![]() Mr Smith said: “When you’re trying to build up a major route with massive potential, in the face of very strong airline competition, the last thing you want is for it to have to stop for a year and have to start again. ![]() The capacity of trains from Amsterdam is limited due to restrictions on how many passengers can be processed. The operator runs four trains in each direction between London and Amsterdam, with plans to add a fifth service. “So it’s high fares and an artificially limited train service unfortunately, and it is down to Brexit.”Įurostar services to and from Amsterdam are to be suspended as the project to expand the size of the international terminal at Centraal station will involve demolishing existing facilities used to conduct passport and security checks. “It’s ‘we’ll run the trains that we can manage to process through the terminal at St Pancras and we’ll get the maximum yield from those trains’. “Until they’ve tackled that, it’s no longer lots of trains to lots of destinations and low fares. “And they’re really worried that when the Etias and the biometrics (under the EES system) come in for entry to the EU, it’s going to get even worse. He went on: “We have this post-Brexit situation where Eurostar are doubling down on their core service because the terminal capacity at St Pancras has been reduced because of the extra border checks. Rail expert Mark Smith, founder of, said the end of direct services between London and Disneyland Paris means families face having to “struggle from Paris Nord out to Marne-la-Vallee on the RER (commuter train service)”, adding: “It doesn’t half put you off.”
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