With a daily schedule of 14 trains to Paris and ten to Brussels, and tickets starting at little more than €50, passengers can get from one city centre to the next in just two hours.īack to the future: Top trends in railway station design Since its opening in 1994, the Eurostar has become a symbol of fast, comfortable and uncomplicated transnational rail journey.
These and other factors mean that today, 80% of people choose to travel by high-speed trains on journeys of less than two and a half hours, according to the International Union of Railways (UIC). The last selling point is often the sheer convenience of leaving and arriving in a fully connected train station right at the heart of your chosen city, rather than on the outskirts of your destination. The International Transport Forum reports that the average CO 2 emissions of high-speed trains in Europe per passenger/km stand at less than 17g, compared with 153g for planes. What’s more, for those passengers who are conscious of their environmental footprint, research has repeatedly shown that train travel is the least polluting way to cover long distances: a train generates up to ten times less CO 2 than an airplane, according to Rail Europe.
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