Carriages go to Canada_2
17 August 2012
Luxury sleeper carriages worth £120 million that were ordered by British Rail but never used have been sold to VIA Rail of Canada. The 139 carriages, many with air conditioning and showers, were purchased from manufacturer GEC Alsthom in 1992. But Eurostar, which took over the Channel Tunnel services in 1996, decided a night service was not viable and refused to...