Eurostar cutting services, jobs as passenger traffic drops by 10%

MGWR

The Local

Eurotunnel, which manages the rail link under the Channel, said on Wednesday that passenger numbers on the Eurostar dropped by 10 percent during the third quarter in which France was hit by a major attack. ...

Eurostar will cut some of its services in December as it brings in new trains, with unions expecting the move to result in 80 job losses. ...

eeguy

Probably has plenty to do with the immigrant crisis in France too, with cancelled services and people walking on the tracks.

end of the road

i'd imagine it will be bye bye all the 373s after all.
the drop in numbers are probably down to a lot of reasons tbh. hopefully they will come back up in time.

munchkin_utd

actually, could this not then be an opportunity to use some of the extra capacity of the new trains to run the planned services to Amsterdam and indeed into Germany ?

cgcsb

My colleague who works in the London office had reason to travel to Paris shortly after the attacks. She makes out she was the only one on the train. That must be a significant source of the problem. It's a great service and it certainly beats air travel between the south east of England and Northern France/BENELUX.

Cookie_Monster

They're not the only ones, DB Freight in the UK are cutting nearly a third of the work force as rail freight has collapsed

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/18/rail-freight-group-db-cargo-planning-nearly-900-uk-job-losses

L1011

Trade to the UK is going to go down the swanee until such point as they are either out of the EU or back out of it. That will have had a major impact in the last 4 months as well as the two main destinations having reduced leisure and non-essential business traffic after the attacks.

DB Freight has specific issues beyond that, though - sectoral dependency.