Eurostar is a totally separate company and is Getlink's biggest customer, running high-speed passenger services through the Channel Tunnel between London and a number of other European cities on the continent, including Paris, Brussels, Lille, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
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You and your pets stay in your vehicle throughout the journey - sit back and relax, it only takes 35 minutes to cross.
But then, why has the Eurostar train company decided to stop the famous service, coveted by many British people? The company points out financial issues caused by the covid-19 pandemic and new logistics related to Brexit.
It's easy to travel from the UK to Germany by train. Take Eurostar from London to Brussels in 2 hours, switch to a high-speed ICE train to Cologne taking 1h57, then take another luxurious ICE train to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg or anywhere in Germany.
This accident of geology was one of the two reasons why the fixed link is a tunnel and not a bridge. The other reason is that the Channel is the busiest seaway in the world, with over 600 shipping movements each day. Any bridge or other structure in the Channel would almost certainly be rammed by a ship in due course.