Over the last 10 years, on high-speed rail routes across Europe, budget operators offering cheaper fares have sprung up to challenge incumbents. An EU directive mandating competitive operations on high-speed rail lines, the Channel Tunnel included, came as early as 2010. As Eurostar’s latest annual report says, “the ORR only approved access [to Temple Mills] for light maintenance activities, not heavy maintenance activities”. For Gemini’s Adrian Quine, both St Pancras and Temple Mills are a busted flush. (Trenitalia, too, appears to have given up on Temple Mills, and is building a new depot in France.)