On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:45:35AM -0700, Mizter T wrote:
On Apr 5, 10:21=A0pm, "
wrote:
Another issue of course, is that the E* rolling stock is specially
designed to run under the tunnel. IIRC, that is a requirement.

Does DB or NS have such equipment at the moment? If not, then from where
are they going to get it?
A train manufacturer. Any such train could likely be based on the
existing ICE train type, so it wouldn't have to be designed from
scratch.

Eurotunnel have said that they would be happy to waive some of the
restrictions, to the extent that I believe an ICE would "just work".
Unfortunately, the restrictions are part of the Anglo-French treaty
that got the tunnel built in the first place, so it's not up to
Eurotunnel. It's up to the UK and French governments, and I'm
sufficiently cynical to believe that "safety" would be an excellent
way for them to protect the Eurostar monopoly.

Note that Eurostar's largest shareholder (62.5%) is SNCF. SNCF also
owns 35% of Eurostar UK Ltd, which owns 32.5% of Eurostar.

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