Only a few days after the train operator Eurostar announced it had plans to run a service from London to Geneva, a group of experts are already pouring cold water on the idea.
The main problems are that the Eurostar train is too long, the French rail network is too expensive, and Brexit.
The rail experts, Kurt Metz, Peider Trippi and Kaspar Woker, all say it has ‘no chance.’
They were quoted in the Le Temps newspaper.
At 420 meters long, Geneva train station can’t handle them, but there could be a work around, as Pont-Rouge could manage them.
But there would need to be a UK border post, which means a waiting room for at least 600 people.
Then, the train must bypass Paris, as that would involve a change of trains, so it would have to take a longer route to Lille, but the cost of the TGV track means each train would have to have 600 passengers at least, every time.
And border rules means the service has to be non-stop to London, cutting out options for picking up passengers elsewhere.
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