Press Release Summary: Well, just trains actually. The other two forms of transport are coming in for increasing flak over the impact they have on the environment. Trains on the other hand are enjoying a period of renewed popularity as environmental concerns begin to affect consumer travel decisions.
Press Release Body: Well, just trains actually. The other two forms of transport are coming in for increasing flak over the impact they have on the environment. Trains on the other hand are enjoying a period of renewed popularity as environmental concerns begin to affect consumer travel decisions.
Trains are also becoming more relevant, according to a report in the Telegraph this week. A few years ago, trains were useful only in the sense that they could get you around domestically, form one end of the UK to the other.
If you wanted to go abroad you could get the train to the airport or the ferry, but that was about your limit. The advent of the Channel Tunnel changed all that. With a rail link to Paris running direct from London, it is now possible to travel virtually anywhere on the continent by rail, starting from your local station.
A spokesman from train route website Seat61 told the Telegraph recently that people are now using the train to travel all over Europe. \"You\'d think that people would mainly be pootling to France and Belgium properties but for a long time Italy was the most popular destination, followed by Spain then France,\" he said.
The newspaper interviewed a Cheshire couple that own a holiday home in France . Teresa O\'Brien and John White said they are \"very conscious\" of the fact that flying produces more carbon emissions than going by train.
\"We get cheap rail travel in England and France, which is a bargain as long as you book in advance. We try to spend two long holidays there each year, and once we\'re down there we can get around by bus or train and we plan to buy bikes next time,\" added Ms O\'Brien.
From November 14th this year, a new terminal at St Pancras, London will house the Eurostar service. Using a new high-speed line, the train will be able to move directly on the high-speed train lines in Europe, according to the firm .
The service operators claim that at least 20 minutes will be knocked off journey times as a result of the new developments. It promises London to Brussels in a rather exact one hour and 51 minutes, Lille in one hour 20 minutes and Paris in two hours and 15 minutes.
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