Scrapping British gauge trains in France - madness?

[whole diary]

[Electric train]

It's not for the lack of trying on the part of the railway operators, the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) Boarder Agency will not do on train checks (with a few exception) and will not increase the number of boarder posts on the grounds of cost,   DB^» (Deutsche Bahn - German State Railway - about) dropped out of through trains when (if) Eurostar run their though service to Amsterdam it will require the passengers to detrain at Brussels to go through the UK Boarder post.

The Eurostars when they did run on the ECML^▸ (East Coast Main Line) 10 years ago caused no end of pathing problems, their traction system had severely restricted because of the high power demand and as someone mention the pantograph is not fully compatible with Mk3 OLE^▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE").

The only UK maintenance facility is Eurostar's Temple Mills depot which is busy with their own work, the other facility has been fully converted to IEP^▸ (Intercity Express Program / Project. This will offer more capacity on routes, save money, give a consistent and safe service and meet customer requirements. Intended to replace HSTs.) (Northpole) so it would require a depot to be built that would have to have half train jacking road due to articulated nature of the trains.

Cheaper to build new