When Adrian Quine of Gemini Trains – one of the companies vying to break Eurostar’s stranglehold on cross-Channel rail – asked to see the London depot that Eurostar and its rivals would have to share, he noticed something odd. The huge grey-and-yellow building at Temple Mills near Stratford, the largest rail depot in London, was packed with trains, lined up in rows, empty and still.
“It was the middle of the day, when you’d expect trains to be out on the network carrying passengers,” he says. “We found it full, though several of the trains had no apparent work going on.”
When asked if he thought Eurostar had brought trains in from France to make it look like there was no room to spare, Quine replied that “taking on Eurostar has not been easy”.
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According to Eurostar, trains would have been present at the depot “because they were required to be there as part of normal operations.”
