Eurostar is best known for its route between London and Paris, which annually ferries 280,000 passengers between the UK and French capitals, but the operator is rapidly expanding.
As part of a new batch of services that includes a route from the UK to Germany and Switzerland, Eurostar has just announced a new service from Amsterdam to Geneva via Brussels.
The route could be on the cards from 2030, and the plan is to have it operate multiple times a day. The journey is expected to take around five hours, and the number of trains from the Netherlands to London will also be increased from three to four per day to complement the new route.
Here’s a map of what the new routes will look like.
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This is all part of Eurostar’s €2 billion investment into expand its train fleet by up to 50 trains. Right now, the operator is active in the UK, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany, so a stop in Switzerland will be its sixth country, and the new trains should help supplement this.
Eurostar already welcomes around 19.5 million passengers per year (which increased from 2023 by 5 percent). According to Gwendoline Cazenave, the company is ‘seeing strong demand for train travel across Europe, with customers wanting to go further by rail than ever before’.
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