Gemini isn't the only train operator eyeing up routes between the UK and Europe. Earlier this year, Virgin revealed its latest plans to take on Eurostar by ordering a dozen new trains to Europe.

If any new operators move in to compete with Eurostar ... to predict until we see the route maps and timetables, but we can draw very rough approximate train times based on existing travel ...

Stratford International in East London is also on the route having opened in 2009, but has never been used by Eurostar and only serves Southeastern trains on the High Speed 1 route to Kent.

said it had attracted a “highly experienced team of rail executives and creative thinkers” who are committed to bring open access services to the cross-channel route. Eurostar has held a ...

thanks to Eurostar services from London St Pancras International. While new direct rail routes from the English capital to Milan, Geneva and Zurich have been floated in recent weeks, nothing has ...

With Eurostar currently the sole provider connecting ... and the continent through the Channel Tunnel is one of the great rail routes. With a whole new generation now choosing trains over planes ...

In recent years several rail operators have revealed plans to compete on the same route – and now yet another Eurostar competitor has thrown its hat into the ring. This one’s called Gemini.