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Eurostar expands snowtrain service
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Today's Sunday Times reports that Eurostar will increase the availability of snowtrains in February 2006, with extra trains on the Waterloo-Bourg St Maurice service for three consecutive weekends.

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But still no direct return travel to other French destinations, overnight sleeper services (it's said that Eurostar's intended fleet of sleeper trains was sold), or travel to Switzerland/Austria.

For anyone looking to explore connections to alternative destinations, the independent website seat61.com is very informative.

Any comments on the future of skiing by rail?
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Doing a search on the internet does indeed sugest that the Eurostar sleepers were sold to Canada of all places, I did read somewhere that there is a plan to run trains to the Austrian Tyrol this winter via Brussels unfortunately I can't find the story at the moment.

It's important that the fares are reasonable, at the moment if you get a train in France the fares are really very cheap compared to the UK, unfortunately not all train opperating companies are as reasonable.

If I were trying to run a decent snow train service I think I'd use the Eurostar to Brussels with an onward sleeper train (preferably to the standard of the City Night Line trains) to say Austria and Switzerland, it might be possible to run a train down to Italy as well (there used to be one from Brussels to Milan) but I'm not sure how well Italien ski resorts are linked to their rail network

Cost is a huge factor, this year I'm flying from Southampton to Berne because much as I prefer going by train I can do the flights for just £35 one way, that's about the same as it costs for a long period return ticket to London, last year I went by train to Switzerland, train to London, Eurostar to Paris, one stop on the metro, Sleeper from Paris to Basle, walk through Basle station, train from Basle to Interlaken Ost, then mountain railway to Lauterbrunnen and Wengen, I left home at about 2pm and got to Wengen about 9am the next morning. It's a long trip made worse by long waits at Paris and getting up at 4.45am at Basle, in the dim and distant past it was possible to go from Calais to Interlaken Ost without changing trains, in the not so distant past it was possible to go from Brussels to Spiez (on the Milan train) without changing trains. Sadly at the moment despite the excellent rail networks of Europe getting a train from London to most European ski resorts is not a practicle alternative especially for families lugging kids as well as baggage with them
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