Double decker trains could run to London, according to rolling stock builder Alstom, which has supplied two-deck TGVs to countries like France for many years. The British structure gauge is smaller than on continental Europe and could not accommodate such trains, but HS1 and the international platforms at London St Pancras were built to a more generous profile.

Transport for London has revealed that it no longer uses social media as a way of communicating to passengers, after power cuts caused rail services to be cancelled and many central London stations closed. The power failures have been attributed to a National Grid fault, but TfL was criticised by passenger watchdog London TravelWatch for not making the situation clear to its passengers