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Virgin Trains cleared to launch cross-Channel Eurostar competitor

By Josh White

Date: Thursday 30 Oct 2025

(Sharecast News) - Virgin Trains has been cleared to launch high-speed passenger services through the Channel Tunnel, it emerged on Thursday, ending Eurostar's three-decade monopoly on cross-Channel rail travel.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) confirmed that Sir Richard Branson's company would be granted access to the Temple Mills International...

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