Eurostar in trouble
“Not a day goes by without cancellations ,” writes Editor David Haydock.
At the time of writing, four of the operator’s Siemens Velaro e320 sets were regularly out of service, despite the fleet only being introduced some three years earlier.
The sets are reportedly still being ‘debugged’ with equipment unreliable, forcing Eurostar to cancel services or replace e320s at short notice with older e300s. One source told Today’s Railways Europe that passengers on one Eurostar service were even asked to use the toilet prior to boarding, owing to a lack of functioning facilities on the train.
Haydock adds: “Eurostar must be praying that these problems can be sorted out quickly before the summer when it launches another daily train to Amsterdam, stretching the fleet further, and when passenger numbers peak.”
We've read it in: Today’s Railways Europe, June 2019, p5
