Choosing to travel by train for a European holiday will cost an average of four times the cost of flying, according to a major new report from Greenpeace, which has blasted the price difference as “outrageous”.
In some cases there could be 30 times the difference in cost, such as routes between Barcelona and London, with rail operators unable to compete with tickets on sale for as little as £11.10. The campaign group said that shifting the 3.36 million annual flights between the UK capital and Barcelona to rail would save approximately 461,000 tons of harmful greenhouse gases – equivalent to the annual emissions of all the cars in Glasgow.
