Am Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:54:52 UTC, schrieb Roland Perry
auf uk.railway :

but it seems there could *possibly* be some interesting scenarios with
an outside party - say DB - coming in and buying EUKL and then
proceeding to operate a new, separate international service which might
then precipitate the collapse of the tri-national Eurostar collaboration.

Couldn't DB run the equivalent of an open-access operation, alongside a
renewed "franchise" for the UK Eurostar operations?

This is no franchise ....

DB could do what you formulate in your question above, or they could
simply dispend of ICRR and manage the Eurostar traffic on Great
Britain themselves, but sit in the respective boards of Eurostar Group
Ltd, or let this fall back to the international cooperation as before
1999 and negotiate a new setup for the tri-national operation. Or they
could withdraw the EUKL owned Class 373 trainsets completely from the
cross-Channel operation and use them for an Open Access operation from
London to Scotland, for example.

Who knows what is on Mr. Mehdorn's mind...

Cheers,
L.W.

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