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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Eurostar trains forced to run with empty seats due to Brexit passport rules

Passengers board a EuroStar train at St Pancras International train station in London.
Passengers board a Eurostar train at St Pancras International train station in London. Its chief executive has criticised station ‘bottlenecks’. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Peak time Eurostar trains are daily forced to run across the Channel with hundreds of empty seats because border police cannot process passports quick enough.

About 350 out of 900 seats are normally left unsold on the first services between London, Paris and Brussels despite “huge demand” for the greenest form of international travel, Eurostar bosses said.

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