Belgium, France and Germany
- The Dutch will surely develop better rail connections from Amsterdam into Northern Germany.
- Will the Dutch persuade Austrian Railways to run NightJet services from Amsterdam to Central Europe?
I also feel that just as people cruise from port-to-port, there will be a parallel development of rail cruising from city-to-city. Surely, Amsterdam would be a place for the cautious to start.
Conclusion
NS seem to be thinking of more than five trains per day and I wouldn’t be surprised to see around ten trains per day before 2030.
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Comment by mauricegreed | December 21, 2019 |
Do they stop at Ebbsfleet International?
Comment by nosnikrapzil | December 22, 2019 |
I suspect some will! Especially, if Transport for London are given the money by Boris or the City of London to extend Crossrail to Ebbsfleet and Gravesend. Many people currently find getting to St Pancras difficult and it has no Crossrail connection. So that is why Crossrail should be extended to Ebbsfleet
Comment by AnonW | December 22, 2019 |
It would also help if they increased the frequency of the Harwich to Hook ferry service and made the Netherlands end a bit quicker and slicker (maybe a direct express bus to join trains a bit closer to Amsterdam, avoiding going into Rotterdam and out again)
Retiming the service to the Netherlands so you can arrive in Amsterdam earlier would also make this more attractive, (if it cant be made quicker and slicker)
Comment by MilesT | December 22, 2019 |