It rather looks as if our Teutonic friends are behaving in typically high handed fashion!
Much huffing and puffing from DB's Chief Executive, Rüdiger Grube, who claimed on the BBC Today programme yesterday that "safety bureaucracy" was preventing ICE3 trains operating between London and Frankfurt in time for the Olympics.
But what's this?
According to the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority DB hasn't even submitted a request to operate through the Chunnel yet!
Richard Clifton, the head of the UK delegation said “I cannot understand any statement that what is holding up his service is safety procedures relating to the Channel tunnel”.
Clifton claimed that once a request was received it could be dealt with in a couple of months.
Clearly DB is softening up the market for another 'great betrayal' myth when the much trumpeted service fails to start.
Grimsby and Back
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